Thursday, March 18, 12pm (12:00 PT, online, 1 hour)

Burnout spans a wide range of experiences. Learn what burnout is, what causes it, and how to deal with it.

Understanding how to know when you or others need support empowers your team. With more people working at home, fewer chances to connect informally arise between managers, staff, and colleagues. Individual people cope differently with the evolving stressors in life, including adapting to this new workplace reality.

The bottom line: Burnout + Turnover = Lost productivity + increased costs

Learn how you can prevent, recognize and recover from burnout.

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Presenter

Zoe Younger, YZ Counselling

Outline

Part 1 – Etiology of Burnout

Part 2 – Recognizing Burnout – assessment tools

Part 3 – Recovering from Burnout – Sparking Joy! Optimism, resilience, resources & reinvention

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We have good ideas for the 3 spring sessions for this year. We are close for September and October. Yet, choosing a session and speaker for November remains difficult.

What do you think? Which of the ones below do you wish to learn about?

Leading Ideas

1. BIM Standards for local professional associations (liabilities, responsibilities, contracts, digital twins, virtual construction)
2. Construction and tech tie-ins
3. Broadway, South Fraser, and Skytrain updates
4. Sustainable data centre design – (Michael O’Neill)

Other Ideas

1. Capston station – architectural considerations of COVID19  
2. Air management limiting recirculation, filtering air quality, air refreshing
3. Changes to mechanical-systems requirements that could persist (cover past and changes) – as panel discussion
4. Changes in corporate travel operations
5. Climate resilience – Joint topic available
6. Code changes
7. Detailed diversity-in-workplace pledge from BC Builders Code

Thursday, April 8, 12pm (12:00 PT, online, 1 hour)

Work and workplace are forever altered, since the pandemic has turned “normal” upside-down. For the first time in history, work has been intentionally uncoupled from the traditional office. Overnight, we’ve learned new behaviors, adopted new technologies, and adjusted to new ways of working.

How will this experience impact the way we work, engage, and build culture within our workplaces post-pandemic? How are our workplaces evolving to meet the needs of tenants and employees? How can we emphasize well-being not only within our workplace interiors, but also by incorporating outdoor accessibility into our workplaces?

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Presenters

Jessica Golding, Associate and Design Manager, Gensler Vancouver. She brings 17-years of expertise in workplace design, project management, strategy, and change management services, and has successfully implemented projects in Canada, the US, U.K. and Asia. She has amassed a portfolio of legal, financial, professional service, technology, life sciences, residential, and convention centre projects.

Jason Santeford, Managing Director, Gensler Vancouver. Jason champions a culture of creative excellence within a wide diversity of practice areas including technology, sciences, entertainment, office, mixed-use, residential, professional services, and education spaces. He possesses 20+ years of diverse experience leading clients and teams on complex, sophisticated projects of scale.

Learning Objectives

1. The impact of remote working: Through Gensler’s Workplace and City Pulse Surveys, we’ll explore how the work from home policy shifted the way employees want to work going forward, including why we’re seeing an increase in migration away from big cities.
2. Workplace trends: How are employee needs shaping our workspaces? We’ll discuss trends like the demand for more in-person/remote collaboration through technology, flexibility in schedule, and more open areas, less density of workspaces, more workplace focus on employee well-being both in and out of the office, etc.
3. The evolving role of the workplace: This pandemic has proven that we can still be successful and productive working remotely. So, what role does the workplace have going forward? We’ll look at the new hybrid workplace model and its value as a place of culture-building, collaboration, community, and well-being.
4. Well-being in the workplace: What is the new role of amenities in the workplace? We’ll share how new amenities can support a safer and healthier workplace both inside and outside (i.e. bringing the outside in, biophilia, etc.), and how these solutions can support well-being in physical space, policy, mind-set, and work/life balance.

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