Workshops and activities
Summary: Workshop materials, including a facilitator’s guide, slides and participant handouts are available free for download on a variety of topics. In addition, team building activities, assessments and other tools are available for those who wish to improve psychological health and safety. These free resources can help.
For leaders
The workshops are designed to be delivered virtually or in person, and the audience may include the public, employees and/or leaders. Topics range from learning to personally recharge to developing organizational policy. The On the agenda workshop series provides team building or policy development support related to each of the psychosocial factors named in the National Standard.
There are many team building and healthy break activities to choose from.
List of workshops and activities
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation.
These free, practical resources are available for you to download or print. They can be used by you personally, with your team, or as part of a training or awareness session you facilitate. While our website covers many other topics, these are the most popular for learning and development.
On the agenda offers free materials and facilitator tools to address psychosocial factors. Create an action plan with your team to improve psychological health and safety.
These team-building activities can help improve team effectiveness. Leaders and team members can learn how to resolve issues and support each other.
Healthy break activities are no- to low-cost and are designed to encourage employees to take regular breaks even during the busiest workdays. The activities fall into one of three categories – calming, energizing or relaxing.
Check out themes and ideas for each month to help boost awareness, wellness and inclusion. Also review Cultural celebrations for some days that may be significant to your employees. Consider highlighting relevant days throughout the year to help build community at work. Click on a month to see all listed themes and ideas.
This activity helps us understand our own emotional triggers in order to choose an effective response rather than react to the emotion.
Learn how to facilitate a team discussion to address physical safety in the workplace. This resource includes a guide and slides to help you get started.
These resources can help you support an employee to improve their performance and productivity related to a specific task by working through potential barriers and building a plan for success.
Sometimes you may need to learn a new skill in a hurry. To help you with this, Workplace Strategies has broken down some of our most popular and practical skills into short learning modules. We’ll continue to build this library for you so if there’s a topic you’d like but don’t see, Contact us. Your suggestion might lead to our next microlearning module!
Psychological injury can happen as a result of severe stress or trauma. There are approaches to building resilience that make it less likely that psychological injury will be as severe in impact or duration. The strategies shared are intended to be part of team building or employee development activities and are not clinical in nature.