This article outlines how health care employers can be leaders in creating healthy, humanly sustainable organizations. Doing so will benefit patients, employees and physicians, and society.
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Author: Graham Lowe
How healthy organizations achieve sustainable success
Presentation at the Minister’s Action on Wellness Forum. Alberta Health & Wellness. Edmonton, 3 December 2010.
Creating Sustainable Organizations: How Flexible Work Improves Wellbeing and Performance
American Express Company and FlexPaths, LLC have published a report, Creating Sustainable Organizations, that provides innovative insights to creating an integrated approach to workplace health promotion, flexible work arrangements and employee engagement. Written by Graham Lowe, the report focuses on the link between overall wellbeing of employees, including mental and physical health, work and personal life integration.
Key findings in the report provide new insights into leveraging employee wellness promotion, addressing underlying root causes of wellness and performance, expanding flexible work design, connecting wellbeing and employee engagement and fostering a healthy work culture.
Flexible work design is a substantial component in the report and underscores the importance of giving employees more choice and control over their jobs and work lives, trusting them to deliver and creating responsibility for results. This is a common theme in employee health promotion, work and personal life integration and employee engagement.
For more information on FlexPaths: www.flexemployer.com
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Healthy Organizations Inspire Learning and Collaboration
Feature article in Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) September 29, 2010, newsletter. For more information on CSTD: http://www.cstd.ca/
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Why Healthy Workplaces Make Business Sense
Keynote presentation at workshop on “Health : An Unavoidable Issue for Businesses in 2010”, part of the 2010 Quebec Annual Days of Public Health. Quebec City, November 24, 2010
Leading the Way to a Healthy Organization
Session presentation at 2010 CSTD (Canadian Society for Training and Development) conference. Toronto, 18 November, 2010. For more information: http://www.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?e=391bb272-f6ce-4e62-90bd-bf8363a3eaec
Creating Healthy Organizations
Presentation at the”Research-to-Practice” day. Canadian Society for Training and Development 2010 annual conference. Toronto, November 17, 2010. For more information: http://www.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=391bb272-f6ce-4e62-90bd-bf8363a3eaec
Reducing Stigma: Actions to Achieve Workplace Wellbeing
Presentation at the 5th Annual Mental Health in the Workplace Forum, Rotman School, University of Toronto. 20 October 2010
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Measuring the Patient, Employee and Physician Experience
Presentation at the Ontario Hospital Association Conference on Bill 46, Excellent Care for All Act: Implications for Your Organization’s Quality Agenda. Toronto, 15 October 2010.
Webcasts of all conference presentations are available at the Ontario Hospital Association’s Knowledge Centre (www.oha.com).
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Creating Healthy Organizations
Keynote presentation by Graham Lowe at the “Creating a Healthy Workplace Culture” Symposium. Sponsored by the Peterborough Health At Work Committee. Peterborough Golf & Country Club. Thursday, October 21, 2010. For more information: http://www.pcchu.ca/WH/WH-workplaceculture.html