Postal Service signs contract with Anger Management Firm
George Anderson is a trained psychotherapist and founder and president of Anderson & Anderson, an anger management firm with an office in Lawndale California. Anderson served as an adviser for the film 'Anger Management.'
Anderson's classes typically teach participants how to recognize their anger and then use relaxation methods to calm themselves. Employees referred to Anderson usually attend 10 counseling sessions, often as a contingent requirement for continued employment.
Depending on the situation, sometimes the company covers the expense and sometimes it comes out of the employee's pocket, Anderson said.
Another of Anderson's primary functions is training facilitators nationwide who can either enact programs within their corporations or at consulting services that contract with companies.
The U.S. Postal Service , frequently the butt of many workplace anger jokes and a few outbursts of workplace-related violence, recently decided to train its in-house facilitators and disperse them to facilities nationwide.
An official with the Postal Service's National Center for Employee Development in Norman, Okla., confirmed that a contract had been signed with Anderson's firm, but would not comment on the record, saying that the program was in its trial phase.
Once an initial batch of facilitators had been trained, the Postal Service would evaluate the program's effectiveness, the official said. He noted there was no specific push for the implementation of the course, saying only that like any large corporation, the Postal Service has many employees who deal with stressful situations." (source: Daily Breeze)
United States Postal Services
National Center For Employee Development
2701 E. Imhoff Road
Norman, Oklahoma 73071.