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Resources for Business Leaders

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For Resilience at Work

Hello!

This page has been curated for Business Leaders who are looking for tools and frameworks to support the mental wellbeing of their teams, and also themselves.

Julie's background in business, her Executive Master of Business Administration, and Lived Expertise with Mental Illness are a great resource to support you in your efforts. If you would like a free Discovery session with Julie, to see what tools suit you, book here.

Online Mental Health Directory

Top Resource: A curated resource of Australian online teleweb programs from credible sources.

- eMHPRAC.org.au

Wellbeing Resources

Mental health experts advocate wellbeing as a way of improving our lives. Wellbeing helps us stay resilient, build social support and self-efficacy, and cope with adversity.

- Black Dog Institute

Consulting Employee Guide

When considering the nature of an employee’s job, or considering changes to tasks, it is important to first consult with the employee.

- Thrive At Work

MHFA Engaging Leaders Program

This program will help leaders, decision makers and influencers understand the benefits that MHFA can offer in helping to create mentally healthy workplaces. For enquiries, contact: supportjulie@gillespie.direct

- MHFA Australia

Responsibilities at Work

Mental health problems can be common at work so understanding your mental health responsibilities is critically important.

- ComCare

Legislation

Employers and employees have a shared responsibility to create physically and psychological safe work environments.
Safe Work Australia have made a short video that helps to understand your legal requirements.

- Thrive At Work

Looking After You

Superfriend have put together a resource pack with simple, easy, and free ways you can inject more care for yourself into every day.
Take the time!

- Superfriend

Work Design

The way our work is designed affects how we feel about our job and can influence whether we feel motivated, engaged, bored, or stressed at work.

- Thrive At Work

A Managers Guide to Support

A straight forward guide for managers to be able to effectively support a staff member who may be showing signs of a mental health problem.

- MHFA Australia

Workplace Mental Health

Comcare's Mental Health Community of Practice - a library or videos and reports that can be used to create a robust internal Wellbeing Portal for your people.

- ComCare

Psychosocial Regulation Guide

Addressing pscyhosocial risks in the workplace is key to creating a psychologically safe workplace.

- Thrive At Work

Policy Documents

In Australia, there are national anti-bullying laws and state or territory health and safety bodies that assist people with bullying and harassment in the workplace.

- Thrive At Work

Self-Reflection

Evaluation takes what we do naturally and builds on it. It moves beyond our intuitive sense of what is good or bad, better or worse.

- Lived Experience Australia

Flexible Work Resources

The resources provide strategies for workers, teams, and managers to maximise the benefits and reduce the risks of flexible work.

- Thrive At Work

MHFA Guidelines

The Mental Health First Aid® (MHFA™) techniques are based on these Guidelines. The resources can be used within the organisation to bring awareness and definition to policy.

- MHFA Australia

Healthy Workplace Guides

The Government's National Workplace Initiative, Ahead for Business, and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance (MHWA) have produced these free, easy-to-use guides for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

- Superfriend

Supporting Worker Health

Supportive and responsive managers understand the needs of their workers and help to break down the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental ill health.

- ComCare

Return to Work Program

A return to work (RTW) program is a legally required written plan designed to outline the requirements of an injured and/or unwell employee returning to work specifying what they can and can’t do.

- Thrive At Work