Consulting & Risk Management Partner

The Center for Aggression Management continues to evolve its very relationship with
Aon Corporation, the largest insurance broker in the world

The Center for Aggression Management can effectively measure and diagnose human aggression, thereby saving employers millions of dollars in productivity as well as making their workplace safer.

Aon looks to both insure against acts of violence and prevent them from happening in the first place – a strategy aimed at reducing overall claims.

"We have not had the capability, before Center for Aggression Management, to identify and prevent acts of aggression in a workplace," said Bill Harrison, Managing Director of Aon's Crisis Management division. "In our opinion it's much more useful than coming in after the fact."
 

The symptoms: employee and customer friction, absenteeism, decreased productivity, increased employee and client complaints, higher turnover, lower quality of effort, presenteeism, loss of morale and motivation, lack of creativity and innovation, loss of loyalty to the organization.

The diagnosis: workplace aggression.

The cure: Aggression Management® Solutions.  Aggression in our organizations may seem like an intangible problem—but it has very tangible consequences for the organization it afflicts. In fact, the United Kingdom’s Royal Mail, has identified that the cost of “employee friction” (i.e. aggression) exceeds £247,000,000 per year.  When there are aggressors in the workplace no one wants to be there.  This causes tardiness, then absenteeism and finally turnover; all of which profoundly effect productivity. 

The Center for Aggression Management®, has developed the means to identify, measure and manage aggression before conflict occurs so that it can be prevented.

Why choose Aggression Management^®?

If our responsibility is the safety of those in our organization, isn’t it essential that we prevent hazard as opposed to waiting to react to it? If all we intend to do is to react to aggression we will, eventually, get someone who does not communicate verbally but instead communicates physically and "out of nowhere" strikes out; still worse, the aggressor may have a weapon and may use it. Since there are individuals who convey their conflict with an expression of violence, it becomes essential to prevent "conflict" if one truly intends to prevent violence. You can't have one without the other.  The focus must be on preventing conflict not just violence.

Current methods for preventing aggression are not working! As we look at conventional means of managing aggression, we see topics like Conflict Resolution, and Anger Management. Conflict Resolution presupposes conflict; you are already reacting; you are already past any opportunity of preventing aggression. The problem with Anger Management is that we all measure anger differently and therefore experience and express it differently. There is no common denominator for us to measure anger; it does not meet the "if I can measure it, I can manage it" test.

Aggression Management^® teaches you how to identify the emergence of aggression before it becomes conflict, so that you can engage and prevent aggression in the first place. You will also learn how to measure aggression.

The Aggression Continuum™ illustrates aggression from its genesis (stress) through its ultimate result (violence). One of its means of measurement is accomplished through monitoring the effects of increased adrenaline on the heart rate and the "non-verbal leakage" or body language and behavior that it produces both in an individual we are observing, as well as in ourselves thereby allowing a metrics-base means to manage this aggression. The emergence of aggression occurs both chemically (Primal Aggression Continuum™) and cognitively (Cognitive Aggression Continuum™). You will learn to track both processes in order to present a clear understanding of how to identify the emergence of aggression, foresee the possibility of conflict, thereby gain the ability to engage and prevent conflict from occurring in others, and in ourselves. Diminish aggression and you diminish the tardiness, absenteeism, passive aggressive behavior and turnover cause by that aggression.  Aggression Management^® Solutions can generate an excellent EVA^®.

Estimated Economic Value Added (EVA^â)

Estimated Economic Value Added is a contemporary method of identifying the true value of a product or service.  EVA presumes that benefits rarely completely solve a problem and therefore should be discounted, and invested costs (Capital Deployed) will be paid for with a minimum prudent interest and possible lost opportunity costs.  Capital Deployed is based upon full utilization of Aggression Management® Solutions and meant to illustrate maximum costs for a particular sized employment.  If you would like to see an illustration of our positive EVA, email us or contact us at 407-718-5637.

Meanwhile, illustrated below is the cost of aggression in one surveyed organization.  When asked to declare the number of hours lost due to aggressive behavior (late coming into work, early leaving work, taking additional time over lunch and calling in sick), employees lost time added up to 4.8 days of lost productivity (absenteeism) per employee per year.  This survey did not take into account the cost of turnover, presenteeism (an employee is present but distracted), passive aggressive behavior, increased employee and client complaints, lower quality of effort, loss of morale and motivation, lack of creativity and innovation, loss of loyalty to the organization.  These costs associated with absenteeism and tardiness often go unnoticed due to supervisors and managers ordering employees to "work it out among themselves" without any further documentation.

Diminished aggression in the workplace not only saves lives but also yields greater productivity. Imagine a future where productivity is significantly enhanced and employee safety and satisfaction are at an all time high.  All our Aggression Management® Solutions are fully guaranteed, so please take the time to study the details provide on this web site.  Take the first step to an aggression-free workplace, review the comments made by other workshop participants below and/or call us at 407-718-5637.

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Read what managers and supervisors are saying about Aggression Management® Skills and how they are using these skills to prevent aggression and increase productivity. 

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Aon Aggression Management Solutions, Official Information Sheet

Identifying a Terrorist  and  Aggression Management Identification System

Labor and Management Conflict

Sport, Leisure & Entertainment Industries

Aggression in Our Schools

To learn more, contact John Byrnes:

Center for Aggression Management
P.O. Box 2395, Winter Park, FL 32790
Phone: 407-718-5637
Email: JohnByrnes@AggressionManagement.com
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