One-day Seminars & Workshops – Silver Meridian

Silver Meridian seminars and workshops provide intensive, interactive 1-Day training for all employees. The following are topical areas provided by Silver Meridian. Keep in mind that new programs can be developed or custom tailored to meet your home’s or organization’s specific learning needs.

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For Leaders & Managers

Accelerating Nurse Leadership

As a graduate of The Excelling as a Nurse Leader in Long Term Care Program, you acquired new skills and...

Collaborative Mentorship

Establishing a Successful Mentorship Program For leadership and mentoring team members “The most significant thing my mentor did was to...

Countering Conflict with Confidence

It is not surprising, given the busy, challenging and stressful work environment of long term care that managers and supervisors...

DISCovering Your Employees Untapped Potential

Gallup research has revealed that employees’ strengths can be developed infinitely. Demings Law of quality improvement states that 80% of...

Excelling Performance Through Appraisals

In most organizations performance appraisals are dreaded by staff, and are almost dreaded as much by the managers who conduct...

Fostering Fervent Fans in Long Term Care – Accelerating Your Customer Service

Meeting the expectations of customers relative to care and services for seniors have always been important in long term care....

Fundamental Leadership in Long Term Care

While almost all aspects of the Manager, RN and RPN roles have changed in long term care, one of the...

Leaders Guide to Culture Change

Changing the Culture and Response to Change The one certainty in health care is change. Change is lurking around every...

Making Meetings Matter

Appropriate for all managers and supervisors. As the meeting was called to order, no one looked up, and conversations continued...

Positively Dealing with Negativity

While an underlying current of negativity is common in most workplaces, left unchecked, it can quickly escalate into a full-...

Recognizing, Re-Organizing & Revitalizing Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Leading Effective Teams

As a manager, you have aspirations of excellence for your department and home. The challenge for you as a team...

Soaring With Your Strengths

In the face of daily challenges, it is easy for individuals and organizations to ignore the strengths of their people...

The Power of Positive Leadership – 7 Steps to Inspiration

The most successful leaders are those who are positive and inspired, and who in turn inspire others to be positive....

The Right to Manage – The Right Way!

Navigating the Realities of a Broken Labour Management System The current public inquiry regarding catastrophic events in the LTC sector...

For All EMployees

Case-Based Consultative Learning & Practice

An Action-Focused, Problem Solving Methodology Using the Concept of “Show & Tell” This innovative and consultative approach to learning begins...

Creating a Culture of Customer Service

Outstanding customer service is a key component of every great long term care organization. Such organizations recognize that customer service...

Dealing with Stress at Work

Developing strategies and approaches to overcome the negatives of stress. Coming Soon.

Respect Building

Countering Negativity & Bullying With a Proactive, Assertive and Positive Approach. Coming Soon

Tackling Toxicity: Achieving a Psychologically Healthy Workplace

Presented by Steve Mathew (Behaviour Therapist, Mental Health Clinical Manager) The increase in documented violence in long term care has...

The Power of Teams

Effective teams do not just happen. In fact, many long standing teams continue to operate for years at less than...

Understanding, Creating and Living Your Mission, Vision and Values

All too often organizations purport more than they support their Mission, Vision and Values. When asked “What are they?” staff...

For Front-line Staff

Choosing to Lead: Key Leadership Practices for Front Line Leaders

This one day seminar is designed to facilitate the development of essential leadership skills among front-line leaders. The timing is...

Enriching Resident Care

For Recreation Staff

Adding Pizzazz to Programs

Maintaining the vitality of activities is an essential element to providing successful activity programs. Resident decisions to attend programs, stay...

Advancing with ActivityPro

Uncovering the Hidden Treasures and Rewards of ActivityPro A one-day training session for current ActivityPro users ActivityPro, the most prominent...

Bingo …and So Much More

Programming for Frail, Alert Residents Don’t panic! BINGO is still Good! However, the need to re-think programming for the minority...

Engaging Reluctant Residents

Strategies in overcoming resident resistance to participation in recreation programs Every recreationist has faced the challenge of overcoming resident resistance...

Leading the Charge: Facilitating Change as a Recreation Professional

All successful recreation departments have one common feature – effective leadership. Too often great programs and strategies fail to realize...

Mission Possible: Maintaining Your Animation AND Doing Documentation

Recreationists in long term care are challenged to stay “in the positive,” in spite of constantly changing demands and expectations....

Programming for the Cognitively Impaired Resident

One Person, One Step at a Time As the number of cognitively impaired residents in long term care escalates, recreation...

The Activity Challenge: Mending, Blending and Ascending

Making Adjustments – Merging the Best – Proving Your Worth A One-Day Program for Recreation/Activation Leaders More complex care needs,...

For All EMployees

Ensuring a Culture of Resident Safety

As employees in long term care we have the privilege to work with one of the most vulnerable groups in...

Ethical Issues in Long Term Care Mental Health & Crisis Management (MHEI)

“Chance favours the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur Suitable for all levels of staff from all departments. This session can be...

Guarding Your Hot Button!

Therapeutic Approaches among Residents with Mental Disorders in Long Term Care There is a growing trend of older adults coming...

Maladaptive Personalities: Verbal Abuse & Manipulation among Residents in LTC (MHMP)

This session is suitable for all levels of staff, from all departments. This session can be credited to the 5-Day...

Mobilizing Resources to Manage Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Solutions to complex problems hiding in plain sight! Psychosis, anxiety, sleep disturbance, agitation and depression! These are among the most...

Practical Dementia Care

Dementia and related disorders affect the person’s entire being including: physical symptoms; cognitive symptoms as well as behavioral & psychological...

Preventing & Managing Agitation & Aggression in Dementia

Managing the Crises that Occur Despite Our Best Efforts! Dementia affects the whole person including cognitive and physical symptoms as...

RecoveryCare Certification Bridging Program

Mandatory Bridging Program June 15, 20221:00pm Become a Certified Mental Health Specialist by taking advantage of the full certificate program!...

Residents with Anxiety & Depression in LTC (MHAD)

The session is suitable for all levels of staff, from all departments. This session can be credited to the 5-Day...

Residents with Psychotic & Substance-Use Disorders in LTC (MHPS)

The session is suitable for all levels of staff, from all departments. This session can be credited to the 5-Day...

Safe and Caring Hands: Therapeutic Resident Relationships

This session is suitable of all levels of staff, from all departments and can be delivered as a full day...

Supporting Residents with Mental Health Disorders in Long Term Care (MHMD)

The session is suitable for all levels of staff, from all departments. This session can be credited to the 5-Day...

For Registered Staff

Assessment and Care Planning Skills – Strengthen and Enhance this Vital Component of Your Practice

Assessment and documentation cannot be separated from good resident care. The use of technology, the demand for quality documentation, and...

Clinical Care in LTC Series

This three day learning series has been designed to enhance the clinical skills of nurses working in long term. Each...

For Front-line Staff

Back to Basics Series

The following provides a listing of topics essential for direct care providers, each of which can be presented as full...

Living Resident Centredness

Being truly resident-centred impacts our thinking and our practices. When our actions demonstrate we are “living” a resident-centred approach, a...