Imagining the Healthy Workplace (and How to Make It Happen)

If our workplaces are manifestations of our collective imaginations, why not make them healthy? An OD community of practice wrestled with this question, collaboratively producing a chapbook containing their answers. Participants will not just learn the eight dimensions of healthier workplaces, but challenge them as well. They'll leave with a clearer sense of the definitions, artifacts, and behaviors characteristic of healthy workplaces and the first steps towards making them happen.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe succinctly the characteristics of healthy workplaces.
2. Identify the footholds for change enabling progress towards healthier workplaces.
3. Create a chapbook on any subject.

SHRM Professional Development Credits

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Fee

OD Network Members: $15
Non-Members: $25

Presenter: Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson currently serves as the University of Washington Tacoma's Associate Vice Chancellor for Organizational Effectiveness and Development. In that capacity he oversees staff HR, mentors academic HR, facilitates a variety of organizational improvement and change management initiatives, and leads management development workshops campus-wide. He is the author of UW Tacoma's Supervisor's Toolbox, several articles, including "My Journey to the Center of HR" in Higher Education Workplace magazine, and co-author of The Healthy Workplace Chapbook, the creation of which he facilitated with fellow UW colleagues. He is a featured practitioner in the 25th anniversary edition of Marvin Weisbord's The Productive Workplace. Richard's eight-word brand is, "Caring leader; skilled facilitator; evangelist for better management." Prior to joining UW Tacoma, Richard worked in HR and organization development leadership capacities in global health, both in the UW's Department of Global Health and the Seattle-based NGO, PATH. This followed fifteen years as HR Director for the City of Redmond, Washington. He has graduate degrees from the University of Southern California in public administration and Antioch University Seattle in organization development.