Intensive Training Seminars

Are you often called upon to lead meetings, workshops, or crucial conversations? Do you find yourself anxious about public speaking or unsure how to foster an environment where participants feel safe to share their ideas? If so, you're not alone. Join our two-day Intensive Training Seminar designed to transform your facilitation skills and elevate your professional capabilities.

The success of workplace health promotion efforts depends, in part, on effective implementation of practices that are based on good science. As such, those responsible for organizational health and well-being efforts need to be good consumers of research. This requires competencies in evaluating relevant studies, identifying red flags, questioning spurious claims, and understanding what you can and can’t say from available measures and data.

Similarly, health promotion professionals need the skills to translate scientific information for various stakeholders (e.g., workers, leadership, governance members, industry and professional colleagues, general public) and communicate it effectively both verbally and in writing. This poses the challenge of balancing the need for rigor with practical demands and limitations of real-world settings, reliance on scientific evidence with the desire for innovation, and the academic views of occupational and public health with the market-driven approaches of the fitness and lifestyle industries.

This intensive training seminar is designed to equip practitioners to make solid, evidence-based decisions that drive results, hone their communication skills, enhance their influence with key decision makers, and present to professional and lay audiences with impact while still maintaining the scientific integrity of their content.

Over the course of two days, participants will apply what they learn by evaluating sample materials, discussing examples, revising content, crafting their own communications, creating and presenting brief presentations, and using constructive feedback from the group to increase their impact.

Day two will then highlight the skills needed to translate, both verbally and in writing, methods and results from “simple” evaluations to more rigorous scientific studies into terms more digestible by key audiences. This addresses the challenge of balancing the need for rigor with practical demands and limitations of real-world settings, reliance on scientific evidence with the desire for innovation, and the academic views of occupational and public health industries with the market-driven approaches of the fitness and lifestyle industries.