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Friday, April 4, 2025

Nelson Island re-imagined to inspire hope

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885 days ago
20221101
LSAH staff display their family tree art on the ruins of the Marion Hospital on Nelson Island.

LSAH staff display their family tree art on the ruins of the Marion Hospital on Nelson Island.

The Nel­son Is­land Her­itage Park off the coast of Care­nage has many lay­ers of his­to­ry.

From the eras of First Peo­ples, Span­ish and British colonis­ers, and In­den­ture­ship, to World War I and II, and a prison for cham­pi­ons of so­cial jus­tice.

The is­land has fea­tured in some of the piv­otal mo­ments of the coun­try’s his­to­ry.

Now un­der the Na­tion­al Trust, its tur­bu­lent past is giv­ing way to a sanc­tu­ary.

A serene, re­flec­tive, and nur­tur­ing space for fam­i­lies and com­pa­nies alike to hit the re­set but­ton.

Its re­mote lo­ca­tion cou­pled with well-ap­point­ed fa­cil­i­ties was the ide­al lo­ca­tion to stage the an­nu­al re­treat for the staff of LSA Health­care Ser­vice Ltd (LSAH) to ‘‘Re­new & Re­set.”

Leela Ram­s­ingh, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor at the com­pa­ny said: “LSAH has been in busi­ness for 19-plus years and staff re­treats are an in­te­gral part of build­ing our cor­po­rate cul­ture. We val­ue our staff and take pride in in­vest­ing and strength­en­ing re­la­tion­ships among our em­ploy­ees.

“This year LSAH, en­gaged two of the best coach­es in the in­dus­try, Ani­ka Plow­den—Corentin, Art and Well­ness Coach and Char­lene Pe­dro, CEO Cor­po­rate Train­er & HR of Con­ven­tus Con­sult­inc.”

Against the back­drop of gen­tly crash­ing waves and cool trop­i­cal breezes cradling the his­toric site, LSAH staff were vir­tu­al kings and queens for the day on their “pri­vate” is­land.

They bond­ed, ex­change ideas, and had en­joy­able qual­i­ty time.

The re­treat was time­ly as Men­tal Health Aware­ness was be­ing ob­served in Oc­to­ber and dis­or­ders such as anx­i­ety, de­pres­sion and so­cial with­draw­al af­fect peo­ple in the work­place from all walks of life.

Kings and Queens for the day, LSAH employees having a ball on Nelson Island.

Kings and Queens for the day, LSAH employees having a ball on Nelson Island.

Over the past two decades, LSA Health­care Ser­vice Lim­it­ed has built a rep­u­ta­tion as a pre­mier Health­care busi­ness, fo­cused on im­prov­ing the lives of in­di­vid­u­als through hy­giene, specif­i­cal­ly Wash­room Hy­giene.

The pan­dem­ic would have placed ad­di­tion­al stress­es on staff.

The com­pa­ny be­lieves wash­room hy­giene is one yard­stick for mea­sur­ing how or­gan­i­sa­tions val­ue their staff and cus­tomers.

Ac­cord­ing to Ram­s­ingh: “A wel­com­ing and com­fort­able wash­room ex­pe­ri­ence con­tributes to the at­mos­phere de­sired for suc­cess, whilst boost­ing em­ploy­ee morale and the cus­tomers’ im­pres­sion of an or­gan­i­sa­tion.”

Ram­s­ingh con­tin­ued: “Al­though COVID-19 is slow­ly re­duc­ing its grip on so­ci­ety, the pan­dem­ic will have long-term im­pacts on the work­ing world.

“De­vel­op­ing team co­he­sion and sol­i­dar­i­ty is more im­por­tant than ever for im­prov­ing em­ploy­ee re­ten­tion. Team build­ing and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment pro­grammes like “Re­new & Re­set” can check all the box­es for cre­at­ing stronger re­la­tion­ships, en­hanc­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, in­creas­ing em­ploy­ee loy­al­ty, and im­prov­ing peo­ple skills. The re­sult we hope to achieve, is an en­gaged, high-per­form­ing, pos­i­tive work­force.”

The re­treat had the de­sired im­pact as LSAH staff who im­mersed them­selves in the team build­ing and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment ac­tiv­i­ties while en­joy­ing amaz­ing views and the awe-in­spir­ing his­tor­i­cal site.

“Staff were re­freshed and res­olute and that is im­por­tant for LSAH as the No. 1 hy­giene ser­vice provider in T&T,” said Ram­s­ingh.


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