REINVENTING THE COMPASSIONATE COMMONROOM

A FORUM FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS, PRINCIPALS AND THOSE PROFESSIONALS MANAGING HR IN SCHOOLS

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016HOTEL WINDSOR

SPRING STREET, MELBOURNE

MINDFULNESS, WELLNESS AND THE EMOTIONALLY

HEALTHY SCHOOL

WITH

Those who work in schools now share more taxing accountabilities, more stressors and greater change demands as the digital natives populate the classroom. All staff are more susceptible to stress. That stress must not become distress. The stressors will not go away. They cannot be neutralised or quarantined. So, the ‘with-it’ school will develop coping mechanisms that are fundamental to the organization’s emotional intelligence and culture. Then, like good sailors, all will be ready to engage these new tempests whenever and wherever they arise.

COFFEE & REGISTRATION

WELCOME

STRESS, EMOTIONAL HEALTH, CULTURE, TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND MINDFULNESS, STRESSORS, PSYCHOLOGICAL INJURY, DETECTION & PREVENTION STRATEGIES

8.30 AM

8.40 AM

8.45 AM : THE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

10.15 AM

Each of us has defence mechanisms and views

about people and professional situations that

keep us stuck in our current way of ‘doing things’,

reluctant to change. When we let go of these fears

and anxieties, our view of the world changes.

Then, we can change the course of how we think

and feel. Our emotional health, and the positive

influence we each bring to bear on the school’s

culture, can blossom. Transformation and renewal

are integral to any organization confronting

change. Once a school identifies a need to change

its vision, values or its strategic direction, it is

critical that its culture expands to engage that

new direction and that its emotional health is

sufficiently robust to enable the challenges to

become a source of personal and professional

growth for the individual and the team.

The presentation will explore the many facets that create a great team culture, how we can measure the emotional health of individuals and schools and use the Human Resources Manager as a catalyst in building a supportive, problem-sharing, positive workplace as a result.

The school workplace is emotionally charged,

highly accountable, and ‘public’ especially since

the advent of “facebook” and its many clones. It is

confronting change, with the arrival of the ‘digital

native’ generation, on as large a scale as arose with

the inception of the computer. The academic and the

professional staff work with parents and even some

colleagues who often do not understand the extent

of the professional expectations each carries. So,

stress and distress, isolation, harassment, bullying,

hours of work, interruptions, unreal expectations

and time-lines, professional arrogance and

establishing the team’s professional presence, time-

lines and the ill-defined nature of its contribution

all can contribute to dysfunction. How can all these

issues be knitted into a productive, professionally

happy landscape? What are the tell-tale signs

of distress and the tried and true prevention

strategies? Developing wellness and mindfulness.

FRIDAY JUNE 24, 2016

PRESENTER: Gayle Hardie,Global Leadership Foundation

PRESENTER: Claire Ebstein,Bodycare Workplace Solutions

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LUNCH

DRINKS

AFTERNOON COFFEE

DEVELOPING AND INCORPORATING THE HR MANAGER’S ROLE INTO SCHOOL CULTURE AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF MANAGEMENT FOR POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE PURPOSE

ABSENTEEISM AND PRESENTEEISM, DEVELOPING A SUPPORTIVE, COACHING CULTURE, CREATING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS AND THE POWER OF THE POSITIVE

EMPATHETIC MANAGEMENT AND MINDFULNESS: THE WELLNESS-MINDFULNESS CONTINUUM, PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND THE CORRELATION WITH SUCCESS, PRODUCTIVITY AND HAPPINESS

12.30 PM4.00 PM

2.30 PM11.15 AM

1.15 PM

2.45 PM

School leaders, including Principals, having come

through the learning and teaching ranks, do not

usually understand or appreciate what HRM is all

about and what HR staff can provide the school

in terms of professional and decision support,

adding organizational value from recruitment to

exit interviewing, increasing job satisfaction and

establishing a grievance watch, facilitating career

orientation and development, review, advancement

and compliance as well as workplace definition and

compliance from the technical to the administrative.

The role should be integral, not an “add-on”.

Winning the understanding and the full support of

management, then the common room, is the first

task to be mastered.

Stress can be positive until that trigger point is

reached when it becomes distress. There are so

many reasons why this may happen. Coaching can

assist the colleague to pull back from the dangers

of distress, and the twin cancers of absenteeism

or presenteeism. Does your school have a formal

coaching, mentoring structure? Are the professional

expectations realistic? So many experienced

practitioners can cite the words of advice, the

‘tips’, some supportive, usually more experienced

colleague once gave them, using the ‘problem’ as

an opportunity to establish a lasting professional

relationship. Medicos and lawyers have structures

in place for exactly this reason. How might schools

use these models to create a positive, problem-

solving culture and to come to understand the

power of the positive?

Work, the need to succeed, even stress itself can

become addictive with deleterious effect. The

pressure to succeed, especially midst younger

members of staff, can create any number of

potentially harmful effects. All staff should

understand too the potential for self-imposed

harm contrasting with the power and productivity

of true wellness, mindfulness and psychological

health. Empathetic management works on

establishing a true work-life balance that is mutually

advantageous to the school and the member of staff.

PRESENTER: Andrea McCall,Andrea McCall and Associates

A PRACTITIONERS’ PANEL

PRESENTER: Vanessa Alford,Author, physiotherapist and marathon runner.

SPONSORED BY: Bridge Consulting

FEES AND REGISTRATION The fee will include the cost of a buffet

lunch and morning and afternoon tea:

“Early Bird” Fee (not including GST) $ 590

Full Fee (not including GST) $720

The ‘Early Bird’ concession will apply to all

enrolments received by 4pm, May 12, 2016.

It will also apply to all second and subsequent

enrolments received from the one school at any

time before enrolments close. The final date for

registration will be Friday, June 17, 2016.

A cancellation policy applies. Cancellations

before May 12, 2016 will receive a full refund

less 20%: cancellations before May 26, 2016

will receive a 50 % refund but any cancellation

after May 26, 2016 will not warrant a refund. A

substitute is always welcome if a delegate finds

that unforeseen circumstances have arisen

which prevent attendance.

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THE PRESENTERS

Andrea McCall

Claire Ebstein

Vanessa Alford

Gayle Hardie

Andrea McCall’s background is in Human Resources Management. She also holds qualifications in History and Politics. Her extensive career has included running her own business, lecturing at a number of Victorian Universities and as a State Member of Parliament, representing Frankston. She is a sought after speaker at conferences and runs seminars on a variety of topics. She is tutor at U3A, Frankston. Andrea is also a member of the ACFE Board (Adult Community and Further Education) and Chair of its Youth Taskforce.

Claire has a strong Workplace Risk skill set in Occupational Health and Safety Management and Workers ‘Compensation with formal qualifications in Physiotherapy and Safety. She has achieved significant financial and operational outcomes in several industries. Her direct contact with and intimate knowledge of the challenges of school workplaces began with her work as a Senior Consultant with a large Insurance Broker and continues now with Bodycare. Claire has also practised physiotherapy and has worked as a senior Occupational Rehabilitation Consultant.

Vanessa Alford is a physiotherapist, nutritionist, clinical pilates instructor and former elite marathon runner. Vanessa is the author of Fit Not Healthy, her personal story of exercise addiction. For years Vanessa pushed her body to the limit, punishing it with endless gruelling workouts, driven to succeed, while working and studying full time. She was so blinded by her obsession and in denial of the harm she was inflicting on her body that she failed to see how detrimental her lifestyle was to her health. She eventually paid the price, struck by a debilitating illness that no medical test could explain. Her journey has taught her the importance of achieving balance in all aspects of life.

Gayle Hardie is passionate about making a positive difference to people’s lives, their businesses and workplaces. She presents widely on emotional health, transformational leadership, change in individuals and organisations, leadership resilience, and strategic planning & development. She is a co-founder of the Global Leadership Foundation who draw clients representing all areas of business. Her initial training and experience was in education. Gayle is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, is a Fellow and Former Board Member of Leadership Victoria, and is a recipient of the Business and Professional Women’s Community Leadership Award. She understands people, their development paths and responses to environments and situations and as such, is brilliantly positioned to be our Keynote speaker.