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Corporate Wellness Programs
I provide evidence-based strategies and tools to your employees to optimise wellbeing and build an effective workforce. These skills are essential if businesses truly want to shape positive climate and culture at work.
Since 2023, employers in Australia also have mandatory responsibilities to protect the mental health of their employees (much like their employee's physical health!). Corporate wellness programs are a key individual level strategy to protect employees.
What do businesses get back from investing in employee wellness programs?
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Job
Increased employee job satisfaction, productivity and innovation
Wellbeing
Reduction in employee stress and burnout leading to greater wellbeing
Retention
Less staff absenteeism and turnover improving hiring and training costs
communication
Improvements in focus and communication, leading to improvements in team dynamics, consumer relationships and leadership
Addressing wellbeing as a tangible skill (much like technical skills) will impact business output and culture. The programs listed below are targeted at individual level strategies, and alongside organisatonal level strategies, can reduce psychosocial risk and improve bottom lines for businesses.
THE PROGRAMS
I have two programs addressing the work we need to do as individuals first and then expanding this to growing the reach within the work environment.
FURTHER INFORMATION
What is mental health and wellbeing?
Mental health is a continuum and we all on the mental health spectrum. Where one end of the spectrum is feeling good and functioning well, to mental health illness on the other end. Acknowledging that we ALL slide up and down this spectrum I wanted to implement a proactive approach to mental wellbeing rather than being reactive. Implementing these strategies early instead of waiting until we are “in crisis or struggling” to take action. Mental health is “a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.” (World Health Organisation). So, rather than it being an “illness” let us reframe this to a state of well-being!
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https://delphis.org.uk/mental-health/continuum-mental-health
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Why be proactive?
At some point in time “crisis” may have been present for yourself or someone you love. I am there with you and have not been left untouched. Seeing the impact of mental illness on a parent, I have seen the changes this has taken over the years from when I was a child to now an adult. I am happy to say we now talk about it as a family but how it plays out changes every day. Mental health is an everyday practice for EVERYONE. That is, having a daily practice, much like brushing your teeth! We don’t think twice about maintaining our dental health so why think twice about implementing daily actions and behaviours to maintain our mental and emotional health? Act in the green and yellow zones instead of waiting for the orange and red zone to turn it around!
Experience and background
I have been involved in education, training and leadership coaching within the health and university environments. Over the last few years, I have come to see so much focus and efforts on increasing the technical skills of staff and learners, however the non-technical skills are the ones that create our daily interactions and experiences. Addressing mental and physical wellbeing is part of this, and I’m eager to bring all the skills, knowledge and experiences I have as a physiotherapist and coach together to address BOTH of these aspects.
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