Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday May 3rd
1:30pm–5:00pm
Dr. Tim Rutledge W1: Manage The Exit Door: Engage To Retain
This interactive workshop will demonstrate how to create and sustain engaging employment experiences for your key employees. Discover how to keep your key talent so that they will be disinclined to believe that there are better opportunities elsewhere. You got your A-players through the door. Now keep them!
In this session you will learn:
- How employees have redefined loyalty, and how to use it to your advantage
- What workplace engagement is, and how it differs from employee satisfaction
- How to link your employees’ work to organizational mission, vision, and values
- How to be courageous! Recognize and reward performance to build loyalty
About Tim
Author Dr. Tim Rutledge of Getting Engaged: The New Workplace Loyalty will share his innovative ideas on how to retain and engage your high performing staff. Together you’ll explore what progressive managers and organizations do to create engaging employment experiences.
Betty Healey
W2: Me First. If I should Wake Before I Die
Being engaged at work begins by being engaged within oneself. This workshop, a unique offering developed for the Your Workplace Conference, provides you with a half day to put yourself first and step away from the busyness of your life. You will have the opportunity to pause, re-connect with those aspects of yourself that keep you engaged in life and your work and become clear on what is perfect for you in moving forward.
In this session you will learn:
- Learn the importance of ME FIRST and core strategies for keeping yourself engaged in life and work
- Become clear regarding what you want to attract in your life and career
- Learn how to shift clarity into attractive action
About Betty
Betty Healey, M.ED, is an inspiring speaker and award winning author. Her most recent book, is described by readers as, “creating a space to truly find myself”. Known as the roadSIGNS Coach, Betty stays engaged through her work in guiding others on the journey of self-discovery. She is also a regular contributor to Your Workplace magazine.
Judith Plotkin, MSW
W3: Integration: A truly Holistic Approach to Employee Health and Wellness
Employers of choice adopt an integrated and holistic employee heath and wellness model. We intuitively know that working together with the employee’s best interest as our central guiding principle is the way to move toward creating a culture of health and wellness, but so few organizations do this effectively. This session will teach you how to successfully enhance workplace health and safety programming and establish benchmarks for measuring return on investments. Thinking integration and moving toward a culture of health is key!
In this session you will learn:
- Understand mental health and why diagnosis and getting the right treatment is critical.
- Discuss what complicates treatment and return to work in terms of co-morbidity, rates of relapse, and what are the legal and culture needs for accommodation?
- Implement the fully integrated approach with the three organizational levels: Employee Assistance, Disability Management, and Health, Safety and Wellness.
- Learn how to work together to ensure top down buy-in and the creation of an authentic wellness focused culture.
- Discover the ten organizational elements of a psychologically healthy workplace and the impact that work design factors have on the health and well-being of employees and their work performance.
About Judith
Judith Plotkin has over 17 years of experience in health and wellness. She has a track record of developing innovative solutions for organizations across North America and has held senior positions in clinical and professional services, account management and sales leadership in the health and wellness field.
