Assessments

Session 1 Understanding Workplace Culture, Conflict & Health

In this session we introduce a model that we use to assess the cultural and organizational health of a workplace. This model contains 6 separate checklists that help:

• Identify workplace culture

• Identify sources of workplace conflict

• Identify the prevailing conflict management systems        in  place

• Evaluate the systems

• Propose change and determine the effect of that               change on workplace culture and health

Session 2 The Process of Facilitating Workplace Health and Psychological Health & Safety

In accordance with the extensive work of our friend and colleague, Dr. Martin Shain – co-author of the Psychological Health and Safety Standard, we explore a process that we use to engage workplace participants in the success of a Workplace Health Assessment. We explore the principle of "client-centered process design" as we discuss the challenges associated with chartering a health assessment team and delivering an assessment process. This is seen as a crucial part of an ongoing Workplace Restoration.

Session 3 Buidling the Business Case For Workplace Health and Psychological Health & Safety

The most significant barrier in the way of health and fairness in the workplace is that it is still seen as a “nice to have”. In this session we will explore how to make the case that psychological health and safety and fairness are “must haves” for the ultimate success of the organization. We will workshop business plans and strategies to sell health and fairness both internally and externally.

Workplace Restoration

Session 4 The Elements Of Workplace Restoration

These sessions will explore the many different options and models available to practitioners of workplace restoration. We will discuss benefits and challenges with the use of these options and explore their value in participants’ subject workplaces.

This day will be focused on evaluative models for understanding workplace structure. We will introduce the Psychological Health and Safety Standard and explore its potential use as an evaluative model for workplace health. We will also introduce WFI’s Testing Instrument for Fairness Systems and its use to help evaluate the strength of conflict management systems. In the afternoon we will explore methodologies for gaining organizational buy-in to the use of these tools. We will consider power relationships in each subject organization and strategize on how best to achieve commitment to change.

Session 6 Workplace Restoration In Action

Here we share our extensive research into Workplace Restorations and show how the 5 phase model works in different circumstances. We also apply the model to participants subject workplaces for the purposes of experiential learning.