PODCAST · health
Proactive Action
by Emma Parsons
A podcast about creating mentally healthy and psychologically safe workplaces.
Episodes
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Episode 98: How Do You Give Your Support To Each Team Member?
Giving support, whether physically, emotionally or psychologically, to a person is not one size fits all. The support that you give someone, may not be the same support the other person needs. So find out what support your team needs because that will not only help them, but also the business as…
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Episode 97: How To Reduce Workplace Bullying In The Workplace
Workplace bullying is not uncommon, it happens within organisations. So how can we reduce bullying in the workplace? Not only does it affect our team, but it affects the organisation as a whole. It costs us money when people leave and good talent and people. So what are we doing about it? Do we...
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Episode 96: Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your EAP At Work?
What is EAP or Employee Assistance Program? Do you have one at work? Have you utilised it? Not everyone in your team might be familiar with it nor are they eager to reach out to it. As a leader, there are different ways you can encourage them. #EAPstrategy #psychologicallysafeworkplace...
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Episode 95: How A Simple Act of Kindness Can Make A Positive Impact On You & Others
An act of kindness, however small, can make a positive impact on you and others. It doesn't take up lots of time or energy, and the simplest gestures are often the most impactful. I'd love to know if you have experienced a random act of kindness from someone or if you have done one yourself and...
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Episode 94: Have You Taken Our Workplace Mental Health Quiz Today?
Do you know what the psychosocial risks and hazards are in your business? In Proactive Action, we've created a Workplace Mental Health Quiz that will help you up-skill, improve, develop, and understand what to do to prevent psychosocial risks and hazards within your business. I hope you find as...
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Episode 93: It's Not One Size Fits All - How Are You Supporting Your People?
How can you better communicate with your employees? Communication has no hard and fast rules, and what works for one person may not work for another. We are all different, it's not one size fits all, so consider what is important to them when communicating with them. The key to communicating...
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Episode 92: How Do You Know If People Are Feeling Lonely & Isolated
Do you know how to spot signs that someone is feeling lonely and isolated at work? Loneliness and isolation are real workplace health issues. It can be hard to distinguish the feeling of loneliness. It's important to know when people are starting to feel isolated at work, so that we can reach out...
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Episode 91: 2 Ways How To Reward and Recognise Your Team
What do rewards and recognition look like in your organisation? To achieve good levels of rewards & recognition, both extrinsically and intrinsically, we must communicate to our people how we can serve them. Rewards and recognition are low cost, but they bring a high impact to motivate our…
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Episode 90: What Makes You Happy?
What makes you happy? It is a common question that we get. Doing things we want at the moment can make us happy, but usually, these are short-lived. Happiness is something that we can find in simple moments, if we choose to. And it's something we can continue to have if we are in control, we are...
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Episode 89: How To Build Good Habits Minus The Stress
How do we create habits? When we want to start and learn something new, it's always a personal choice and it takes effort to make it work. The first thing to do is establish a habit, eventually becoming a routine. It's a great way to achieve your goals and avoid exhaustion and stress. #habits...
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Episode 88: How Time Management Can Help Lessen Stress At Work
How do you manage time boundaries? People often get stressed out because they feel overwhelmed with the things they need to do. Supporting them on how to manage their time can make them feel more fulfilled because they're getting more done in the day. #time #timemanagement #workstress...
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Episode 87: Why Consultation and Feedback Is Important In Your Business
Why are consultations necessary? To comply with workplace health and safety, we have to encourage consultations within our teams and understand what’s going on within the workplace. Getting excellent feedback from various people in our business shows us what we need to do to move forward and keep...
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Episode 86: How To See The Unseen Risks In Your Business
Are you aware of the unseen risks within your business? We have to understand that there are risks and hazards that we can't see. When we start looking at what mechanisms we have in place in the business and bring transparency around this, we save our people and the company from risks. Start…
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Episode 85: Men's Health Month: Monitoring Psychosocial EAP Peer Groups
How do you monitor what you are doing with regards to EAP and peer support groups in your business? It's really concerning that lot of companies are not extracting data and feedback from their employees. This is crucial because this data can be useful to help your people be mentally healthy and…
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Episode 84: Men's Health Month: The Importance of Data Driven Actions
How do you measure mental health and psychosocial risks in the business? Can you actually measure it? In Proactive Action, we created the MindSafe System which collects data from the business to analyse what is actually happening. Being data driven is crucial as it saves so much time of your…
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Episode 83: Men's Health Month: How Do You Capture The Chatter To Help Minimise The Stress?
We think we are doing our best to support our people, but as it turns out, there is still work related stress present in them. So how do we help sort it out? It's about understanding them from a psychosocial point of view on what is impacting them, what they want and need from the business, and…
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Episode 82: Men's Health Month: Stress Awareness and its Context
There is a massive stigma happening around mental health, especially in male oriented industries. When we're looking at mental health in our workplaces, we need to look at how we break down the stigma and have an effective communication. This video will encourage you to change the way you are...
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Episode 81: What Is Psychosocial Hazards aka Work-Related Stress?
More people are becoming more aware about the term "psychosocial risks" but not what it truly means. There are a lot of factors that impact our mental health safety and recognising it ahead of time is important. #workstress #psychosocialrisks #mentalhealth #workplacewellbeing
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Episode 80: Work Stress: How To Stop People From Worrying
How much time do you spend thinking or worrying about work? Worrying is an indication that we need to do something. We need to make a choice, you can either do something to stop yourself from worrying or don't. There's no point in worrying, so start enjoying life and spending time with people…
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Episode 79: Mental Health is as Important as Physical Health
To keep physically healthy, we exercise and even go to a gym. But to keep our mental health healthy, there is no specific exercise to be done. To take care of our mental health, we have to think about what things we are doing that bring a positive impact and what causes us stress. What are you...
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Episode 78: Stress Awareness: Signs To Watch Out For
How do we know if someone is stressed at work? We can able to notice if someone isn't quite themselves if there is a change in their behaviour. So it is important to know our people to be able to identify if there is a sudden changed in their behaviour and to know what factors that cause the...
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Episode 77: How To Be More Proactive With Your Mental Health
Mental health is as important as physical health. Looking after our mental health is knowing what's going on in our heads. Because what we think creates what we're feeling. If we understand how we're thinking, we can manage our feelings better. How are you going to be more proactive around your...
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Episode 76: How Can We Respond Timely To Mental Health At Work?
A big factor that we must consider when creating a mentally healthy workplace is a timely response to the situation. We need to start looking at sending pulse tests or surveys to our people to see how and where they are at so we can respond to them in a timely manner. Let's be more proactive in...
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Episode 75: How To Create A Safe Space For Hard Conversations At Work
To create a safe space in your workplace you have to encourage people to talk and listen to them sharing your own difficulties. It builds trust and confidence that you are not going to judge them based on your assumptions and make them feel they are not alone. How are you going to strategise…
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Episode 74: How To Improve Engagement In Your Peer Support Group
Most of the organisations today have already started peer support groups to make everyone feel connected with each other. To improve the relationship within peer support groups, you need to make sure that you have a personality type that everyone will talk to. How does your organisation's peer...
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Episode 73: How To Create An Open Culture Around Mental Health
There's still a lot of stigma surrounding discussions and conversations about mental health, especially in the workplace. As an organisation, how do you create an open conversation about mental health within your employees? What difficulties and challenges are you experiencing? In this episode, I...
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Episode 72: How To Bring Organisation And Focus Into Your Life
How do you set your priorities? Are you able to manage them? Sometimes we get overwhelmed and stressed because we've got so much to do. To clear our mind from stress, we have to set our priorities based on what is important. #priorities #importantpriority #stressmanagement #workplacewellbeing
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Episode 71: How To Get Balance and Fulfillment Back Into Your Life
Have you thought about how you are going to live a better life today? To feel fulfilled in life, you must improve what happened yesterday and make today better. #fulfillment #livebettertoday #mentalhealth #workplacewellbeing
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Episode 70: This Simple & Easy Trick Will Help You Control Your Emotions Better
Regulating our emotions is crucial as it affects not only us but also the people around us. This video will help you how to manage your emotions effectively for you to make better decisions. Don’t let emotions overpower you. #emotions #reset #diaphragmaticbreathing #workplacewellbeing
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Episode 69: How To Navigate Conversations Better
Having better conversation in the workplace is vital to keeping a productive and mentally healthy environment. To understand a person better, we need to be compassionate. This can help address situations properly and find a perfect solution to solve a problem. Are you having difficulty with...
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Episode 68: How To Give Our Team Purpose At Work
We always want to see our employees feel motivated and excited to do their tasks, and not just after their wages. A great way to achieve this is by showing them purpose and their value to the organisation or the business. Having the right purpose will give us the right direction. How do you help...
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Episode 67: How To Get That Work-Life Balance You've Always Wanted
We always want to have work-life balance to keep ourselves healthy and be able to spend time with our family, while being productive at work. But we sometimes struggle to keep that balance between personal life and work. Find out n this video how you can manage work-life balance effectively....
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Episode 66: Why Checking In On Your Team's Financial Well-being Is Crucial
This month of January is financial well-being month. It’s the perfect time to look over our finances, and check in with our team's financial well-being as well. It is important to keep on track to maintain a mentally healthy workplace. How do you support your team and employees with their…
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Episode 65: The Importance of Goal-Setting in January
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2022! It is the time to reflect on what you have achieved last year and what you need to change or to keep on doing to achieve your goals for this year. Settings your goals for this year will lead to new beginnings and to a healthier and more productive...
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Episode 64: Do you have a Mental Health Plan in your Business this New Year?
In the new year, let's not forget to look at what plans we've got in place with regards to having a safe and mentally healthy culture within our organisation. Identifying hazards within your business and having proactive measures to reduce them will be a great start of the year for the employees...
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Episode 63: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!
We want to wish every one a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Stay safe and see you all in the new year!
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Episode 62: This Financial Tip Will Help Your Team Survive Christmas
Christmas is around the corner. Some of our team members will have mixed feelings and will be struggling. Although we can’t fix their problems we can let them know there’s dedicated support out there. Financial first aid 1800 007 007 Drug and Alcohol foundation 1300 85 85 84 Beyond Blue 1300 224...
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Episode 61: What Is Important To You?
When we experience stress and challenges in life, we often feel lost and disconnected. By looking at things that are important to us can help us decide how we are going to deal with difficulties and identify what is best for us. Living within the values we believe in will make us feel fulfilled…
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Episode 60: Why Is Self Reflection Important For One's Mental Health?
Have you started to reflect on what you have done and achieved this year? It is important to have time for self-reflection to prepare ourselves for the coming year. Looking back on what has happened this year and the lessons that we have learned from our experiences may help us to plan better for...
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Episode 59: How To Build Your Team's Confidence And Grow Your Business
How does the lack of confidence of a worker within your team affects the business? Having confidence allows a person to utilize their skill set and innovate. It first starts within themselves but you can also help them boost it. Here are some ways how you can improve confidence within your team....
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Episode 58: Why Micromanagement Is A Psychosocial Risk For Your Team & Business
Have you experienced being led by someone who micromanaged you? How does it feel? Or are you a leader who micromanage your team? What results are you getting? If you experienced any of these then I bet that you are not happy with the results. Micromanaging is one of the most complained management...
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Episode 57: When Was The Last Time You Did Something Kind For Someone?
When was the last time you did something kind for someone? Kindness is sometimes overlooked in a workplace because we don't see it as an important action to perform. We are more focused on getting things done at work. Being kind to someone can encouraged them to be kind to others too and it will...
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Episode 56: What Does Stress Awareness Look Like?
Do your tasks and workload cause you so much stress? How do you handle it? The reality is that the workload isn't really the cause of our stress. Rather, it's how we look at things with resistance. Too much stress can affect your work and productivity and it is not healthy for you. Try to look at...
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Episode 55: How Do You Identify Who Are Struggling In Your Team?
Do you usually notice someone who seem out of sorts in your workplace? Did you do something to help them out or did you just ignore them? If someone is struggling within your team, that individual will affect the team's behaviour and productivity; which will also put risks on the business. But...
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Episode 54: What Is Psychological Safety At Work?
How do you foster psychological safety in your team? What are the aspects to look out for? Mental wellbeing is vital to maintain a healthy and safe workplace. There are many ways to promote and develop psychological safety within your team. #proactiveaction #psychologicalsafety #mentalhealth...
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Episode 53: How Can WorkSafe Mental Health Week Help You And Your Team?
As a leader, we need to secure our own well-being first to manage and support our team efficiently. This Mental Health Week is an ideal time to think about how you are able to keep mental health safety going for you and your team at work. This week is a good time to reflect on your situation at...
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Episode 52: Here's How Cognitive Safety Affects Your Team
To have a healthy and safe workplace, we always need to consider cognitive safety. But, as leaders, we need to understand the context of it and how it affects our business and what we can do to mitigate the risks and hazards it may cause. Here are the things you need to consider to have a...
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Episode 51: Are You Liable If You Don't Know? Don't Make This Serious Mistake In Your Business.
As a leader you are liable with anything that affects your team and your business. So asking questions to your team about how they are doing is also your liability. If you find it difficult to ask, just assess the situation and your boundaries to look at the things you need to know....
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Episode 50: Workplace Bullying: Does Your Team Know What & How It Looks Like?
Does bullying and harassment exist in your workplaces? Is having a set of polices against bullying and harassment enough? To build a healthy workplace that is against bullying and harassment you must ensure that the perception, in the context of the kind of culture you want to establish, is…
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Episode 49: Fool-Proof Ways To Create A Mentally Healthy Environment For Our Team
A mentally healthy workplace has a big impact on the productivity and success of every organisation. To build a positive culture in workplaces, we must identify and measure first the risks that a business is facing then address how to sort them out. #proctiveaction #mentalhealthmeasure...
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