Member Care

Taking a trauma-informed approach to investigations helps protect all participants—especially those harmed—while improving the quality and fairness of the investigative process.

If your team seems unmotivated, resistant to change, or disconnected from your mission, you’re not alone. This blog explores The Great Detachment—why employees are mentally checking out, what it’s costing your organization, and how leaders can rebuild trust and engagement. If you want to stop spinning your wheels and start re-engaging your workforce, this is where to begin.

This review of the book "When Narcissism Comes to Church," by Chuck DeGroat, discusses how leaders can reflect on narcissistic tendencies both within themselves and their congregation as a whole, and provides hope for healing.

Workplaces where information is so tightly controlled that people don’t have what they need to do their jobs are going to be inefficient and probably toxic. Leaders who turn on people who offer constructive criticism are not going to hear much feedback. So why is that a problem?

While bullying and harassment may seem similar at first glance, in spite of a few commonalities, each has a very different definition and legal significance in the U.S. workplace.

We’d like to introduce Kim Levings, a management and leadership coach. What does this have to do with law? Most legal problems are personal—or personnel—problems gone to seed. Read Kim’s advice on how to deal with the weeds in your firm.

A multi-chapter resource by Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq. and Dr. Brent Lindquist about some ways to tell when you, a colleague, or an employee might need some additional help (such as counseling), and how that could have implications in the workplace.

A conversation between Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq. and Dr. Brent Lindquist about the issue of risk management and the vulnerability of missions for where their people are, and what they do.

Recovered memory therapy continues to be a controversial topic, with experts debating about whether it is valid. As a legal matter, this controversy has slowly spilled over into an increased risk of liability for the therapist who chooses to use the technique. More and more states are holding that parents of children who recover memories of sexual abuse can sue the child’s therapist because the therapist has helped to create false allegations against them. Michigan is the latest jurisdiction to affirm the right of a child’s parent to sue the child’s therapist.

A multi-chapter resource by Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq. and Dr. Brent Lindquist about assessment, overseas behavior and treatment, and contexts where you find cross-cultural and organizational cultural issues.