How Can Shifting from Symptoms Thinking to Systems Thinking Make Your Campus Healthier?

How Can Shifting from Symptoms Thinking to Systems Thinking Make Your Campus Healthier?

Campuses are experiencing increased levels of faculty, staff, administrator, and student burnout and exhaustion. Wellness programs might be seen as a necessary investment, but how can you know if a wellness program can address the patterns your campus is experiencing?

This 20-Minute Mentor discusses how you can address the sources of stress first and then create healthier work environments that are not only health promoting, but sustainably productive.

Learning Goals

After viewing this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, participants will be able to:

• Realize why present wellness initiatives may not have led to the campus transformation and/or cultural shifts hoped for
• Use systems thinking to shift their initiatives from individual to organizational
• Recognize new intervention points to promote health and wellness
• Understand the sources of stress in the workplace and implement changes to mitigate them

Topics Covered

• An overview of the Sanders Stress-Strain Model
• An overview of the Systems Thinking Model
• Strategies to systemically reduce stress and strain in the workplace
• Wellness initiatives and their role in helping people manage stress

Audience

This program will benefit:

• Campus Leadership
• Faculty Developers
• Student Services Professionals

Product Code: OM23BD