Tag: Healthy Organizations

Graham Lowe and Jen Sulkers will offer this session at the Industrial Accident Prevention Association annual conference. Toronto Convention Centre.
Great workplaces are built on trust – the cornerstone of organizational health and performance. This is a key insight from the Great Place to Work® Institute’s research on the fundamentals of great workplaces. High-trust relationships require behaviours that can be learned, mastered, and embedded in an organization’s culture. This session shares lessons about how leading employers create and maintain high-trust cultures, drawing on the best cultural practices of organizations on the Institute’s ‘best workplaces’ lists in Canada, the US and 24 other countries. The session’s goal is to help participants chart their own route to a great workplace.

Creating a healthy and productive organization requires ‘transformational change’ in jobs, workplace culture, organizational systems and management practices. During this session, Dr. Graham Lowe will discuss the guiding principles and tools that lead to effective change in the pursuit of a healthy and high-performance culture.
Event registration is now open. Session will be held at the Executive Inn (Burnaby) on January 25, 2006. More details are available from the BC HRMA at www.bchrma.org or telephone 1-800-665-1961. The brochure is also available for download (see below).
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Graham Lowe will present the keynote address, entitled, "Creating Healthy Organizations", at the Seventh Annual Workplace Wellness in Niagara Conference, to be held at November 23, 2005, at Club Italia in Niagara Falls. For information, contact: workplace.wellness@regional.niagara.on.ca

Like any knolwedge-based, high-performing organization in the private sector, a university must strive for excellence in its people practices, embedding these goals within its overall business plan.
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Keynote presentation to “Leadership 2005: Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness”, Conference sponsored by the Nova Scotia Association of Health Organizations. Halifax, NS.
Description:
Human resources are the weakest link in the performance of the health system. Inadequate attention has been given to the people issues that matter most in providing quality health care – issues like morale, trust, respect, communication, learning and engagement. Health human resource planning still narrowly targets labour shortages, leaving aside equally important work environment challenges. But thinking has started to shift. A growing number of health employers across Canada are recognizing the strategic contributions of healthy workplaces to organizational effectiveness. The bar has started to rise on people practices.
In this keynote, Dr. Lowe will make the case that the long-term sustainability of Nova Scotia’s health system depends on senior managers and boards taking leadership action on healthy workplaces. Dr. Lowe will outline ways that Nova Scotia’s health employers can embrace a simple principle: healthy workplaces enable staff to provide quality care to patients, clients and communities. He will challenge conference participants to develop a shared vision of what a high-quality, healthy workplace looks likes. Examples of state-of-the-art healthy workplace practices will be provided from Canada, the US and Europe. Dr. Lowe will engage participants in a discussion of the steps Nova Scotia health employers will need to take in order to compete with Ontario, Alberta and BC for scarce health human resources. The bottom line: you must make healthy, high-quality workplaces an urgent priority.

The aging workforce and retirement of the Baby Boom Generation has been on the radar screen of senior managers for the last decade. Yet despite knowing this age wave is coming, relatively few organizations are ready to respond with creative human resource management strategies that meet emerging workforce challenges. This workshop builds on the best evidence available about retirement plans, career patterns, and work expectations in a rapidly aging workforce.
The workshop will provide participants with a clear understanding of the practical steps they can take to minimize human capital risks and maximize opportunities in the labour market of 2015 – a labour market that could look very different than today if the emerging trend toward delayed retirement accelerates.
This interactive workshop will provide opportunities for shared learning and active participation. Discussions and practical examples will focus on the following challenges employers face:
-Effective strategies for retaining or recruiting older workers.
-Identifying and meeting learning and development needs of older workers.
-Performance management among older workers.
-Flexible HR policies and programs that meet the needs of older and younger workers.
-How older workers can become coaches and mentors.
-Knowledge management and succession planning.
-Developing the next generation of leaders.
-Age differences in work values and job expectations.

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/
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Keynote presentation at Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association, Conference 2005, 'THE WORKPLACE – OURS TO EMPOWER!' Toronto, May 18, 2005.

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

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