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.
Wellbeing at Work: From Posters to Practice
One of the things that changed during the response to the pandemic is people’s definition of success and ambition. People aren’t caring less about work, but what they are caring about is what’s happening outside of work and how can work contribute to us thriving, instead of just surviving. In this article, Daria Andrievskaya shares her hospitality management journey and how sustainable wellness can support our dreams.
The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Wellbeing in Management Roles
One of the things that changed during the response to the pandemic is people’s definition of success and ambition. People aren’t caring less about work, but what they are caring about is what’s happening outside of work and how can work contribute to us thriving, instead of just surviving. In this article, Daria Andrievskaya shares her hospitality management journey and how sustainable wellness can support our dreams.
Wellness: An Essential Leadership Competency
Leaders are often evaluated against a set of core competencies that describe the skills, knowledge and behaviours that result in high performance. The standard set of leadership competencies, validated by extensive research, has since become the language of...
What is a Workplace Wellness Leader?
GREAT QUESTION! LET’S DIVE INTO THIS VITAL GROWING ROLE IN ORGANISATIONS It’s no secret that workplace mental health and wellbeing is now one of the biggest issues facing organisations. The COVID pandemic pushed mental health and wellbeing to the front of what was...
Why are managers the key to wellbeing?
Today we are facing a growing epidemic of stress, burnout, and plummeting levels of overall health and well-being. This is a crisis that has been brewing and was only exacerbated by the pandemic. This crisis is impacting every organisation, every team, and every...
Thriving organisations proactively support the wellbeing of their people
When individuals collectively thrive in a workplace then organisations as a whole, are more likely to thrive. At the Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy (ASWA), we believe that healthy, happy employees are the key to creating thriving organisations. When we talk...
Why do managers and leaders need wellbeing skills?
Every day, people are promoted into management roles, many of which never intended to actually become managers. They agree to their new responsibilities to stay employed, make more money, or to forge a pathway for their next career move. As we move into 2020, with...
Silkwood recognised for whole-school wellbeing throughout the pandemic
CONGRATULATIONS to Paulette Scaife, Team & Culture Leader at Silkwood School. Paulette was honoured with the 2020 International Women in Business Silver Stevie® Award for Education Hero of the Year, recognising her achievements in keeping the Silkwood community...