This symposium is aimed at assisting human resources professionals in understanding and building psychologically healthy workplaces. Attend this symposium to hear innovative and current strategies from a variety of speakers knowledgeable in the field. Our selection of topics and speakers include the following confirmed sessions.
To view the brochure please click here: Healthy Living Symposium. BCCQ members receive a 15% discount.
8:40 AM to 10:00 AM - Plenary: Inspired Leadership: Turning Passion into Purpose
You will be at your best as a human resources professional and inspired leader when you know your life purpose, vision and values and you are doing work that reflect all of these. Knowing your life purpose, vision and values and doing work that you are passionate about is expressing your spirituality at work. With this self-knowledge, you can help others in your organization to come to know their purpose, vision and values. Employees who have turned their passion into purpose are happy, motivated and fulfilled. When the passion, purpose, vision and values of employees are aligned with organizational purpose, vision and values the organization is healthy, efficient and effective. In this session, learn and experience the basic principles of inspired leadership! For more information, please see www.EllenHayakawa.com
10:15 AM • 12 Noon Choose one of two sessions: 1 Building & Sustaining Psychologically Healthy Workplaces
The session will outline the rationale and process for creating, evaluating and sustaining psychologically healthy workplaces using the example of award-winning companies in BC. The manner in which successful companies address their own challenges and recognize their unique opportunities will be addressed by providing best practice examples of processes and outcomes.
Participants will learn to understand the criteria for identifying and evaluating psychologically healthy workplaces and increase knowledge about the relationship between employee well-being, organizational engagement and productivity. In addition, they will learn how to develop the business case for developing a psychologically healthy workplace within their organizations and gain knowledge of the steps necessary to create and sustain a psychologically healthy workplace within their organization.
10:15 am - 12:00 pm: Choice 2: Why Smart People UnderPerform: Attention, Distraction & Productivity Dr. Anthony Ocana, CEO, HealthSmith Wellness Group. This presentation will discuss how the ever-increasing pace of information in the workplace is unmasking a massive productivity killer - Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). Distractibility,poor memory, irritability, and impulsivity are the end points as increasing time and information demands push susceptible individuals into overload. Participants will learn what ADT is and how it impacts the workplace positively and negatively; how to find and monitor ADT in the workplace; and how to manage employees who have ADT.
12:50 - 1:00 PM:Healthy organizations start with each of us as individuals. Therefore, we have included a number of active relaxation exercises to stretch and get your mind ready for the information provided.
1:00 PM • 2:00 PM:Plenary: Strategies for Creating Healthy Organizations
Dr Lowe’s talk answers the question, “How can we design effective strategies to change workplaces so they become healthier and more productive?” Creating a healthy and productive organization requires “transformational change” in jobs, workplace culture, organizational systems and management practices. Dr, Lowe provides the guiding principles and tools that will help organizational stakeholders design and implement a successful healthy workplace strategy. He will draw on the latest theories, research and case studies to identify change barriers and success factors, with an emphasis on the cultural foundations • values, relationships, and leadership.
2:15 PM • 3:45 PM Choose one of two sessions:
Session 1: Full Presence at Work: How to Manage Information Overload & Remain Engaged
Morale, productivity, relationships with others, and personal satisfaction suffer when people experience any number of continuous workplace distractions. Being fully present at work is about being fully engaged with each task, interaction, or experience in the workplace. This is a fundamental shift away from giving 20% attention to five simultaneous tasks to giving 100% attention to one task or person at a time. Participants will learn to understand the concept & value of full presence as it pertains to work; four key components in developing/teaching full presence and understand the health & productivity benefits of implementing information overload programs in the workplace. Participants will also learn to experience full presence in the workshop itself.
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Session 2: The Resilience Factor TM: How your organization can foster the “resilience” of its people
Compelling evidence has demonstrated that fostering the resilience of your workforce contributes to measurable impact on your company’s business objectives and the bottom line through increased productivity, increased accountability, enhanced teamwork, & the attainment of higher customer service ratings. This presentation will introduce the Hay Group's Resilience Factor TM • a method of positively impacting your organization’s bottom line by understanding the linkage between resilience and success, and taking key steps to boost resilience within your organization.
Among Jane's recent major projects are full benefit plan designs and redesigns for large companies from diverse sectors, including retail, food and consumer packaging, financial and pharmaceutical. Jane is a University of Toronto graduate, and has earned both FLMI and CLU designations. She is an instructor in the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist curriculum, a faculty member for WorldAtWork, a published author and a frequent speaker on the subject of matching benefit plan design with organizational goals and objectives.
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