Facilitate an effective team discussion about addressing and improving growth and development in your workplace. The intended outcome is to create a practical and cost-effective action plan that works for your team.
Growth and development
In a work environment with positive growth and development, employees receive ongoing encouragement and support to enhance interpersonal, emotional and job-related skills.
In an organization with positive growth and development, employees might say:
- My supervisor supports my personal growth.
- My supervisor is open to my ideas for taking on new opportunities at work.
- I have the opportunity to take on new challenges.
- My employer values employees’ ongoing personal development.
- I am provided with the necessary training to perform my job well.
Creating awareness: A team discussion
Engage your entire team in reviewing the factors that impact psychological health and safety in your workplace. This approach is recommended by the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. By doing this, you build awareness of the responsibility of each employee to contribute to a positive workplace culture. You also get their involvement in developing and being part of the solution.
Creating change: Facilitating policy development
This session builds on employee ideas developed in the Creating awareness workshop. The next step is to engage decision makers in reviewing employee suggestions against evidence- or practice-based approaches. The objective is to modify or create policies and procedures that improve growth and development for your organization.
Evidence-based actions for growth and development
Suggested actions are based on research or practice that can improve each psychosocial factor shown. In most cases, free resources are provided to help you move forward, with or without additional funding.
Each of the psychosocial factors identified in Guarding Minds at Work and the National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace have similar resources that can be found in the On the agenda workshop series.