Master Class: Supporting Employee Well-Being


Date and Time

Starts:06/07/2022 10:00 AM

Ends:06/21/2022 12:00 PM

Registration Closes:06/06/2022 12:00 PM

Event Type: Master Class

6 CPD Hour(s)

Location:
Partner's Virtual Platform

Price:

HRPA Members:
$270+Tax
Non-Members:
$325 + Tax
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The pandemic has led more and more organizations to realize that employee well-being is critical to the success of a business. Without healthy and productive employees, many organizations will likely not survive or recuperate their business costs. This is the time for organizations to promote and prioritize mental health in the workplace.

In this Master Class, we will discuss creating safe spaces for conversations with a focus on mental health, how to prevent and address burnout, and how to create a business case for an employee well-being strategy in your workplace. Through sharing the latest data, discussions and activities, we will identify ways that we can support our employees’ well-being and create a key competitive advantage for our organizations.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the characteristics and benefits of a psychologically safe workplace
  • Analyze current workplace practices in light of psychological safety
  • Identify personal and organizational actions to enhance psychological safety within your organization
  • Identify which causes of burnout may be having the greatest impact in your organization
  • Discuss strategies for addressing burnout for leaders and staff
  • Discuss strategies for preventing burnout in our organizations
  • Distinguish between wellness and well-being
  • Identify the return on impact of a well-being strategy
  • Apply insights gathered to identify practical ways that we might support employee well-being in 2022 and beyond

 

Who Should Attend?

  • HR professionals, executives and business leaders
  • Business leaders who are responsible for employee wellbeing, employee engagement, leadership, and policy development

 

Agenda:

Session 1: Creating Safe Spaces for Conversations About Mental Health

(June 07, 2022: 10:00am - 12:00pm) 

YMCA WorkWell’s recent community survey of more than 2,100 working adults found that three out of four people are reporting experiencing burnout sometimes to extremely often. We are also seeing an increase in people reporting unhealthy mental well-being scores and asking for more mental health supports in their workplaces. We need to be able to have conversations about mental health at work, but this is often difficult for a variety of reasons. In this session, we will share practical tips for creating psychologically safe spaces at work and review hot-off-the-press research on how we can facilitate supportive conversations about mental health for ourselves and our employees.

Session 2: Preventing and Addressing Burnout

(June 14, 2022: 10:00am - 12:00pm)

Defined as chronic workplace stress that goes unmanaged, burnout is characterized by exhaustion, disengagement and cynicism. Recovery from burnout is long, estimated to take from six months to two years. We can’t afford to be burning people out! In this session, we will discuss the causes of burnout, how to address it once it’s happened, and - most importantly - how to prevent it.

Session 3: Building the Business Case for Investing in a Well-Being Strategy

(June 21, 2022: 10:00am - 12:00pm)

There are so many demands on our resources and we already have a wellness program; why should we invest further in employee well-being? What is the return on impact? How can we build a business case to advocate for greater investment in our organization? In this session, YMCA WorkWell Executive Director Jim Moss will share research on why well-being is so important to your organization and how you can move from insights to action to impact through a well-being strategy.

 

Registration Difficulties/Questions: Please reach out to the Professional Development team at Professionaldevelopment@hrpa.ca.

Speaker bio(s)
Jim Moss, Executive Director, YMCA WorkWell

Jim Moss is a former gold-medal winning, professional athlete, and has been inducted into four different Halls of Fame for sports and business. He is a top-rated public speaker, was named Canadian Business Magazine’s Innovators of the Year in 2016 and has been profiled in media around the globe including The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.

Jim’s holds a deep understanding and respect for behavioural sciences, data collection, and applied research and pairs that with a unique combination of skills allowing him to communicate with everyone from kindergarten students to CEOs. He has a particular talent for making otherwise complicated subjects simple to understand and approachable. These talents support him on his personal mission to improve people’s health and happiness wherever they work, learn, or play.

Jim Moss is the Executive Director of YMCA WorkWell, an initiative by the YMCA of Three Rivers focused on fostering workplace well-being. YMCA WorkWell works with businesses and organizations across North America helping them collect employee feedback, interpret insights, and create lasting positive changes for their workforce


Kathryn Toth, CHRP, CHRL, Director, Learning & Development

Kate’s passion for YMCA WorkWell – for connecting with leaders and their teams to help them gain the skills they need to foster healthier workplaces – is matched by her qualifications and experience. Kate is all about qualitative data. Armed with a PhD in Health Psychology, MSc in I/O Psychology, and a Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL), she has more than a decade of industry experience as an HR generalist and manager. With her love of helping others learn, Kate brings 14 years of post-secondary teaching experience in the human resources and health fields, and over a decade in research on mental health at work to our team.  

Driven by integrity and growth, Kate’s putting her research and training to good use as she equips leaders and teams through education about workplace well-being, including what it means, how to create it, and, perhaps most importantly, gaining the skills to maintain it.