This is a big subject. There are many things to consider: how you treat your employees, measuring their "temperature"; how to create an ongoing high performance sales and service area that thrives and is not susceptable to this type of intervention; are just a few.
While you get up to speed here are some very quick hits that you should consider.
1. Make sure you have a no solicitation/distribution rule within your organization. Don't let people bring in and leave materials in your work place. This includes internal people and external people. It needs to be the same rules for everyone. Yes this will effect the girl scouts and all the "nice"programs.
2. At worst don't allow solicitation in your workplace and if you just cannot resist keep it restricted to lunch rooms only. Don't allow employees to pass out personal material at desks at any time.(Re-read number one and do that one...)
3. Have a no-access rule for outsiders. Don't let anyone in your company that does not belong there.
4. Don't allow employees in the building that are not working on that day. Employees that are not working do not need to be at your facility.
5. Make sure that you protect and control employee information such as names, numbers and addresses.
6. Don't let employees work other places if you can avoid it. Many companies have restrictions on employees working at other places. The more places they work the more new ideas and challenges they may bring.
7. Be very aware of who you hire. You should do this anyway. Obviously do not discriminate and follow all your rules. We are just suggesting that before you hire a former union steward from the call center down the street you simply consider the new world we may be entering. Make sure you know who you are hiring and do very thorough reference checks.
8. Begin to take a serious and professional look at how you treat your employees, the quality of your supervisors and simply the kind of environment you have in your company.
We can help with this last one. This blog will be a great place to hear how to protect your company and how too make it better.
Here is a little taste of the news today:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/04/union-activists-rally-support-pro-labor/
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14398/
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