Workplace Effectiveness

The Workplace Effectiveness (WE) program helps employers, employees and unions work together better by offering workshops and facilitation services to help them address workplace issues, build stronger workplace relationships, and create and enhance safe and sustainable workplaces.

The purpose of the WE program is to provide advice, facilitation and education to employers, employees and unions in Alberta.  WE program facilitators work with organizations and union representatives to explore ways to improve workplace relationships and help employers, employees and unions effectively use problem-solving skills and techniques to help avoid problems.

WE program facilitators promote the importance of quality workplaces by helping clients:

• identify needs and find effective strategies to deal with workplace issues that are causing communication challenges or related problems for people who are working together
• develop skills and techniques for building strong working relationships between employers, employees and unions
• respond effectively to transition issues during times of workplace change.

WE program facilitators are not directly involved with collective bargaining or labour dispute processes.  That is the job of labour relations or mediation services professionals.

The goal of WE program facilitators is to help find solutions that benefit the employers, the employees and the unions, which in turn will benefit the economy and all Albertans.