CHRP CPD Hours: 3.0

HR Competency: Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace

The Coping Crisis: Building Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

Progressive employers are now adopting a philosophy of shared accountability among employers and employees - working together towards a psychologically safe workplace.  Employees can, and do, have the primary role in maximizing an organization's productivity and success.  But what is that role, and how can employers provide the tools and support needed to ensure a mentally healthy workplace for everyone?

During this session, Dr. Bill Howatt will discuss The Copying Crisis.  He will explore the question of whether we face a mental health crisis, or a coping crisis, and how employees get into a coping crisis.  Bill will also discuss the pathways out of a coping crisis, with a focus on action plans for both the employer and the employee.

Learning Objectives

• What are copying skills and why they matter.
• Why coping skills are a lead indicator for predicting health and engagement.
• How coping skills influence discretionary effort.
• What employees can do to evolve their coping skills.
• How employers can create shared accountability and action plans.

About the Facilitator

Dr. Bill Howatt, Chief Research and Development Officer for Workforce Productivity, Morneau Shepell, has over 25 years' experience in strategic HR, mental health and addictions, and leadership.  He has published numerous books and articles, such as: The Coping Crisis, Pathways to Coping, TalOp: Taking the Guesswork Out of Management, the Howatt HR Elements Series, the Wiley Series on Addictions, Human Services Counsellor's Toolbox, The Addiction Counsellor's Desk Reference, and The Addiction Counsellor's Toolbox.  He is the author of Beyond Engagement: the Employee Care Advantage and the creator of the Quality of Work Life (QWL) methodology and survey.  He is the co-author of behavioural engineering, a strategy aligned to the QWL to provide guidance on how to lead employees to facilitate behavioural change.

He is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail and is the driver behind the Your Life at Work initiative, where there is a mini version of the QWL that has been explored by over 10,000 Canadians.

Bill Howatt is Ph.D., Ed.D., Post Doctorate Behavioural Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour, RTC, RSW, ICADC.

Bill is also a highly rated presenter for HRANS having facilitated sessions as part of our annual conference and ongoing professional development program, with excellent participant feedback each time.

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