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Everyone who wants to explore the impact of communication skills on the health of the individual and the productivity of the teamWellness @ Work®
Stress Management Specialists providing quality training for effective work / life balancePresents
A dynamic interactive workshop focusing on communication as an essential wellness resourceIncluding
Gill Marcus, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank,
in conversation with you
…Prioritise your Diary!
Wednesday 20 October 2010
7:30 – 16:00
The Wanderers Club
21 North Street, Illovo, JohannesburgA day for you to enjoy, learn and enhance your skills
Our interactive workshop will:
Provide you with the latest research on how your communication skills and style impacts your health and the wellbeing of those around you - Bernice Funk - Wellness at Work®Equip you to enhance your negotiation and conflict management skills -
David Storey and Judy Parfitt - Resolve GroupGive you an opportunity to interact with the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank,
Gill Marcus, and benefit from her experience...
...... the wellness way
Included in the day:
- Refreshments on arrival
- Early birds will enjoy massage
- Nurturing tea breaks
- An extravagant buffet lunch on the Wanderers Club House terrace
- Many fabulous prizes to be won
- Opportunity to network
Our annual Wellness Days are always fun and nurturingParticipants end the day with enhanced awareness and knowledge, and depart feeling energised, uplifted and motivated
Win great prizes: Including two tickets to Cape Town, courtesy of Comair
Presenters
Bernice Funk
Director: Wellness@ Work® Training Solutions (Pty) Limited
Bernice is a registered with The Chiropractors, Homoeopaths and Allied Health Service Professions Council of South Africa as a Remedial Yoga Therapy Teacher.
She is an experienced programme developer, corporate consultant and facilitator. Her past involvement with the Hospice Association Witwatersrand, and The Centre for Stress Related Illnesses enables her to bring a dynamic integrated approach to the work she is doing in the Corporate World.
Bernice facilitates skills development, self-awareness and personal growth. Her focus is wellness. She is a specialist in proactive self-management and stress management. Bernice developed the Wellness @ Work™ Programme, which she presents on the CDs.
Bernice’s approach to wellness management enhances emotional intelligence that impacts on personal excellence and all aspects of interpersonal relationships.
Her facilitation style is accessible, practical, experiential, interactive, and outcomes based.
She presents at open workshops and conferences.
David Storey
BComm, LLB (WITS), LLM (Harvard)
David is Chief Executive Officer of the Resolve Group and was one of its founders in 1997.
In addition to managing Resolve, David’s professional focus includes providing strategic advice to the private and public sector in the areas of organisational and leadership development, change management and culture alignment, conflict management, human resource strategy, Black Economic Empowerment and governance.
David is an accredited Tokiso Dispute Resolution (SA) and Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK) panellist and was previously accredited as a mediator by both IMSSA and the CCMA (part time). David is also an accomplished trainer, and has published papers and presented at conferences both locally and abroad in the fields of conflict management, as well as policing and crowd management.
Judy Parfitt
MA (UPE), MA (Warwick)
Judy Parfitt has been a director of the Resolve Group since joining the company in 2002. Before this, she headed the human resources division at the South African Revenue Service, where she played a key role in transformation programmes. Other employers on her CV include Volkswagen, where she was the Human Resources Manager; the CCMA, where she established and led the Eastern Cape branch; and the University of Port Elizabeth, where she was a lecturer and researcher in the Industrial Relations Unit. Her experience in the field of human resources management totals more than 25 years. Before that, she was a journalist.
Judy is an accredited Tokiso Dispute Resolution (SA) and Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK) panellist and was previously accredited as a mediator by both IMSSA and the CCMA. Judy has mediated numerous complex disputes over the past 20 years, and conducted a number of sensitive investigations. She is also accredited as an Insights personality profiling practitioner and Barrett culture transformation tool facilitator.
Gill Marcus
Gill Marcus was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1949. Both her parents were anti-apartheid activists and in 1969 the Marcus family went into exile in the United Kingdom. During this time she completed a B Comm degree from the University of South Africa.
She joined the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1970 Ms Marcus started working for the ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity (DIP) and later became the DIP’s deputy secretary.
In 1990 after the unbanning of the ANC, Ms Marcus returned to South Africa and established the ANC’s Information Department. She was elected to the ANC’s National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee and held these positions until 1999. In 1994 she was elected to Parliament and served as the first chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance.
In 1996 she was appointed as Deputy Minister of Finance and in 1999 as Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. After serving as the first female Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank for a period of five years, she took up the position of Professor Policy, Leadership and Gender Studies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in 2004.
In 2007 she became the non-executive Chairperson of the Absa Group. She held this position until her appointment as Governor of the South African Reserve Bank on 9 November 2009. Gill Marcus is the ninth Governor but the first woman to become Governor of the South African Reserve Bank.
Gill has previously served as chairperson of a number of regulatory and supervisory bodies, including the Financial Services Board and the Standing Committee for the Revision of the Banks Act. She has also served as a non-executive director of Gold Fields Ltd, the Advisory Board of the Auditor General and was a member of the Millennium Labour Council.
Gill is currently the Chairperson of the Rhodes Scholarship Fund, patron of the Pretoria Sungardens Hospice and the Working on Fire Programme and a supporter of the Johannesburg Children's Home.
Gill is one of the most sought after speakers in the country.
The Programme:
7:00 - 8:30 Registration: Hand and Shoulder Massage
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Icebreaker8:45 -10:15 Bernice Funk: Wellness At Work®
Focus: Your communication style and the impact on your health
- Effective communication as a wellness resource
- Latest research on the relationship between your communication style and the risk to your health
- The relationship between empathy and wellness and vice versa
- Stress management technique to enhance mindfulness and facilitate choice for response vs. reactio
10:15 - 10:45 Tea
10:45 - 12:45 David Storey and Judy Parfitt: Resolve Group
Focus: Conflict management and Team Wellness
- Understanding conflict better including insight into the origins of team conflict
- How team conflict impacts on individual and team wellness
- Conflict management for effective teamwork
- The benefits of intra- and inter-personal communication and negotiation
- Engagement - the link between team effectiveness and personal wellness
12:45 - 13:00 Win a prize
13:00 - 13:50 Lunch break: A wellness Interlude
13:50 - 14:00 ABSA National Winning Choir 2010
14:00 – 15:45 Gill Marcus in conversation with you
- Up close and personal
- Current issues
- Interactive with Q & A
Closure
15:55 Lucky Draw - Main prize: Two air tickets to Cape Town, courtesy of Comair
16:00 Tea
Details
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2010 Venue: The Wanderers Club
21 North Street, Illovo, JohannesburgTime: 07:00 – 8:30 Registration Closure: 16:00 Cost: R17,000 + VAT per table (10 people)
R1,850 + VAT per individualDress: Casual and relaxed Booking:
RSVP: interactive@wellness-atwork.co.za
Telephone: 011 7287870
Cell: 083 4491140For information about the company: www.wellness-atwork.co.za
Banking Details:
Wellness at Work Training Solutions (Pty) Ltd
First National Bank
Account No: 620 68 293 522
Branch No: 256 205Please fax proof of payment to 011 7289989
Refunds: There will be no refund on cancellations made 14 days or less prior to the event.
