Five-Factors of Work Well-Being
Promote and nurture well-being at work with five factors built into the design of your operations and your organizational culture.
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Public health, health promotion, health behaviour change and health communication
Guides for Well-Being By Design
Many organizations are looking to find ways to recover and heal their teams. That can only happen when we design for humans. This is the first of a three-part series on design for well-being. I’ve written on this subject before, but this is more practice-oriented. It’s designed for those seeking means to recover and curious
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Organizational Cultures of Well-Being
Organizations large and small are starting to re-assemble back in offices and considering what kind of culture they want to see. Part of this culture work is creating one that supports well-being. What was the culture of your organization like before March 2020? Was it one that had parties for birthdays, team development retreats, or
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Policy Design For Human Behaviour
Policies are meant to guide human behaviour and introduce constraints at a collective level and that means understanding how humans behave. On March 21st the Canadian province of Ontario (where I live) will no longer require people to wear masks while indoors. This is part of a growing trend toward the easing of COVID-related pandemic
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Rehabilitation, Recovery and Healing
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched everything in ways great and small. The mindset we bring to see, feel, and sense will shape how we live with all that is and what might come. In this article, we look at the psychology and strategy of planned healing, rehabilitation, and recovery. Another ‘pandemic winter‘ has brought further
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What Do We Behold With Our Tools?
Algorithms influence our online experience and as that becomes a bigger part of life it has consequences beyond the digital realm. Visit a website and you’re probably no longer surprised to see advertisements for the very thing you were looking at on another site while online shopping. By now, any social media user should have
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16 Days
This date is an auspicious one in Canada and represents one of the greatest opportunities for social innovation and healing in our lifetime. Every year, from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to December 10 (World Human Rights Day), Canadians observe the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. In
The Folly of Foresight
Seeing the road ahead isn’t the same as doing something to get there: it’s a lesson that foresight and strategy aren’t the same things Seeing the future isn’t the same as meeting it with preparation. “These lineups were scary” said one woman who had twice before attempted to get a COVID test at a Toronto-area
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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change
Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing there is a season.- Ecclesiastes 3:1 When I first recalled this biblical quote, I remembered it as everything, not every thing. It’s a subtle, but profound difference and is noted in the song with the
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Survey Says What?
Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.