What employers need to consider about the Coronavirus Vaccine
As researchers across the world work to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, community leaders are hopeful that its creation may help facilitate an easier and quicker transition back to “normal life” while minimising the effects of the virus’s continued spread. Still, many more wonder about the safety, effectiveness, and impact of a potential immunisation. A recent […]
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 in the US, they examined what benefits people favoured the most and how benefits were actually being utilised. […]
How to cultivate a healthy relationship with wellbeing and performance
Mental health and wellbeing at work needs to be much more than a box-ticking exercise. Here’s how companies are getting their people on board. Sometimes organisations take a tokenistic approach to mental health. They’ll host a morning tea around R U Okay? Day or run a one-off resilience workshop as a way to remedy rising stress levels. […]
Stop unnecessary work – for your teams’ wellbeing!
No one likes busy work. And yet, not only do we all have it, but most managers actually assign it. We all have a few of those tasks that can feel a little pointless and sometimes it’s easier to assign them out…perhaps not easier for your team though. If your team is stressed due to workload 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 Awards. The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business awards program […]
GWI calendar supports wellness integration into workplaces
We love finding and sharing tools, techniques and initiatives that cultivate healthier ways to live and work. The Global Wellness Institute recently released a new tool that hopes to encourage creation of a culture of wellness within organisations and workplaces worldwide. – the 2019 Wellness Moonshot Calendar. The GWI’s Wellness Moonshot is an initiative to […]
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 wellbeing. I am confident that work can be part […]
Wellness education and why qualifications are useful
Never before has the importance of qualifications when seeking your health and wellbeing information been so important. The quantity, diversity and overwhelming nature of the information that is available to most people on the internet these days is more of a hinderance than a help. Gurus, health coaches, medical mediums, scientists and skeptics can offer […]
Wellness vs wellbeing
Shakespeare famously wrote, “What’s in a name?” The answer is a lot. Words, and how they’re activated matter. The subtle ways that words evolve and the “impact” they have can be highly influential on how people think. More and more often recently I have witnessed and experienced heated debates on the definition of the words […]
