Why Trauma Informed Management Is Important

Trauma informed management is extremely important. The CDC statistics on abuse and violence in the United States are sobering. We know that one in four children experiences, some sort of maltreatment physical sexual, or emotional abuse. One in four. One in four. We have 329 million Americans right now. That’s a lot. When you start doing the math that is a lot of people who have experienced trauma and we know that some of these statistics are not reported so there’s probably more than just one in four trauma is also commonly known as PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder and for far too long that label was only given to members of the veteran community when in fact people in the civilian world struggle with PTSD as well because of accidents life events, workplace issues.

As leaders and managers, we really need to understand how common trauma is and that a lot of employees may actually have current issues with trauma as well as we need to figure out better ways to support people in the workplace. When people graduate from college or high school, they spend the majority of their waking hours in the workplace so to say that. It’s not our place to do these things, look where else are people going to do that, they’re stuck in a commute trying to go home, take care of their kids, all these different things so I firmly believe that work can provide a lot more resources and can do a lot more for adults because at the end if you have healthier people, you have a healthier company, a healthier culture, better retention healthier people, happier people, and people want to stay. They want to be a part of a culture like that. As opposed to trying to the grass is greener thing going to someplace better.

So, understanding the prevalence of trauma can help you build an incredible culture by taking care of people and acknowledging that. This really is true that these statistics are true so don’t go to a statistics course in college and then not understand these statistics here today that are presented before you as a business manager or leader, this is real life. These are real people. When we look at these numbers and these are people that are probably in your workplace or friends, family members. You name it. Trauma impacts a lot of people.