Wellness
We are a signatory organisation to the Health Benefits of Good Work® initiative of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM). We commit to creating safe, healthy workplaces. We acknowledge that good work can play a central role in contributing to people’s health and wellbeing.
Development at Work Australia runs Wellbeings Programs that focus on psychological wellbeing. You believe in the importance of wellbeing at work, but, sometimes it seems like you need some help to develop it. You may see a high number of staff resignations, reports of increased sick leave, increased stress leave or workplace bullying. You’ve provided management training but sometimes the leaders in your organisation don’t exemplify the leadership values and qualities you wish they would. The solution is to identify and address the causes of a lack of workplace wellbeing.
Development at Work Australia can assist you to discover the root causes of a lack of workplace wellbeing – and address them. Let us help you help your leaders to lift their leadership game – with the Managers Role in Retention Program. Call us now to discuss how we can help you identify the causes of a lack of workplace wellbeing and address them via a tailored Wellbeings Program for all your people. Your employees get to experience evidence based tools and techniques which develop the different aspects of wellbeing, resilience and happiness. You will experience the peace and satisfaction of having a workplace wellbeing program that works to create a positive workplace culture.
Strengthening Business Wellbeing
Strengthening Personal Wellbeing
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Case Studies
We have worked with organisations, including Defence component suppliers and home care providers, to analyse the key causes of satisfaction and dissatisfaction at work and remedy them via tailored in-house solutions. We have worked with many organisations to address specific issues via Wellbeings workshops and The Managers Role in Retention. We have worked with organisations at the forefront of workplace wellbeing (including government agencies and universities) to give them a Wellbeings experience via our public and in-house Wellbeings workshops – which provided participants with more tools, techniques and resources to improve wellbeing for themselves and others.
Hear from our clients
“I thoroughly recommend the Wellbeings training facilitated by Bridget Hogg. I take recruiting and retention of my staff seriously and part of my retention strategy is to assist my staff maintain their health and wellbeing. I want my team to be the best they can be at work and in their life outside of the workplace. I particularly recommend the active constructive response exercise which will enable people to reflect on their general communication style, improve working relationships and offer some strategies to improve communication in any situation.”
Susan, Manager, Adelaide
“It is critically important that we all take the time to stop and participate in training from time to time that enables us to calibrate our current practices and activities in the wellbeing and resilience space. I enjoyed the opportunity to listen, engage and learn from others in the room as well and have the direct conversation with a trainer who shares a breadth of knowledge and experience relative to the subject matter at hand. I recommend the training as a valuable exercise to ensure people are being effective and understanding in the work environment”
Jason Downs, Department of State Development
Australian Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Good Work
Development at Work Australia is proud to be a signatory to the Australian Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Good Work (HBGW). As a signatory we demonstrate our commitment to creating workplace wellbeing and workforce engagement. It’s our belief good work plays a central role in contributing to people’s health and wellbeing. We believe in the HBGW and the positive impact we have.
The Triad
The emotions we experience and the life we lead are a result of our:
- focus
- physiology and
- language
Tony Robbins calls this The Triad. Our focus and language/meaning are reflected in our “rules” or beliefs. To discover yours, complete these sentences “Life is…” “People are …” ”I am…” If…then…”
Our Wellbeings events help you find your way through the maze of wellbeing and resilience models, techniques and exercises proposed by others (including Tony Robbins, Martin Seligman, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and techniques proposed in NLP and psychology, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy).
Our Wellbeings workshops will help you know:
- Where can I improve my experience of life?
- What techniques can address this?
- Which ones will work for me now – given my current feelings, the time I have available and my preferences?
Do you know how much benefit your organisation can realise if you instigate a Workplace Wellbeing Program, incorporating psychological wellbeing? Ask us for our overview of Wellbeings Program sessions and email bridget@developmentatwork.com.au to ask for a FREE no obligation meeting.
We can run a Wellbeings program tailored for your people at your premises or you can book us to run sessions as part of your in-house program.
Contact us now to find out more about how these cost effective services can help individuals and your organisation.
Test out exercises to improve:
- your mood,
- your relationships,
- your resilience and
- your mindset.
Change your world by experiencing what it’s like to operate from your best state.
Learn which exercises work for you and return to work with ideas for how you can continue to improve your wellbeing – with more optimism, more clarity. Facilitated by Bridget Hogg.
To find out more about having Bridget design and run a Wellbeings Program for you, please email bridget@developmentatwork.com.au or phone 0477 016 966.
Resilience at Work
Development at Work Australia can incorporate resilience strengths testing into its Wellbeing program with your people – and we offer individual resilience coaching. Talk to us about how Bridget can help you.
Positive Education
Development at Work Australia also runs sessions for students to improve psychological wellbeing. In conjunction with these we run careers sessions to help students feel more comfortable choosing their career direction and to develop skills in job search, finding the hidden jobs, resume writing and interview skills. Need support for your teaching or careers staff? Bridget can run sessions for them covering many different topics including best practice resume writing and interview skills to help them to have more confidence in coaching students.
Want to learn from others and share wellbeing resources?
Share Wellbeing events, research and resources with other schools and organisations. Let others know about these free resources to help us share ideas, results and more.
Measuring Wellbeing: A Symposium
Martin Seligman, known as the founder of positive psychology, was in Adelaide in early 2014 speaking about wellbeing and the PERMA model. Hear what he said, plus see videos of many of the other speakers who spoke that week on wellbeing below.
Professor Martin Seligman Lecture: Global Advances in Wellbeing Science, 13 February 2014
Former Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Professor Martin Seligman, in Adelaide to discuss cutting edge developments in Positive Psychology and wellbeing science (at Adelaide Oval on 13 February 2014).
Professor Felicia Huppert – National Measurement and Flourishing
Dr Felicia Huppert draws on her research and experience in measuring national wellbeing, and discusses how to shift a population towards flourishing.
Dr Peggy Kern – Introducing the PERMA-Profiler
Dr Peggy Kern will introduce the PERMA Profiler, a free online validated measure of wellbeing for adults. She will also discuss the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Wellbeing
Brigadier General (ret.) Rhonda Cornum
Analysis of the Global Assessment Tool that was developed and implemented in the US Army as a comprehensive measure of soldier fitness and wellbeing.
Darren Coppin – From a Welfare State to a Wellbeing State
An uncovering of some of the remarkable findings from a practical application of the principles of positive psychology to help deliver government policy.
Development at Work Australia is there for you
Development at Work Australia can help you.
Contact us on +61 8 8322 8455 or bridget@developmentatwork.com.au for help and advice about attraction, retention, managing the people aspects of change and creating workplace wellbeing.
Please view the latest issue of our newsletter – Dinkum Oil.
Click here for radio interview with Bridget Hogg on psychological wellbeing (20 minutes).
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