Be prepared to be excited, and feel empowered to become an effective change agent or “Dragon Slayer” in your facility.

• P.O.’d, B.O.’d and O.D.’d
• The pressures on the industry
• The new clientele and their family
• The Underwear Phenomenon
• The power of negative staff and ineffective managers

• Strengthening staff/manager and departmental relationships
• Effective problem solving and communications strategies
• Effectively doing more with less
• Becoming the “Dragon Slayer” or change agent

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff, Managers

Schedule:

1 1/2 hours, 3 hours, Full-day

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Examine the pressures placed on the community worker with the older client and their family. Looking at what is happening and what is needed to do the job effectively.

• Limits of working in a person’s home
• changing responsibilities

• Responses to disability
• Meaning and effect of grieving

• Roadblocks to logic
• Rationale of blaming others

• With the family:
  • Enhancing communication pattern
  • Art of predicting
• With the client:
  • Dealing with grief
  • Directing towards independence
  • For self:
    • Ways to detach
    • Blowing your own horn

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff

Schedule:

Full-day

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Sacrifice, fatigue and endless hours define just another day in healthcare. Explore influences that motivate, focus and refresh!

• Explore why caregivers give to others beyond their personal wellness
• Explore/reexamine your list of “Have To’s” – those tasks and commitments that you feel “obliged” to do although they challenge healthy balance
• Examine where you fit on the team.
• Stay one step ahead of unhealthy attitudes – yours, clients and coworkers
• Create daily opportunities for wellness, laughter and spontaneity
• Develop your ability to experience the “gift of giving” through all the red tape

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff, Management

Schedule:

1 1/2 hour, 3 hour, Full-Day

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Facing the challenges of dealing with constant demands, changing situations, job pressures and then the reality of a client’s death.

• Identify sources of stress and their impact
• Examine myths that have developed around death
• Recognize the fears associated with death
• Review the death sequence
• Identify different personalities and how they respond to death
• Develop supports for family and staff
• Utilize strategies for self-help and recovery

Target:

Front-Line Staff, Registered Staff, Managers

Schedule:

1 hour, 1.5 hours, 3 hour (repeated multiple times throughout the day)

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Learn to laugh your stress away! Experience laughter’s impact physically as it reduces stress, releases endorphins, and lowers blood pressure.

• What is value-based laughter?
• Learn facts about laughter
• Learn to laugh and reduce your personal stress
• Explore the benefits of laughter
• Participate in laughter exercises
• Change the way that you look at life!

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff, Management

Schedule:

1/2 hour, 3 hour

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Note: This workshop is provided by Patricia Butcher.

A reminder why we choose our career paths and how to live a vocation. This workshop inspires and re-energizes participants.

• Walk in your Mission
• Balance your Mission focus with your life
• Learn time management coping strategies
• Explore a variety of employee personalities
• Learn proactive steps for moving forward
• Remember why you continue to give the “Gift of Giving”!

Target:

Front-Line Staff, Registered Staff, Managers

Schedule:

1.5 hours, 3 hour (repeated multiple times throughout the day)

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Affirming nurses and teaching them to apply compassion, empathy, and forgiveness to themselves so they may recover from emotional stress.

• Identify sources and damage of stress in the workplace
• Define critical incident stress
• Discuss stress management in the health care sector
• Develop debriefing techniques
• Utilize strategies for self-care and recovery
• Relevant self awareness exercises
• Feel refreshed and empowered to return to the workplace

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff, Management

Schedule:

3 hour, Full-Day

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

If you need to be re-energized, to regain the spark that brought you into healthcare… this workshop is a perfect cure for what ails you!

• Understanding how Nurturers “tick”
• Recognizing exhaustion, the system, and client demands
• Exploring how professional and personal lives intertwine
• Dealing with the “bitching” syndrome
• Defining relationship and how we get hooked
• Knowing what is needed
• Taking control – the skills, the choices, and the results

Target:

Front-line Staff, Registered Staff, Management

Schedule:

3 hour, Full-Day

Extras:

Handouts, Posters

Note: This workshop may be provided twice in a training day, allowing a group of staff to attend the morning session and then a second group to attend an afternoon one. It may be adapted to address the issues faced by service providers working in their clients’ homes or running community support programs.