Employee Resources - Working from Home during COVID-19 Weekly Highlights

Below are a few highlights from this week's Employee Resources - Working from Home during COVID-19 update! To review more resources, supports and training recommendations, please visit the Employee Resources - COVID-19 page on MyMohawk.

Check out our list of external upcoming webinars!

Topic: How Leaders Can Build Organizational Resilience to Thrive in Uncertain Times
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Time: 1:00PM
Length: 1 hour
Description: A discussion on the process of building organizational resilience through anticipating challenges and opportunities, adapting to working and collaborating in new ways, and assessing through reviewing and reflecting on progress. When your organization strengthens its capacity for resilience, you will emerge stronger, more resourceful, and capable of thriving in the changed world of the future.

Topic: Reducing Anxiety & Managing the Transition Back to Class – for Post-Secondary Educators
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 @ 8 pm or Wednesday, September 30, 2020 @ 1 pm
Length: 1 hour
Description: While anxiety is a normal and expected reaction to the pandemic, too much anxiety may cause harm and take a toll on one’s mental health and well-being. Educators, understandably are concerned about the uncertainty surrounding a return to learning environments and may be struggling with keeping worries — both their students and their own — at bay. This one hour webinar will explore strategies for navigating the changes that educators face with greater ease while providing tips and tools to support their psychological well-being during these uncertain times.

Topic: Cultivating Resilience as an Antidote to Burnout
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
Time: 1:00PM
Length: 1 hour
Description: In these times of uncertainty, pain, anxiety and overwork, organizations are facing a coming wave of employee and leader burnout if they don’t take action now. It may already be hitting your organization (and you). It is clear that we need to rethink how we build resilient workplaces and teams. We’ll also explore the difference between compassion and empathy and dive into the research around the impact that compassion has on building resilience and preventing burnout.

Topic: Moving Forward - Women in Leadership
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Time: 12:00PM
Length: 1 hour
Description: We have made strides in improved equity, but there’s still work to do. What are the frontiers of practice that promote women’s leadership in 2020?