Self care and productivity are not mutually exclusive Globe_Careers
From left, Tanya Sinclair, CEO for the Pickering Public Library, Jason Tafler, founder and CEO of Unyte, and Shelley Parker, an industrial psychologist with NB Power, talk about ways to manage stress at work during a panel discussion at the 2019 Employee Recommended Workplace Award event in Toronto.
Ms. Sinclair says she is glad her workplace looked into these issues when it did. Just one year after the library became an early adopter of the standard, an employee died rather suddenly – putting the organization’s skills in handling crises to the test. For panelist Shelley Parker, an industrial psychologist at NB Power, enforcing mindfulness through all levels of the corporation has, quite literally, prevented injury and saved lives. Dr. Parker says staff at NB power are most prone to physical accidents during company-wide transitions, when their jobs feel out of their control, which can affect their concentration on the work at hand. Teaching staff mindfulness techniques has helped to combat this.
Panelist Jason Tafler, founder and CEO at Unyte, agrees that strategies for self care and mindfulness are essential to a healthy, productive workplace. In fact, it was a lack of regular self care amid working 80- to 100-hour weeks as an EVP at Rogers Communications that led his health to diminish.
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