Canary in the Coal Mine: Is Resilience the Wrong Approach?
Workforce sustainability in a hyper-competitive employment paradigm requires HR professionals to think and act differently, especially regarding workplace stress and mental health. Your people are the barometer for the health of your organization; They are the canaries; Your workplace is the metaphorical coal mine. Are you listening to what your employees are saying (or not saying, but are showing) about workplace stress, or are you solely relying on their personal resilience to carry them through?
Learning Objectives:
- Examine the common causes of workplace stress and reflect on the benefits of resilience in dealing with workplace stress.
- Discuss why traditional approaches using personal resilience as the go-to to solution to address workplace stress and mental health are no longer sufficient.
- Understand principles of job design and organizational culture and climate that can be used to address root causes and mitigate workplace stress.
- Share best practices for reducing workplace stress based on the understanding that personal resilience is not, and should not be, the only answer to mitigating workplace stress and promoting positive mental health.
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Shelly Meadows
Shelly is a CHRP, MBA, CPA, and certified psychological H&S advisor with executive-level experience. Shelly leverages her professional expertise and life experience, combined with her passion as a speaker, facilitator, and consultant to have a positive and meaningful impact on organizations and their people so that they can thrive.
Shelly co-founded Navigation Consulting & Training, to support and promote healthy work environments as a business imperative for organizational success through strategic HR consulting, training and development, and workplace harassment investigations. Away from work Shelly enjoys sailing, squash, and random acts of kindness.
Martin Franchi
Martin is a certified corporate wellness specialist and psychological H&S advisor and advocate for healthy work environments and reducing stress in the workplace. With over a decade of experience leading health and safety courses, Martin’s expertise navigating OH&S requirements has been further deepened as a certified joint H&S committee member.
Martin co-founded Navigation Consulting & Training, to support and promote healthy work environments as a business imperative for organizational success through strategic HR consulting, training and development, and workplace harassment investigations. Away from work Martin enjoys cycling, sailing and photography.