Tag: Healthy Organizations

How to Create High Quality Jobs and Work Environments

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Workshop facilitated by Graham Lowe at the annual IAPA Conference, Toronto, April 22, 2008. For conference information: www.iapa.ca/conference
Workshop Description: This interactive workshop will guide participants through a step-by-step process for improving the quality of jobs and work environments in their organization. OHS professionals will learn about a comprehensive, evidence-based perspective on job quality and how to apply this in their organization to link workplace health and safety goals to performance and renewal – especially employee engagement and retention. The concepts and tools provided in this workshop will enable participants to identify current opportunities for action on job quality, how to use job quality metrics, and how to build shared responsibility for progress.

Coordinated Action Agenda for Healthy Workplaces and Supporting Evidence

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The Canadian Healthy Workplace Council is calling for a coordinated action agenda to create healthy workplaces.
Recognizing that a critical mass of governments, organizations and workplace health practitioners are pursuing healthy workplace goals, the Council believes that the time is right for a coordinated action agenda to create healthy workplaces. The goals are more integrated public policy and wider diffusion of best practices in workplaces.
This document outlines the Council's action agenda and also includes 5 pages of evidence for healthy workplace action, prepared for the Council by Graham Lowe.
Policy agenda and evidence

Leading the way to a healthier and more productive workplace

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Executive Breakfast presentation. Forum North Health and Safety Conference 2007. Thunder Bay, ON.
In the 21st century, creating healthy workplaces must be a strategic business goal. Healthy workplaces obviously benefit employees, improving their health and wellness, but they also have big pay-offs for employers. Investing in healthy workplaces can significantly reduce health benefit and absenteeism costs. And at a time when many employers are searching for better ways to recruit, develop, retain and use talent, a healthy work environment also directly contributes to these people goals. Creating a truly healthy workplace requires more than a ‘program.’ Above all, it depends on transforming organizational cultures, systems and practices so that health is embedded in how the business operates.
For further information contact Mary Ellen Graham: mgraham@iapa.ca

Building healthy cultures

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Keynote address at Forum North Health and Safety Conference 2007. Thunder Bay, ON. November 7, 2007.
Successful organizations have healthy cultures that all employees help to build. Graham Lowe’s keynote will outline the key ingredients of healthy cultures and evidence of their many benefits. A healthy culture is a the next big step beyond workplace health promotion and wellness programs, but an essential step for employees and managers committed to improving both the quality of work life and performance. Graham’s presentation will offer practical suggestions for how you can create a healthy culture that will energize your workplace – and he will challenge you to put these ideas into practice.
For further information contact Mary Ellen Graham: mgraham@iapa.ca

Linking Culture and Performance

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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.