The Healthy Organization: Creating Vibrant Workplaces That Inspire Employees

Presentation by Graham Lowe at the Health System Group’s 30th Anniversary celebration for clients, Calgary, December 4, 2008. Graham’s presentation presents his latest thinking about the ingredients of a healthy organization and how these drive wellbeing and performance.
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How can you create and maintain a safety culture?

Accreditation Canada sponsors a 90 minute webinar by Graham Lowe. 11:00 a.m. (EST), January 15th, 2009. Cost: $99. Who should attend?: Anyone directly involved in a quality or safety initiative through committees or as part of their role as quality managers, HR representatives or workplace health and safety representatives and frontline supervisors and/or managers who care about safety cultures.
To register, visit Accredication Canada's web site at www.accreditation-canada.ca
Further information can be downloaded below.
Webinar description

Health Work & Wellness™ Conference 2008

Health Work & Wellness™ Conference 2008
Moving Forward… Giving Back
October 15th – 18th, 2008
Calgary TELUS Convention Centre
For more information: http://conferences.healthworkandwellness.com/
Conference Theme:
Successful organizations have a few things in common – healthy work cultures, healthy communication, healthy people strategies … and a healthy organizational footprint — from the design of their offices, to developing green spaces, to addressing transportation issues. They take corporate social responsibility seriously and give back in a meaningful way to their communities so that those who work for them can be proud. Success is being redefined. Employees and even shareholders are demanding it. A new breed of organization is emerging – one that understands that profitability and giving back go hand in hand. At a time when retention and recruitment are paramount to global competitiveness, building a sustainable workplace that will leave a legacy becomes crucial

Creating Healthy Organizations: Insights from the Front-lines

Presentation at the Second International Workshop on Work and Intervention Practices. Laval University, August 27th-29th, Quebec City.
In this presentation, I will examine strategies and tactics for implementing changes that build healthy organizations. I draw on my consulting experiences with many organizations that are trying to create healthier work environments. Improvements in working conditions, worker well-being, and productivity are possible if the process of change itself is healthy. Strategies that are organic, incremental and contextualized have a reasonable chance of success. However, change agents at all levels of an organization face significant barriers and must have resilience, determination and patience.
For more information: www.rlt.ulaval.ca/mutationsdutravail/

Getting a grip on stress

Work stress often gets labelled a 21st century epidemic. However, increased employer attention
on creating healthier work environments may be helping to get stress under control.There’s only one way to know whether the stress landscape
is changing: track national trends using best available data, which come from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). The CCHS gauges Canadians’self-perceived levels of work stress. While there has been a slight decline in work stress levels, we lack the data required to know why this is happening and if it is a trend. To fill this gap, Canada needs a new national survey that can monitor stress and related working conditions.
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