Mental health is no longer a peripheral HR issue. It is central to the engagement, productivity, retention, and brand reputation of all workplaces. In Australia, one in five people will experience a mental health problem in any given year, and a startling three in five employees report being burnt out. While many organisations have implemented…
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Understanding Trauma in the Workplace: Why Trauma-Informed Practice is Essential Did you know that up to 75% of Australians will experience at least one potentially traumatic event in their lives, and 2/3 of those events occur before the age of 16? This means that in any workplace, trauma could be silently affecting your employees, whether
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Handling distressed callers presents significant psychosocial hazards across industries. Employees in customer service, call centres, complaints departments and other outward-facing roles often engage with individuals experiencing distress. Without proper procedures and training in place, these interactions can impact both employee well-being and workplace safety. Why Distressed Callers Are Problematic Strategies for Managing the Risk Successful
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“I am so stressed” is something we hear almost every day, particularly at work. It is said so frequently, that sometimes it loses its meaning. So what actually is it? Stress is a normal human response to change or demands. It can be caused by both positive and negative events, such as starting a new
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Australia’s largest annual survey for workplace mental health and wellbeing has been released, revealing the indicators of a thriving workplace. 61.8% of Australian workers will suffer a mental health condition in their lifetime, and nearly a quarter of them believe their workplace has caused it or made it worse. Reports like this one are essential
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Welcome to this blog about exploring some of the things Rosie Bartlett, founder and Principal Consultant has observed while delivering mental health training. The programs delivered have ranged from courses such as Mental Health First Aid which focuses on identification and early intervention of mental illness, to proactive mental fitness and stress management and self-care
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This is the fourth and final post in the series. Click to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part three here 7. A lot of people are fixers Being a fixer is great in the business sense. Someone comes to you with a problem and you help them fix it and you move on. Great!
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This is the third post in the series. Click to read Part 1 and Part 2 here 5. People worry about ‘overstepping the line’ One of my key things I drum into my participants is the need to get curious. Yet so many people I meet are scared to ask the right questions because they
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This is a four part series. Did you miss part 1? 3. It is up to the workplace to create a culture of wellbeing conversations I had a participant in my course the other day look at me and say ‘As a manager If I were to try and casually approach one of my team,
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During a lockdown or a Covid outbreak, the one thing as a leader you can’t provide to your team is certainty. Certainty about how long it will go on for, what impact this may have on the wider organisation or whether they (or you) will still have a job. The unknown on the back of
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