Join us for the next Advisor Connect Meeting by registering below.
This is an opportunity for advisors and other professionals across multiple disciplines to learn from each other, understand each other’s expertise and build a network that is required as trusted advisors to the unique Family Business sector.
Your local Advisor Facilitator will be your main point of contact.
This month's topic: Workplace Mental Health. The hidden cost and how to manage it.
John will talk about his own experience as a leader who experienced serious mental illness before discussing current rates of mental illness and the costs to Australian Business. We will look at how to identify problems in staff and understand how individuals recover in order to promote help-seeking. We will look at current mental health and wellbeing strategies and what elements should be included. The rubber meets the road when having a conversation with a staff member who is struggling. John will cover the core communication skills you require to do this effectively. Further resources for yourself and staff will be identified so you can take the next steps toward a psychologically safe and productive workforce.
Key Learnings: Mental illness costs businesses in lost productivity, absenteeism, turnover and workers compensation claims. Mature businesses have a strategy and budget to manage their workplace mental health and comply with new WHS guidelines on managing psychosocial risks in the workplace. Prevention, early intervention and return to work initiatives have an estimated ROI of $2.30 for every dollar spent. Good leaders have the communication and listening skills to identify mental health problems and address them with staff who experience them.
About our Speaker: John Clark
John is a Mental Health First Aid Master Instructor. He specialises in workplace mental health – providing peer support to workers, leadership and awareness training, psychosocial risk assessment and consultancy.
John holds a Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work, trains peer support workers and leaders in mental health and was nominated in 2020 for a Life Award by the Mental Health Council Tasmania for his work at industrial sites such as Rio Tinto, and Bluestone Mine. Other workplaces include Simplot, Cement Australia, Elphinstone and MMG mine.
He is a volunteer speaker for beyondblue and Suicide Prevention Australia and is passionate about reducing stigma around mental illness, suicide and encouraging others to get help either for themselves, their families or their mates.
We look forward to seeing you there.
For those unable to attend in person this will be a hybrid event. If attending online you will receive instructions upon registering.
By attending you will receive 5 CPD points.
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We look forward to seeing you there.
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