Guarding Minds Insights Cohort
From Data Gathering to Action
Facilitated by Well at Work Advisors:
School districts across Canada want to improve workplace wellbeing and need clear, locally relevant data to support their efforts.
Well at Work's Guarding Minds Insights Cohort brings school district participants together in a collaborative and supportive environment as they collect, analyze and interpret Guarding Minds at Work data, and identify priorities and next steps. Participants will gain insight into the organizational issues and circumstances affecting their employees' wellbeing. Tap into Well at Work's expertise, understand your unique challenges and share strategies and resources to address common issues with other participants.
The next Cohort is to be announced.
Here’s what you get:
Well at Work's Guarding Minds Summary, which reflects the expert analysis of your data by Canada's leading K-12 workplace wellbeing experts and synthesizes hundreds of pages of Guarding Minds reports into a 20-page report that identifies relevant overall themes and areas for strategic focus.
Learn more.Six Cohort webinars, which explore best practices in setting up, analyzing and using Guarding Minds and areas of common concern. The webinars provide opportunities to connect and learn as part of a thoughtful community of like-minded individuals who care about workplace wellbeing in Canadian K-12 education.
Learn more.One-on-one coaching and support sessions. Receive support, advice and insights in five sessions with your Well at Work advisor over the year. Discuss how to navigate questions and challenges, unpack data and identify actionable strategies for your context.
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Who should attend?
We strongly encourage districts to send a team of two participants: one participant from the district leadership team and one participant with operational responsibility for workplace wellbeing.
Non-Members
$7,500*
EdCan Members
$6,750*
* Registration includes two participants: one participant from the district leadership team, and one participant with operational responsibility for workplace wellbeing.
+ Exclusive of applicable taxes
Frequently Asked Questions
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Guarding Minds at Work is a free online 15-20-minute employee survey that assesses workplace psychological health and safety and is grounded in the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Guarding Minds can help districts identify where they are, identify areas for improvement, and provide an ongoing measurable way to assess the state of workplace wellbeing. A 2023 update to the survey provides additional data on stress, trauma and inclusion.
Guarding Minds compiles reports providing detailed feedback; however, the length of data for all employee groups (hundreds of pages) presents an analytical challenge.
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Well at Work advisors have direct experience supporting over a dozen school districts across Canada to move from data into actionable workplace wellbeing strategies. We have worked with school districts across Canada, helping them to use Guarding Minds thoughtfully and wisely.
Our proprietary tool summarizes Guarding Minds at Work survey results across employee groups, pulling from comprehensive data to identify overall areas of strength or weakness.
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Based on work with school districts across the country, the Well at Work team has developed tools to enable you to make the best use of Guarding Minds in a K-12 educational context.
The Well at Work's Guarding Minds Summary transforms your districts' 500+ pages of Guarding Minds data into a concise, personalized report. The report includes easily understandable visual representations, graphs, and a summary table with highlighted areas of importance. Based on our proprietary analysis tool and our review and analysis of aggregated data, the report streamlines the data analysis process, drawing attention to critical findings, areas for further exploration, and priority areas.
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As part of the Cohort, you will participate in six 1.5-hour webinars. The webinars are as follows:
October 11, 2023, 12:30 pm EST Orientation to Guarding Minds: Overview of the Guarding Minds tool, review of 2023 updates, discussion of timing, identifying essential employee groups, and pros/cons of different segmentation.
November 8, 2023, 12:30 pm EST Foundations for long-term success: Sharing motivation, expectations, and best practices for survey implementation to support action.
January 24, 2024, 12:30 pm EST Reading your summary report: Review how to read the summary report generated by Well at Work; what to look for, key graphs and trends, etc.
February 21, 2024, 12:30 pm EST Data deep-dive: Review more significant themes amongst districts, and discuss aggregated results from across the education sector.
April 10, 2024, 12:30 pm EST Sharing Your Findings: Exploring ways to communicate your survey findings and engage with partners within your districts.
May 8, 2024, 12:30 pm EST Next Steps: Share with the group ways to continue your work and move forward.
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Your district will be matched with an advisor who offers coaching and accountability throughout the data collection, analysis, and action process. Your coaching sessions will include the following:
Discussion on the most effective survey setup for your context, including which employee groups will receive segmented reports;
A detailed review of your district's summary report, focusing on areas of strength and areas for action;
Discussion on next steps, including strategies for sharing the findings within your district and priority areas for action.
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As a participant in the Cohort, your data is your data. Only you and the Well at Work team will see your Guarding Minds data. You will not be expected to share your data with other participants.
Need more information?
Contact us at wellatwork@edcan.ca for any questions or to set up a quick call.