Welcome to our one-day course to improve your skills and knowledge on leading and developing work wellbeing! The course is aimed at those interested in developing work wellbeing and with suitable background education and/or practical work experience.

KivaQ Ltd organises the course together with The Finnish Association for Human Resources Management – HENRY ry for the third time. HENRY’s members get a discount of  -33 %.

The training will be held in Finnish but the material is available in English.

Time: November 9th 2017 from 8h30-16h30
Place: HENRY’s Oivallusverstas, Pohjoisesplanadi 33 A, 3rd floor, Helsinki

During the training you will learn to use the KivaQ work wellbeing questionnaire and analyse its results. In addition, you will learn to lead KivaQ development workshops. The participants will get KivaQ Diploma and can thereafter facilitate KivaQ workshops without any licence fee.  

The instructor, MD Ove Näsman, has developed both the KivaQ Questionnaire and the KivaQ Workshop, the latter with the professor emeritus Juhani Ilmarinen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

The price for the course is 300 €/person for HENRYs members and 450 €/person for others (+24% VAT). The price includes the KivaQ Questionnaire, Workshop-guide (available in English), 7 power Point slides as well as breakfast, lunch and snack.

Registration by the latest November 6th. The maximum number of participants is 14.

Feedback from previous cources: “Excellent tool”, “Thanks for a great course!”, participants’ score for the speaker 3,8/4.

 

Further information:

Ove Näsman ove.nasman(at)kivaq.fi, 0400-218537

Programme

November 9th 2017

08.30 Breakfast
09.00 Course begins, presentation of participants
09.15 Introduction to KivaQ Method
10.00 KivaQ Questionnaire
11.15 KivaQ Workshop  – Planning development areas in pairs, summary in group

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Prioritizing development areas
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Planning concrete actions in pairs, summary in group
16.00 Discussion & Diplomas
16.30 Course ends

 

KivaE equality questionnaire, developed by KivaQ Ltd, has been accepted as an act in 100 acts for gender equality project. The project is a part of the celebrations and official programme of the centenary of Finland’s independence in 2017. It is coordinated by The National Council of Women of Finland and Council for Gender Equality.

–          Our aim was to develop a tool that is easy to use and helps companies and organisations promote equality from their own perspective, says KivaQ’s Development Director Tarja Arkio.

–          With the KivaE questionnaire it is possible to indentify possible experiences of discrimination or inappropriate treatment due to i.e. gender, age or ethnic origin. The questionnaire also demonstrates the different roles played by top-management, middle managers and employees in promoting equality. Those responsible for drafting the mandatory equality plan at workplaces also benefit from the questionnaire, says Arkio.

KivaE Questionnaire has already been tested in the municipality of Kristinestad, where more than 200 employees responded. The results were presented to the management board of the municipality and to the personnel. Kristinestad will use the results when drafting its equality plan. In addition, the questionnaire has been piloted in training sessions organised by different organisations, ie. by the NGO Sector of the Federation of Professional and Managerial Staff YTN.

The user friendly, on-line questionnaire will be published before the end of the year. Companies and organisations can order the survey easily from KivaQ webpage in Finnish, Swedish or English.

Further information on 100 acts for gender equality project is found at project’s homepage   or from  tarja.arkio@kivaq.fi

Tarja Arkio (MSSc, BA) has been hired as Development Director of KivaQ.
Arkio is responsible for managing the KivaQ GoesGlobal -project and developing a new KivaE(Equality)-questionnaire. Arkio has previously worked as a Senior Advisor for Akava, where she was responsible for work well-being and equality issues.

– KivaQ will expand its business and is looking for new opportunities in foreign markets. Arkio´s know-how provides us with new possibilities to develop KivaQ’s services. We have excellent opportunities to export Finnish know-how in work wellbeing and equality, says Ove Näsman, CEO of KivaQ.

– I am enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by KivaQ. Its services are tested both scientifically and in practice and are impressive in their simplicity. Next we shall focus on creating new services and taking Finnish know-how to foreign markets, says Tarja Arkio.

 

For over 30 years I was working as a company doctor at a steel factory. During those years I noticed a clear shift in the personnel´s attitude toward the superiors. In the past, having the right title was more than enough to achieve authority, but today especially the near-leader (= a persons immediate superior) acquires his/her authority through his/her own actions and behavior.

Thanks to the well functioning educational system organizations are now facing the fact that the subordinates have more knowledge in their job than their superiors. As far as I know this is the truth not only for many organizations in Finland, but also for organizations globally. Because of this employees often need to take, and also should be given the possibility to take, more responsibility for their own jobs. Therefore, shared leadership is relevant and should be an issue in todays working life. In Finland Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation has nailed it by launching the campaign “Finland needs 5 000 000 leaders” (same amount as the total population = everyone should be a leader) where self-leadership is introduced parallelly with near-leadership http://bit.ly/1ztGagh.

Already for years Mediona has used an engaging method for developing the wellbeing at work in organizations. Over the time I have noticed that “Leadership” seldom arises as a development area during the development workshops, although we know how strongly the leadership affects the wellbeing at work. Is it possible that the leadership is a topic too sensitive to bring up when the superior sits next to you? I myself, believe this often is the reason, and this is why we have developed the development method Metal Age® Leadership ­– a new way for developing both near-leadership and self-leadership.

Still, we don’t say that superiors shouldn’t participate in conventional leadership educations, but are these really enough? I suspect that the leadership jumps to a totally different level if the superior is brave enough to together with his or her own team open-mindedly develop both his/hers own near-leadership and the self-leadership of his/hers co-workers.

Our workshop for developing the near-leadership and self-leadership takes about 4 hours and includes the following steps:

1. Reviewing the results of a recent work wellbeing questionnaire.
2. Finding the development areas for a) near-leadership and b) self-leadership. Group work in pairs. Superior works together with the facilitator separately from the others.
3. Summary of the development areas suggested by the subordinates. The superior do not participate in this stage.
4. Discussion and planning of the concrete actions for developing the leadership. The actions and the schedules are agreed on together. Everyone participates.
5. Decisions about a possible follow-up and a new work wellbeing survey.

I want to challenge all leaders – take the next step and start developing the leadership together with your own team including all your subordinates. I’m convinced that not only the subordinates’, but also the leader’s own work wellbeing will improve after only a half a day of interactive leadership development.

– Ove Näsman

Our methods for measuring and improving wellbeing at work, KivaQ and Metal Age, seems to work very well in Finnish enterprises and organisations. I have presented the methods in close to twenty countries around the world and the response has always been very good. Wellbeing at work is an issue today in most developed countries and is part of the strategic leadership in many enterprises.There is a demand for practical and scientifically tested methods assisting enterprises in improving not only wellbeing at work but also productivity and profitability.

Finland is one of the leading countries when it comes to developing wellbeing at work. Finland is small but the global market is endless. The Finnish government encourages  SME:s to internationalize. The new jobs are created in SME:s.

On October 1st 2014 i listened to William Frost  at Turku WTC presenting his book Small  Company – Big World and got some good advice. The Finnish government  (ELY-keskus = Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment)  actively supports SME:s in their struggle to internationalize. This support is very valuable for SME:s like our company with very limited or no export experience. On October 9th I attended a Scandinavia-seminar at the ELY-keskus and had continued discussions on November 7th.

We are now convinced that we want to internationalize and that it will be fun. I strongly believe that we will succeed. In a year we will know. I hope that many other SME:s will internationalize for the benefit of the whole population in Finland.

– Ove Näsman