This workshop is recommended for people leaders, and human resources or labour relations practitioners.
We are all working toward a respectful workplace: an environment where there is a strong culture of inclusion, diversity, mutual respect, and open communication. What is preventing some work environments from this kind of positive culture?
An unhealthy or dysfunctional workplace is a professional environment marked by negativity, hostility, disruptions, and sometimes a perceived lack of employee support. The dysfunction may involve unresolved conflicts, disrespectful work relationships, fallout from a workplace investigation, or perceptions of unfairness. Symptoms of not addressing the issues that underlie and contribute to an unhealthy workplace are often high absenteeism, low morale, and productivity, and impairment of everyone's physical and emotional well-being.
During this workshop, participants will explore recognizing signs of an unhealthy workplace or department, getting to the root of the dysfunction, and creating and implementing an effective intervention.
Participants will learn how to identify and respond to unhealthy workplaces to help create more positive and productive departments and teams.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Workshop Length: 1 day
Format: In-Person
Date: May 13, 2025
Location: PSEA Office, 3rd floor 2889 East 12th Ave., Vancouver
Time: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm PST
Cost: $75.00 plus GST
Lunch: Provided
Facilitator(s): Kyra Hudson, Lawyer, Mediator, and Investigator; Tom Teasdale, PSEA Director of Labour Relations.
To RegisterKyra Hudson was called to the bar in British Columbia and became a member of the Mediate BC Civil Roster of mediators in 2005. As a lawyer, mediator, investigator, and conflict coach, Kyra assists clients with matters in the public and private sector, in unionized and non-unionized environments, and in non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Kyra often designs and supports conflict resolution processes in the post-secondary and sport sectors and has conducted mediations and investigations related to issues of discrimination, harassment, bullying, sexual misconduct, and code of conduct breaches.
Barb Severyn has a long and varied career in human resources in the public sector -- with the BC Public Service in the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, Motor Vehicle Branch, Ministry of Forests, and the BC Public Service Agency in both the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island Regions.
She was the ED of HR with the Vancouver Island Health Authority (now Island Health) for almost 5 years and most recently was the ED of HR with Camosun College in Victoria for 10 years.
