Canada's Healthy Workplace Month Week 3: Join this week's wellness webinar and community-building workplace challenge
October 13, 2023 - Defence Stories
This week’s Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month theme is “Community” and Defence Team members are invited to participate in the following activities to help build a sense of community in the workplace now, and throughout the year:
Total Health and Wellness Hybrid Fair
On October 25, don’t miss this opportunity to invest in your well-being and come discover how to adopt a healthier lifestyle through the Total Health and Wellness Fair! Learn all about the wellness resources, programs and supports available to the Defence Team.
Where: In person at the Carling Campus Building 5 Atrium, or online through the Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month webpage!
When: In person from 10:30 to 13:30 EST, or virtually any time!
Who: All members of the Defence Team!
Join the wellness webinar: Building Working Relationships
Improving the quality of relationships in the workplace can enhance productivity and reduce conflict.
This session will review three key tools that can build relationships, provide coaching on how to use these tools effectively, and assist participants in developing strategies to address relationship challenges.
In this webinar you will:
- Develop an increased appreciation of the value of strong relationships in the workplace;
- Gain a deeper understanding of what strengthens and what weakens relationships;
- Develop increased self-awareness regarding your contributions to relationships around you; and
- Identify strategies for building stronger working relationships.
English Session
Date: October 17, 2023
Time: 1300 to 1430 ET
Speaker: Lorie Laroche, Social Worker
French Session
Date: October 18, 2023
Time: 1300 to 1430 ET
Speaker: Lorie Laroche, Social Worker
Location: Virtual (Microsoft Teams). A link to the virtual presentation will be provided to registered participants.
All Defence Team members are invited to attend.
Register now! (You are now leaving the Government of Canada website. For internal audiences only)
Join in this week’s Healthy Workplace Challenge
Choose one of the fun and easy challenges you or your team can do this week that can help foster a healthier workplace and improve everyone’s well-being:
Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month (CHWM) provides an opportunity to explore the factors that contribute to a healthy workplace, and to promote practices that help each of us feel valued, safe, and healthy both at work and at home.
Check out the Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month calendar for all the ways you can get involved this month!