Author: Graham Lowe

Creating a Quality Workplace

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Pre-conference 1-day Workshop, 2005 Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference, Calgary. June 8, 2005.
Overview: Focusing on high-quality work environments, this workshop addresses the underlying causes of some major labour-management problems, ranging from employee stress, injuries, and dissatisfaction to disability claims, grievances and rising health benefit costs. The workshop will describe the ingredients of a high-quality workplace and how unions and employers can collaborate to achieve this goal. Successful change strategies will be outlined, using examples from unionized and non-unionized settings.
For more information phone (403) 220-2877 or visit the 2005 Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference website at www.ucalgary.ca/cted/labourarb/
Workshop description
Workshop description

Leading on the front lines: how managers can build healthy organizations

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Keynote presentation at three Health, Work & Wellness Management Forums.
The Health, Work & Wellness conference will initiate a series of one-day management forums targeted at front-line managers and supervisors, to provide practical, hands-on instruction in what it takes for managers to develop and sustain a healthier workplace culture.
These sessions offer an opportunity for organizations to send teams of managers for coaching on everyday strategies and tools they can use to improve the well-being of their teams and the health of their work environments.
Session participants will learn:
– Ways of managing their own well-being to become more effective leaders
– How to manage more effectively in a rapidly changing environment
– How to create more flexibility and excitement within the teams they manage
– How to improve their management skills.

Schedule for HWW’s one-day Management Forums
Vancouver – May 12, 2005
Ottawa – May 17, 2005
Halifax – May 19, 2005
For more information visit the HWW conference website: www.healthworkandwellness.com/management_forum

Custom-Fit Healthy Workplace Strategies

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Workshop at “Health & Safety Canada 2005”, IAPA (Industrial Accident Prevention Association) Conference and Trade Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, April 4-6, 2005.
Workshop outline: Comprehensive initiatives to create healthier workplaces often falter at the planning or early implementation stages. This workshop will provide practical advice on how to avoid this trap. Using a new ‘action model’ for creating healthier organizations, participants will be actively engaged in identifying the key enabling conditions in their workplace and designing a customized change process based on learning, continuous improvement, and employee involvement.
For more information visit: www.iapa.ca/conference

Workplace Health and Productivity: Reaching the Next Level

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Keynote presentation at “Health & Safety Canada 2005”, IAPA (Industrial Accident Prevention Association) Conference and Trade Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, April 4-6, 2005.
Talk outline: Creating healthy workplaces is an urgent and strategic business goal for employers. Healthy workplaces obviously benefit employees, but they also have big pay-offs for employers, notably reduced health benefit, compensation and absenteeism costs. But there are more compelling reasons to promote healthy work environments. At a time when many employers are searching for ways to better develop and use talent, a healthy workplace also is indispensable for innovation, learning, team work, and change resilience. This is the new model of a healthy and productive organization. However, traditional workplace health promotion programs can’t deliver these results. That’s because creating a healthy and productive work environment requires more than a ‘program.’ Above all, it depends on transforming organizational cultures, systems and practices so that health is embedded in business strategy.
For more information visit: www.iapa.ca/conference