The Mental Wellness in the Workplace working group has been reviewing feedback from our most recent survey and want to provide the following timeline and expectations for how information will be shared. To start, a survey participant asked, “what is meant by meaningful conversations; this seems like a broad topic?” Great question and yes, it is a broad topic! To narrow the scope of what the working group is hoping to accomplish, we will be framing the concept of meaningful conversations in the context of our upcoming performance review cycle.
Over the coming weeks, you can expect the following information in N&N:
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March 10 - A feature related to building trust in relationships. We have heard from you that difficult conversations can be tricky to navigate without a certain level of trust between participants.
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March 24 - A feature about active listening. We recognize that while we can provide resources on how to start a conversation, it is a two way street and active listening is a key component to creating meaningful and productive conversations.
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April 7 - A recap of resources as well as a cheat sheet of conversation prompts for teams/colleagues, supervisors to staff, and vice versa.
Starting mid-April, the working group will be pausing our meetings and active work to take a break and reflect. We will be looking to regroup in summer/fall 2022 and will also be seeking additional membership. If you are interested in being more involved with this work, please reach out to Amber Cellotti at
knap0071@umn.edu. A huge thank you to those who have been involved and have given their time and energy towards this important work.
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