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2004 Archive
Long-Term Organizational Health Strategies
Embarking on a strategic approach to a healthier workplace is a long-term investment, but there is a step-by-step approach that you can take.
- Building a foundation for a healthy workplace starts with leadership strategies such as developing healthy workplace policies and improving interpersonal skills of managers and supervisors in your workplace. See CHWW 2002 Archives for more on building this foundation. See also the upcoming Management Forums being hosted by Health, Work & Wellness.
- Last year's "Canada's Healthy Workplace Week" focused on the next step – healthy workplace planning. Please see CHWW 2003 Archives for more on assessing needs, developing a healthy workplace plan and designing programs.
- The third step, and the focus of this year's Long Term Strategies section, is nurturing your organization's greatest asset – your people!
The following links will guide you through developing long-term, successful strategies to enhance the well-being of your people:
1. Making it Easy for People to Provide Ongoing
Input
Creating and sustaining a healthy workplace environment requires
a balance between leadership involvement and employee empowerment.
Click here for ideas on involving employees in changing your workplace
culture for the better!
2. Aligning Your Healthy Workplace and Human
Resources Development Strategies
Creating a clear link between human resource planning and your
healthy workplace strategy helps to align both with the overall
business goals of your organization.
3. Developing a Communications Plan for Your Organization's Health Policies and Strategies Open and continuous communication is a key success factor to healthy workplace development. Check out these tips for developing a communications plan for your organizational health strategy!
4. Overcoming Barriers
What are some of the barriers keeping your organization from becoming
healthier? Click here to learn how
to identify and remove them!
5. Determining Training & Development
Needs
Ensuring that all employees have the appropriate skills to perform
their work is integral to a healthy workplace. Click here for
ideas on determining your training and development needs!
6. Encouraging Employees to Participate in
Workplace Health Matters
Employee participation in promotion, development and implementation
of healthy workplace activities creates excitement and increases
ownership at all levels. Check out the ideas here for involving
employees in your workplace health strategies.
7. Developing a Process to Measure Employee
Satisfaction & Morale
Good evaluation measures provide decision-makers with the data
to be able to assess the effectiveness of healthy workplace strategies.
Click here for some suggestions on
this process.
8.
Recognizing Employee Achievements
Healthy workplaces provide an opportunity for a good balance between
effort and reward. This means understanding what makes employees
feel recognized and implementing measures to reward them for their
efforts.