Facilitate an effective team discussion about addressing and improving involvement and influence in your workplace. The intended outcome is to create a practical and cost-effective action plan that works for your team.
Involvement and influence
In a work environment with positive involvement and influence, employees are included in discussions and have input into decisions that impact their respective jobs.
In an organization with positive involvement and influence, employees might say:
- I have a say in how I will manage organizational changes that affect me.
- I have some control over how I organize my work.
- My suggestions are considered at work.
- I am informed about important changes at work in a timely manner.
- I am encouraged to participate in decisions that impact my work.
Creating awareness: A team discussion
Engage your entire team in reviewing the factors that impact psychological health and safety in your workplace. This approach is recommended by the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. By doing this, you build awareness of the responsibility of each employee to contribute to a positive workplace culture. You also get their involvement in developing and being part of the solution.
Creating change: Facilitating policy development
This session builds on employee ideas developed in the Creating awareness workshop. The next step is to engage decision makers in reviewing employee suggestions against evidence- or practice-based approaches. The objective is to modify or create policies and procedures that improve involvement and influence for your organization.
Evidence-based actions for involvement and influence
Suggested actions are based on research or practice that can improve each psychosocial factor shown. In most cases, free resources are provided to help you move forward, with or without additional funding.
Each of the psychosocial factors identified in Guarding Minds at Work and the National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace have similar resources that can be found in the On the agenda workshop series.