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Thrive Month - Learning to Thrive
November is Thrive month at UBC. Thrive is a time when we come together as a UBC community to learn about, talk about, and explore ways to support our mental health. Thrive is for everyone—we all have mental health, and while it might look and feel different for each of us, we all benefit from maintaining and fostering it.
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Five ways to engage your team with Thrive
Thrive is a time when the UBC community comes together to learn, talk and explore mental health and resilience. Thrive also provides an opportunity to engage workplaces and teams in discussions and activities that help build supportive workplace culture. Consider gathering your team for Thrive in November. Here are some ideas to get you started.
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Coping with climate change: three steps to supporting emotional wellbeing
Do you feel overwhelmed by the impacts of climate change? If so, you are not alone. Climate change increasingly affects how individuals and communities experience mental health and wellbeing. Coping with the impacts of climate change may leave us feeling helpless and hopeless. However, eco-anxiety and eco-grief are also adaptive and normal responses to a profound global threat. It is important that we maintain and build our resilience in response to climate change.
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Toolkits available to promote the Workplace Experiences Survey
The UBC Workplace Experiences Survey (WES) is coming on November 1.
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Information session about your benefits
Attend the session to understand your benefit plan coverage and how to make claims, learn about the Employee and Family Assistance Plan, and speak directly to one of our benefits specialists.
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Remote work learning opportunities
UBC’s Remote Work program provides an opportunity to consider how future work arrangements will continue to make UBC an inspiring place for students to learn and for faculty and staff to research, teach, and work.
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Final reminder: 2021 Performance-Based Merit Pay spreadsheets due October 15
This is a final reminder that merit and performance-based increase spreadsheets are due back to the Compensation team by Friday, October 15.
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Help build a more inclusive UBC — complete the Employment Equity Survey by Oct. 29
As part of UBC’s ongoing efforts to foster an inclusive and diverse workforce, all faculty and staff in Vancouver and the Okanagan are asked to complete the Employment Equity Survey by Friday, October 29.
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Remote work learning opportunities
UBC’s Remote Work program provides an opportunity to consider how future work arrangements will continue to make UBC an inspiring place for students to learn and for faculty and staff to research, teach, and work.
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Fundamentals of Systematic Inventive Thinking: The Future of Work (November 19)
Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) is an innovation methodology recognized worldwide that has proven crucial for those looking to remain relevant in the workforce in the coming years.
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