Business Support
In Australia, small businesses make up around 97 per cent of all businesses. They really are the backbone of our economy.
As a small business owner, getting all your ducks in a row can be exhausting. When you’re juggling sensitive staff issues and supporting their mental wellness on top of your own workload, your ducks will be struggling to keep their head above water. Constantly putting out fires and neglecting business priorities can leave you stretched thin and overwhelmed.
But you don't have to do it alone. Deb Rae Solutions is the game-changer you're looking for to keep your staff working well and get you back to growing your business. Here’s how.
Workplace Wellness Checklist
When employees feel safe and supported at work, they can do their job well, get satisfaction from their work and want to turn up every day. It also improves staff attraction and retention, productivity and your organisation’s financial sustainability.
Find out how to establish a Workplace Wellness Plan for your organisation with this free checklist.
Why does Workplace Wellness matter?
Workplace wellness is about supporting your employees to be psychologically and mentally healthy. This allows them to do their job well, get satisfaction from their work and want to turn up every day. It also allows the business to improve staff attraction and retention, productivity and financial sustainability.
Mental health concerns are not a fad and won’t just go away. Men and women are facing difficulties every day (often unspoken) and workers expect managers to provide work environments that support their psychological safety.
As more and more employees choose worker-friendly employers who take workplace wellness seriously, gaps in other organisations will become bigger and harder to fill.
“Thank you so much for the support you have provided over the last 12 months. You have always maintained such a professional way of working as well as being approachable and real. ”
WorkWell Express
Our People and Culture service includes as much or as little as you need, and it can ALL be on-site. We come to you with:
Initial Assessment - to identify your needs and set benchmarks to measure progress
Staff Support - confidential sessions to address concerns before they reach EAP level
Coaching - support for managers who are also supporting other staff
Upskilling Sessions - short, sharp and practical on-site sessions that are valued by workers
Policy and Procedure Development - tailored to establish clear and consistent processes
Facilitation - guiding crucial discussions to ensure everyone’s voice is heard and respected
Mediation - effective conflict resolution with less hassle that builds harmony and trust
Staff Consultations - use real-time data to monitor progress and develop solutions
Support for Owners & Managers
We know that small business owners have big responsibilities they're often trying to manage alone. This has become even tougher with costs rising and staff harder to recruit and retain.
You can often find yourself filling in for absent staff, which means working longer hours and sacrificing family time. You’re also trying to juggle the accounts, meetings and staff issues. This can feel like an endless, exhausting trap.
Deb can help you break the cycle and end the overwhelm. She has more than 20 years experience in working with businesses and workplace wellness, and she can help you too.
Your support package will include:
Face to face (on- or off-site) or Zoom sessions
A free briefing to understand your preferences, motivation, previous actions, etc
Working together to identify a range of strategies to test and integrate at work
Review of progress at agreed intervals
Why choose Us?
You’re hiring a trusted colleague who will work onsite as part of your team and understands your business goals.
Our goal is not just surface-level change; it’s about transformation to a sustainable culture of workplace wellness, trust and safety.
We’ll support staff to build personal accountability and let you get back to running your business.
We’ll take the headache out of meeting Qld Psychosocial Hazards Code of Practice requirements.
You’ll work with the same person every time, allowing for a rapport to be built and progress to be tracked effectively.
We’ve walked this path with many organisations and the results speak for themselves.
psychosocial hazards code of practice
From 1 April 2023, every Qld business is expected to comply with the new Psychosocial Hazards Code of Practice. This includes:
Conducting meaningful consultation with staff so practical and effective policy and procedure framework can be established
Implementing processes that make sense in your business - there is no ‘one size fits all’ fix
Taking a collaborative approach across the whole organisation, rather than relying solely on HR or WHS roles
Conducting a risk assessment and implementing strategies and controls to minimise or eliminate risk
The expert team at Deb Rae Solutions can support you to integrate psychological safety practices that meet legislative requirements and improve staff attraction, retention and productivity rates.
FAQs
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Understanding how to respond to a person with mental wellness concerns largely involves listening and questioning rather than having expert knowledge or providing advice. These skills can be learned like any other communication skill, with support from a professional and skilled facilitator. Deb has worked in suicide prevention and completed ASIST and safeTALK training. Significant mental health concerns would be referred to a clinical professional.
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All employees have a right to a workplace that is psychologically safe. From 1 April 2023, Qld businesses are also required to comply with the Psychosocial Hazards Code of Practice, under the Work Health and Safety Act.
Apart from compliance requirements, employers who support staff wellness are more likely to attract and retain employees, which reduces costs and increases productivity.
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Employee Assistance Programs can support staff members who are dealing with a current, urgent concern. However, these services can have a wait list and workers may be reluctant to talk with a stranger or struggle to make a connection with them. They may also have concerns about confidentiality.
Deb Rae Solutions’ mental wellness programs:
Provide a crucial step before EAP
Pre-empt concerns before they become a crisis
Build a worker's capacity to deal with issues as they arise
Build ongoing resilience
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Deb Rae Solutions' programs are a fraction of the cost (in time and finances) of dealing with ongoing and unpredictable staff crises, lost productivity and recruitment and training of new workers.