Last week, President Whitaker launched our Employee Well-Being and Engagement framework. I’d like to provide you with more information and to ask employees to provide input into the framework development.

Workplace well-being and engagement frameworks, and programs/strategies that result, are most effective and meaningful when they are developed with contributions from the people they are designed to serve. As Humber moves forward, it is important that employees have a voice in determining our future priorities and programming. 

As a starting point, we have developed a suggested set of Dimensions and Drivers for discussion, to help guide the conversation and to lay the foundation for our Well-Being and Engagement framework.

Dimensions are areas of focus that allow us to categorize organizational responses (projects, programs, solutions, approaches, processes, etc.) into definable containers.

Drivers are a condition, strategy or capability that shapes mindsets, culture, behaviour and goals.

You can review the Dimensions and Drivers, for discussion, here.

We want you to help determine which Dimensions and Drivers will inform our Employee Well-Being and Engagement framework and plan. Here’s how:

1. We will share details on the suggested well-being Dimensions and Drivers, through Communiqué in the coming weeks, in person at the scheduled information sessions and on the Employee Well-being and Engagement webpage.
2. You will have an opportunity to attend an information session and to vote on which Dimensions and Drivers are meaningful to you.
3. We will refine the list of Dimensions and Drivers based on your input.
4. You will then be invited to participate in a discussion on the refined list of Dimensions and Drivers, sharing your expectations, stories, experience and advice.
5. You will have the chance to share your feedback anonymously by participating in an Employee Well-Being and Engagement survey. This survey will form our baseline.
6. We will develop an Employee Well-Being and Engagement plan using your feedback.

Your participation, honesty and advice will lead to rich data, which we believe will lead to great results. Please participate by:

• Familiarizing yourself with the Dimensions and Drivers that we have identified for discussion, and consider which are important to you and why.
• Registering for an information session here.
• Voting at one of the information sessions. In-person attendance at a session is the only way to vote. Multiple opportunities will be provided for voting, however, where employees just cannot attend, we will facilitate another mechanism, which will be shared in a subsequent communication.

We will keep you updated on our progress and continue to provide you with information about how to get involved. 

We look forward to hearing your stories and about the moments that have mattered most as your career has advanced at Humber. Thank you for contributing to employee well-being and engagement across the college.
 

Lori Diduch
Vice-President, Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness