Nine Years of Purpose: Capability Creates Confidence. Confidence Enables Action. Intentional action Creates Progress.
Nine years is a significant milestone, and birthdays naturally invite reflection. When I think about ASWA’s journey, I don’t find myself thinking primarily about the courses we’ve delivered, the organisations we’ve worked with or even the Diploma of Wellness Leadership that we pioneered. I think about the people: the leaders who have trusted us with their professional development, the organisations that have invited us into their workplaces, the wellbeing professionals who have taken what they’ve learned and used it to influence others, and the many people whose working lives have been positively affected because someone decided that wellbeing deserved to be taken seriously.
Finance and Wellbeing: Why Leaders Need to Join the Dots
In a world where organisations are constantly adapting to economic pressure, digital transformation, and rising employee expectations, one constant that remains is that people are an organisation’s most valuable resource. Yet many leadership teams still operate as though finance and well-being are separate priorities, in that a finance measure is a key performance indicator (KPI), and a well-being measure is staff surveys. This disconnect is now costing organisations in terms of staff disengagement, burnout, turnover, and productivity.
Survey: Current Workforce Values Mental Health and Wellbeing, Professional Development
Recently, Ernst & Young conducted their “Better You” survey to examine how employee benefits are valued by both the current and upcoming workforces. By collecting responses from 1,000 employees across different generations and 1,000 current undergraduate students...
Ten ways to integrate wellness into your business
Meaningful and strategic workplace initiatives that are implemented, actioned and monitored will not only cultivate a healthy and positive workplace culture, as discussed in the article titled What is a wellness initiative? they also strengthen business outcomes and...
ASWA Wins GOLD in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards®
I am delighted to share with you that the Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy (ASWA) has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Gold Stevie® Award in the Most Innovative of the Year - Business Service Industries category in the sixth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie...
Three ways to access funding for workplace wellbeing in Australia
As a parent of primary-school aged children, I want them to have the opportunity to be in supportive places of work when they enter the labour market. We know from research that our workplaces need to change in order to support, rather than detract from, our...
Why mentoring is important for managers and team leaders
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves” – Steven Spielberg To rise to meet their potential, most successful managers and team leaders have had a mentor and have been a...
Overcoming self-doubt to rise and meet your goals
Can you remember a time in your life when you doubted your ability to do something that was asked of you or that you wanted for yourself? You know that critical inner voice that’s in all our heads that may question whether we are deserving or capable. I know I can!...
How ‘walking the wellness talk’ boosts our performance
Upon finishing my Advanced Diploma in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in the 90’s I hit the road as a young woman and went traveling. Even then the idea of working in spas appealed to me - the ambience, sense of luxury and all that peace and quiet was seductive! But...
Delivering wellness experiences – the differences between retreats and spas
For all the therapists, practitioners and healers that have worked in both spa and retreat environments, you know that there are some clear distinctions between HOW wellness experiences are delivered in these two different settings. Let me take you through my...