Your valuable resource for personal and workplace issues
This is the EAP for State of Washington employees, many other contracting governmental entities, and family members.
The State of Washington EAP is a valuable resource for assisting management with individual and organizational concerns. As a manager, your job is to bring out the best in your employees. But employees are people, and people can suffer from problems that hinder their performance in the workplace. Getting expert help to assist workers in solving their personal problems is simply good business.
The state's internal EAP consultants are available to provide confidential and expert consultation to management working with employees having problems affecting their work. Consultation occurs in a variety of areas including:
- Effectively talking with employees about their performance problems.
- Assisting with ideas to reinforce acceptable behavior and performance.
- Discussing strategies for difficult communications with employees.
- Managing conflict among employees and in the workplace.
- Assistance in managing threats of violence.
- Response to critical incidents including: sudden death of a coworker; homicide, accidents, earthquakes, and other sudden and unexpected terrible events that affect the workplace.
EAP's compassionate professionals have many years of experience in helping managers like you get your employee's personal or workplace problems resolved so they are once again productive.
EAP services are...
Confidential
Accessible
Respectful
Effective
Solution-focused
The use of the EAP is voluntary for yourselves and for your employees. Supervisors cannot force employees to seek assistance. But the process of recognizing problem situations and responding with an EAP referral is a normal and expected supervisory task. The supervisor's primary responsibility is to maintain a productive work environment and to promote employee development. Referral to EAP helps accomplish both.
Remember, the sooner you act, the greater the chance for success. The Employee Assistance Program.