Author: Graham Lowe

How to maintain a healthy organisation during post-pandemic recovery and beyond

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WEBINAR: **RESCHEDULED** Mon, July 6, 2020 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT / GMT+1

This free, interactive 1 hour webinar provides an organizational lens for looking at how to enable your entire workforce to thrive as you transition out of the pandemic, protecting workers’ physical and mental health. Tim Holden, Business Manager Michael Page and Graham Lowe, workplace consultant and author, will share their collective experience on how healthy organisations can navigate their way through the COVID-19 pandemic to a sustainable future. They will provide practical suggestions for how you can chart a healthy course toward a new normal. The stresses and hardships the pandemic has imposed on individual employees make it essential for decision-makers to design a recovery path that is both health-promoting and sustainable. Anyone in a management, HR or wellness position can benefit from webinar insights about designing a healthy change process, cultivating team resilience, and fostering mutual trust.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS:

  • How a healthy organization takes an integrated, comprehensive approach to employee well-being, business performance and sustainability.
  • Guidelines for how managers can design a healthy change process.
  • How to incorporate team resilience-building into COVID-19 recovery plans.
  • The importance of trust in a healthy, high-performing organization.

Sponsored by Michael Page, one of the world’s leading professional recruitment consultancies.

To register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/562032268532311566

Wood, Well-being and Performance: The Human and Organizational Benefits of Wood Buildings

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My report for Forestry Innovation Investment Ltd. summarizes global research on the health impacts of using wood and natural materials in our buildings.

This newly released report shows how increasing our use of wood and nature-inspired materials can be good for our health. The approach, sometimes referred to as biophilic design, is characterized by abundant sunlight, views to nature and incorporation of natural materials, such as wood, into our buildings. Studies show such design elements are correlated with lower blood pressure, improved performance, and positive neurological, physiological and psychological measures.

The report summarizes the latest scientific research and converging trends on biophilic design. It explores wood’s impact on well-being and human performance when it is a design feature visible to a building’s occupants. Architects, interior designers, researchers, civic leaders, facility managers and anyone interested in developing and supporting healthy and productive learning, working and healing environments can benefit from this latest resource.

View the report here.

HEALTHY EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE RESPONSES TO COVID 19 – Webinar Recording

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Webinar presented by: Dan Bilsker, Merv Gilbert and Graham Lowe, May 1, 2020. Sponsored by the Conference Board of Canada

The webinar recording is posted here. To access the recording, enter your info to “register”, and the registration page will take you to the recorded webinar with a link to the PDF of the slides. 

DESCRIPTION: The COVID-19 pandemic surely is the most daunting organizational challenge managers, HR, wellness and OHS professionals, and employees have ever faced. It has turned day-to-day work practices upside down, threatening the survival of some businesses, and generating pervasive fear and insecurity across the workforce. In this webinar, three workplace experts will discuss how available evidence-based resources, practices and tools can be readily adapted to help organizations and individual employees find their way through this open-ended crisis. The presenters will take a realistic look at what can you do today that will foster the personal and team psychological and social skills needed to position your organization for where you want to be a year from now.

WEBINAR: Strengthening Resilience, Leadership, and Well-Being During and After COVID-19

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K-12 WORKPLACE WELL-BEING WEBINAR SERIES.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 1:00 pm (EST)

In this one-hour webinar, I will discuss individual and organizational resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar is primarily for school district leaders, school principals and vice-principals, and anyone interested in strengthening team and organizational resilience. Topics include: 

  • The features of a healthy organization, especially its culture and inclusive approach to leadership, that can support your workforce now and prepare it for the recovery
  • How resilience is one of the defining characteristics of a healthy organization
  • How resilience is a psychological health and safety skill that can be cultivated within school and school district teams.
  • How resilience is part of a broader set of capabilities called Psychological Capital (PsyCap)
  • The ways that Psychological Capital (PsyCap) supports a transformational leadership style and contributes to K-12 workplace well-being.

For more information and to register:  https://edcansummit.ca/webinar-series.

HEALTHY EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE RESPONSES TO COVID 19

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Webinar presented by: Dan Bilsker, Merv Gilbert and Graham Lowe

Sponsored by the Conference Board of Canada

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 @ 2 P.M. ET

The COVID-19 pandemic surely is the most daunting organizational challenge managers, HR, wellness and OHS professionals, and employees have ever faced. It has turned day-to-day work practices upside down, threatening the survival of some businesses, and generating pervasive fear and insecurity across the workforce. In this webinar, three workplace experts will discuss how available evidence-based resources, practices and tools can be readily adapted to help organizations and individual employees find their way through this open-ended crisis. The presenters will take a realistic look at what can you do today that will foster the personal and team psychological and social skills needed to position your organization for where you want to be a year from now.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS:

  • Learn how to build and maintain organizational and team resilience.
  • Learn how to address the psychological health and safety of workers and workplaces during the current pandemic…and beyond
  • Understand the importance of trust during turbulent times.
  • Understand the coping skills that build resistance to the impact of intense stress.   

Register Here  

How Healthy Organizations Can Prepare Now for Post-Pandemic Recovery

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I will be presenting this free webinar, sponsored by Wellness Works Canada, on April 22, 2020. Noon – 12:45 Eastern Time

DESCRIPTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the economy into a free-fall and left Canadians anxious about their health and financial security. This webinar focuses on how healthy organizations are humanly sustainable, cultivating a healthy and safe workforce as a means to future success and a better world. The evidence-based building blocks and operating principles of a healthy organization offer a strategy for adapting to the pandemic’s ‘new abnormal’, and preparing for the recovery. The webinar will challenge you to answer these questions: Where do your leaders and employees want to be 12 months from now? How can your virtual teams actively shape productive and healthy remote work? What are the key lessons from how your employees, teams, and leaders have adapted to the pandemic, and what are the implications for designing post-pandemic work? What actions today will contribute to a resilient, engaged, and committed workforce post-pandemic?

KEY TAKE-AWAYS:

  • Understand the basic building blocks and operating principles of a healthy organization.
  • Learn how to ensure that virtual ways of working are healthy and productive.
  • Understand the importance of a values-based approach to supporting your workforce.
  • Identify opportunities to adapt post-pandemic work arrangements to workers’ needs.  

To register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIKyTnpOQnS4_6pqmdYJWQ