Dealing with Redundancy - The year is now almost at the end. It has been a challenging year for both yourself and your staff and you are now facing your biggest challenge of them all…the challenge of having to let some staff go…and just before Christmas! Whilst you...
Helpful Insights On Employee Asistance Programs
Confidence
Confidence – “the feeling of self-assurance arising from an appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities”Sounds simple, doesn’t it! All I have to do is appreciate my abilities or qualities and I’ll have the self-assurance I need to do all the things I want to do...
It is okay to not be okay – as an employer can you recognise symptoms of PTSD?
PTSD - At ACT Curious we are seeing nurses, doctors, police and emergency service staff working in a culture of it’s okay to not be okay. In all emergency service areas, frontline workers are exposed to traumatic events on a regular basis and necessarily develop good...
Seven Step Test – Is your EAP provider meeting your Needs?
Businesses need to have confidence their employees are happy and well, they are ok, they need to have confidence the employee assistance provider is meeting all their needs. A business owner might only stop and think about this question after something has happened –...
Glass half empty or half full – Half well workplaces don’t work.
The glib answer – the glass is always full, half water and half air - is useful. The symbolism of half air strikes a chord when talking about the workplace. If your workplace has a large number of people who are not fully well but not unwell – you may have a half well...
Is your business too small to have an EAP provider?
Starting a small business is continuous work – ask me I know! Weekends blur into weekdays and you become accustomed to telling yourself you will stop and review where you are at as soon as you can get a break. But the risk of stopping keeps outweighing the...
When did you put on the hat saying you can decide if a person will be OK?
Managers and leaders are accustomed to making decisions. Quick decisions, gut reactions, trusting your instinct but if you have put on a hat saying you can decide if a person will be ok, then what? Are you going home worried and wondering about an employee? What is...
The domino effect.
I started ACT Curious EAP Services because I was seeing people struggle to keep their heads up when the world seemed determined to drown them. Businesses were losing their edge because employees weren’t happy. You can see the domino effect: when your employees are...