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20/4/2010
Online webinar
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The Management Masterclass online webinar
Dealing with Cancer in the Workplace
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Speaker:
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Elizabeth Gould
Author, cancer survivor
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Time:
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12:00pm
concluding by 1pm. Listen with your computer or by phone. You will be sent a confirmation email with all webinar information after registering.
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Venue:
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ONLINE WEBINAR
online
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Cost:
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$27.00 for non members - FREE for Silver, Gold and Platinum members. Log in to receive 100% discount
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Profile:
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Who is a cancer survivor? Is it a cancer patient who has finished radical treatment, or a patient who had a tumour removed and is told the cancer is gone? Many survivors would say being a cancer survivor signifies change, not recovery. Post cancer, life is changed – often a new kind of life emerges that was unimaginable before the cancer journey started.
The scars from how cancer is handled in the workplace can be permanent. However, the workplace for all survivors in Elizabeth's book and many other survivors was critically important in their recovery. The workplace was often the only place they still felt ‘themselves’. From a management perspective, how the cancer is handled will be observed by all the staff that know about the illness. This is critical information for any manager, regardless if you have been faced with this disease yet or not. These skills are just as relevant to manage an employee whose partner or loved one has been diagnosed with cancer.
Elizabeth Gould has written a ground breaking book for all cancer patients, cancer survivors, cancer carers, family, friends, work colleagues and medical professionals describing the cancer journey from diagnosis to survivorship.
Through her own amazing story as well as following the journey of five other survivors, both male and female with different cancers, Elizabeth describes the five key mental strategies, the ‘Secrets’ these people used to survive. Dr Mitchell Chipman, a senior oncologist describes her book as “a compelling read for the newly diagnosed cancer patient through to those later in a cancer journey."
What makes Elizabeth’s approach unique is that as well as describing coping strategies for the diagnosis and treatment stages of the cancer journey, Elizabeth describes in detail how life changed for the cancer survivors. Cancer is not like the flu. You are never guaranteed to be ‘better’ and the physical effects of treatment can be permanent as well as leaving lasting psychological and relationship issues.
Elizabeth Gould had barely recovered from being the victim of a major crime during which she had to defence her two small children, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Elizabeth had an successful career before cancer as a lawyer, management consultant and other roles and is now a full time writer currently completing her first screenplay.
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