Verbal Self-Defense For Workplace Violence

De-escalation, diffusion, Verbal Judo, or “talking someone down", are all names for keeping the potentially violent person from becoming an actual violent person.

Webinar Nov 03 2025, Monday 11:00 AM EDT 75 Minutes Intermediate Level Code: GRC0000258

This program will provide strategies, tactics, and techniques for keeping situations from devolving into dangerous confrontations. We’ll take a quick look into the problem of workplace violence, how often it happens and what is the effect on individuals and organizations when it does. Next, you’ll take a deep dive into the warning signs that someone is at high risk for becoming violent. You'll get an overview and basic understanding of how hostage negotiators, psychiatric professionals, and other professionals gain control of an intense situation and bring about non-violent conclusions.

For every instance of workplace violence that occurs there are many times more cases of rudeness, insults, intimidation, racial slurs and other verbal violence. We all know well adjusted, non-criminals don’t just begin hitting, kicking, stabbing or shooting people. In fact, almost all physical violence starts out as verbal violence. It may begin with insults, threats or be shouting obscenities, and then as anger rises and antagonists build up their anger if their anger, erupt into dangerous attempts to cause real physical harm. So learn to prevent verbal violence from becoming physical violence and you can avoid becoming a statistic.

  • Describe the scope and impact of workplace violence
  • Outline the warning sign of incipient violence
  • Explain the basic concepts in verbal de-escalation
  • List some helpful phraseology to help reduce the chances of physical violence
  • The non-verbal signal you may be missing or sending

Human Resources, Security, customer-facing employees.

SUSAN STRAUSS
SUSAN STRAUSS

Susan Strauss RN Ed.D. is a national and international speaker, trainer, and consultant. Her specialty areas are harassment, discrimination and bullying; organization development, and management/leadership development. Her clients are from healthcare, education, business, law, and government organizations from both the public and private sectors. Susan conducts bullying and harassment investigations, works as an expert witness for harassment and bullying lawsuits, and coaches those managers and employees that need assistance in stopping their harassing or bullying behavior.Dr. Strauss has authored over 30 books, book chapters, and articles, as well as written curriculum and training manuals. Susan has been featured on 20/20, CBS Evening News, and other television and radio programs as well as interviewed for newspaper and journal articles such as the Times of London, Lawyers Weekly, and Harvard Education Newsletter.Susan has presented at international conferences in Botswana, Egypt, Thailand, Israel, Palestine, Bali, Lebanon, and the U.S., and conducted sex discrimination research in Poland. She has consulted with professionals from other countries such as Israel, England, Australia, Canada and St. Maartin. She has her masters in community health and holds a doctorate in organizational leadership.

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