Author: Graham Lowe

Linking Culture and Performance: How Healthy and Inspiring Work Environments are a Strategic Advantage.
This session will provide a practical understanding of how to build a healthy workplace culture that inspires employees to contribute their best. Culture matters more than ever in today’s ultra-competitive labour market and global knowledge-based economy. Increasingly, organizational success depends on meeting the needs of employees for growth, meaning and balance in work-life with intense market pressures for constant learning, innovation and agility. A healthy and sustainable culture blends people and performance goals.
Presentation and interactive session for the Conference Board of Canada, Joint Councils of HR Executives. Kelowna, BC. May 31, 2007.

Presentation at the Pathways to Business Health Symposium, Vancouver. Sponsored by TRG Group Benefits and Pensions.
For further information: (604) 714-4400 / rveltri@trggroup.com

Keynote presentation at the Canadian Life Insurance Medical Officers’ Association annual conference. May 13-16, 2007. Toronto.

Canadian Policy Research Network’s (CPRN)new research project, 21st Century Job Quality Trends is well underway. As part of the study, CPRN is conducting a series of “webinars” hosted by Graham Lowe (the lead researcher) at the beginning, middle and end of the project. These are virtual roundtables – linking participants from government, labour, the non-profit sector and academics by phone and computer – designed obtain advice on the development of the report and its recommendations.
Graham Lowe’s first webinar presentation can be downloaded below.

Graham Lowe will be making a presentation at the Strategic Capabilities Network in Toronto about how employees become truly inspired when they trust their managers and co-workers. Graham will draw on research by Great Place to Work Institute Canada for its annual Best Workplaces in Canada lists.
The session also will include a panel discussion with managers from three companies on the Best Workplaces in Canada list: Nick Foster, Softchoice; Karen Wensley, Ernst & Young; Leslie Duncan, S.C. Johnson.
For further information: www.scnetwork.ca
The SC Network event is schedule for 7:30 – 10:00 am, April 16, Toronto Board of Trade, downtown Toronto.

This report presents new findings from two national surveys, one of employers and the other of workers, on work-life balance and job stress. The report discusses the implications of these issues for employers and points to actions they can take to improve the quality of work life. Graham Lowe was commissioned by Wilson Banwell Human Solutions to write the report, and it is the first in a series of Human Solutions Reports.
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Workshop sponsored by the Association for Creative Change in Organization Renewal and Development, Toronto.
This interactive workshop will provide Organizational Development (OD) practitioners with a practical understanding of the actions needed to help their organizations make sustainable improvements in the quality of work life. Drawing on the latest thinking – including the cultural practices of organizations on ‘Best Workplaces’ lists compiled by Great Place to Work Institute – participants will be challenged to reflect on: quality of work life trends; the forces shaping these trends; and how leading employers are responding by making quality of work life a strategic focus. Specific issues to be examined include:
– Stress and work-life balance: trade-offs and hidden costs.
– The quest for meaningful work in a healthy environment.
– Skill development and learning in high-intensity workplaces.
– Redefining work-retirement transitions.
– Work values within and across generations.
– Corporate culture, ethics and values as an employment brand.
– Trust, loyalty and commitment as an organizational asset.

Graham Lowe will lead a half-day workshop on the inter-relationship between organizational culture and learning and development. This event is sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Learning & Development and registration is limited to Conference Board of Canada members. Markham, Ontario. Xerox Learning Centre.

This article discusses the key to building a trust-based corporate culture.
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Presentation at "From Evidence to Action: Creating a Highly Engaged BC Public Service." BC Public Service conference, Victoria. This presentation outlines how the BC public service can improve its performance by taking a strategic approach to creating engaging work environments.