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Our approach to workplace health

Employers have a great opportunity to unlock a healthier, happier, higher performing workforce, by empowering their people to better manage their wellbeing, at work and beyond.

To help develop a workplace health program, Bupa have created a work health model as a framework for a holistic plan. It is drawn from a philosophy that any comprehensive wellbeing program should include each quadrant of the model; physical health, personal influences, psychological health and environmental influences.

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Our solutions

We offer a range of seminars, workshops, online learning modules and resource materials that can be tailored to suit your organisation.

We pride ourselves on the positive feedback we receive from our sessions’ interactive format, particularly the focus on prompting group discussion and actively working through case studies. All of our workshops and seminars are run by expert facilitators who are experienced in presenting to a variety of professional audiences, and related resources are provided after every session. All content is evidence-based and grounded in principles of positive psychology, as well as clinically valid and legally compliant with current state and federal OH&S legislation.

An individual’s mental health and wellbeing can be influenced by cultural factors such as social connections and personal behaviours such as stress management.

Targeting mental health and wellbeing

Our mental health and wellbeing services are categorised within the two quadrants; Healthier minds and Healthier cultures.

Healthier minds focusses on the mental health and wellbeing of the individual, so the health factors we look to influence are related to stress management, personal resilience and healthy behaviours.

Healthier cultures focus on the dynamics of the workplace so we target those who can influence this; managers and leaders as well as things the organisation can change through teams and relationship building.

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Mental health and wellbeing health factors and desired outcomes


Healthy behavioursEncouraging the development of positive and healthy habits for wellbeing, such as setting health goals, enabling work-life balance, and seeking support when needed.

Desired outcomes:Healthy lifestyles Better personal communication

Stress and resilienceGetting support to effectively manage or adapt to issues that may cause stress.

Desired outcomes: Managing stressBuilding resilience Positive coping skills

Mental health managementDeveloping the ability for people to better manage occasional or ongoing mental health conditions like anxiety or depression.

Desired outcomes: Creating mental health awareness

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Social supportEncouraging a culture of healthy social support, including team building, fostering positive relationships and improving social connectivity.

Desired outcomes: Respectful workplace behavioursEffective workplace communicationSupportive relationshipsManaging grief, loss and traumaCreating champions and peer support

Healthy leadershipDevelopment of supportive leaders who are role models of a healthy culture.

Desired outcomes: Healthy managerial action (responsibility)Healthy teamsValues driven behaviour

Health benefitsImproving access to appropriate healthcare resources such as health insurance, medical and wellness services.

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The steps for choosing the right mental health and wellbeing services

1Identify your target group. Do you need to change individual behaviours or those of the organisation?

For individuals, review the solutions under Healthier minds, for the organisation, review solutions for Healthier cultures.

Narrow down what you’d like to achieve.

Each health factor can be further divided into specific desired outcomes. Check the list on the next page for a key of outcomes.

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Decide what level of intervention you require in your organisation:

• Introductory – assists with raising awareness by promoting simple preventative health messages and helpful strategies.

• Intermediate – develops a broader understanding of a health factor or topic, helps shift strategies into actions to initiate positive change, and supports individuals’ skill development.

• Targeted support – provides in-depth training for key personnel in addressing specific issues, manages them with confidence, and creates frameworks to help implement long-term protective measures within a workplace.

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Creating champions and peer support

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Healthy behaviours solutionsHealth outcome: healthy lifestyle

Introductory

Healthy lifestyle habits

This session provides essential information about how our bodies and minds can work best in the context of busy working lives. It provides evidence-based guidance on managing our cravings for unhealthy foods and activities, increasing exercise when we lack motivation, staying positive, and achieving a healthy balance between work and play.

With realistic case studies, the theme of this session is that genuine holistic health is achieved via the hundreds of small decisions we make each day, and we can gradually work towards better health by making small personal adjustments.

Format: seminar Duration: 60 mins (or 30 min bite)

Intermediate

The right mix

This solution-focused session explores the mechanisms for setting healthy goals and for turning them into long-term habits. It avoids preaching but simply provides the evidence to encourage people to make their own judgments of their lifestyle choices.

The differences between conscious decisions to abstain from unhealthy behaviours (e.g. smoking, excessive drinking etc.), compulsions and habits will be explored, for the purposes of helping participants to set an action plan that is sustainable and focused on the right mix for the long term.

Format: seminar Duration: 60 mins

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Smoking cessation

This seminar is specifically designed to motivate and encourage healthy behaviours when it comes to smoking, and demonstrate effective methods for cessation. It will look at ‘habit’ and explore the impact of triggers, as well as the changes of routine that are critical for change in habit to occur. It will also cover the different nicotine replacement therapies that are available to help improve the transition from smoker to non-smoker.


Healthy sleep

This session explains the basics of sleep, explores what is considered healthy sleep, and examines why sleep problems emerge. It encourages participants to take positive steps to adjust their sleep-related behaviours, rather than making them more anxious about sleep. Participants are also provided a range of strategies that can assist in developing healthy, sustainable sleep patterns.


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Targeted support

Beyond the craving

This positive, health promoting session is built around increasing motivation and understanding, to help enable individuals to better understand and manage unhealthy habits or addictions. It can cover topics such as working excessively, addictive relationships, money/spending problems, binge eating, smoking, drug and alcohol issues, and gambling. Similar principles underlie all of these problems. In understanding them, we are better able to avoid them or recognise when we, or our colleagues, might need help.

Format: seminar Duration: 2 hrs

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Health outcome: effective personal communication

Introductory

Messages that matter: boosting your communication skills

This seminar offers a refreshing perspective on effective communication that can help participants build stronger and healthier connections. It provides an opportunity to practise open and positive communication techniques in realistic situations. Scenarios include talking through changes at work, talking to your manager, helping colleagues, and having difficult and sometimes emotional conversations with people outside of work. Eight constructive strategies are detailed and participants are encouraged to apply them in ways that suit their own personal style. This is a fascinating subject area, and this session provides an opportunity to make some positive changes to how we express ourselves and listen to others.


Intermediate

Giving and receiving feedback in healthy ways

This session focuses on building the skills and confidence to engage in respectful, assertive conversations with others, to help prevent potential difficulties becoming serious problems. The Manager and Leader stream of this training is designed to provide you with the skills to seek, give and receive feedback, and to coach team members towards adopting healthy, respectful communication styles. The All Staff Training stream focuses on tools needed to engage in respectful conversations with each other to help maintain positive relations and build self-awareness.


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Assertive communication at work

This practical session applies the principles of assertive communication in the professional sphere. It covers how to be an assertive communicator, demonstrates constructive ways to give and receive feedback, explains how to effectively manage passive and aggressive communicators, and gives tips to ensure your message is heard and appreciated by others.



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Health outcome: managing stress

Introductory

From surviving to thriving

This dynamic seminar combines both stress and resilience, and encourages a preventative approach to dealing with stress. It examines the difference between healthy stress and unhealthy stress, and explains the impact that both have on performance. While exploring different ways of managing stress, participants will be trained to make an action plan for the future. The objective is to build their resilience at work, and support good mental health and wellbeing generally.


Introduction to stress and resilience

Introduction to stress and resilience is designed to help build your people’s awareness around stress, its causes and impacts, and provide practical strategies to help build resilience in stressful situations.

Format: online course Duration: 5 x 8 mins sessions


Intermediate

Stress busters

This is an interactive one hour seminar that teaches us neuropsychological approaches to managing stress, and takes a deeper look at reducing the negative impacts of stress through some practical mental and physical practices. Learn some practical stress busting techniques that can be applied in both professional and personal settings.


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High octane stress busters

This focused seminar looks at the common stressors associated with high demand professions, such as tight deadlines and long hours, and how to manage these challenges while still meeting expectations. It includes advice on relaxation methods to suit the individual, and strategies to help prevent depression, anxiety and substance abuse.


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Health outcome: building resilience

Introductory

Striking the balance

This session is about analysing small changes that participants can make to the help them feel happier and be more productive. The focus is on work/life balance and it explores the range of ways we can adjust our working lives to help achieve a feeling of satisfaction and overall wellness. What we value in life should be reflected in how we spend our time – but this isn’t always possible. This session looks at the criteria used to allocate time for certain tasks, the barriers to enjoying regular relaxation, common stressors to look out for and some great tips for restoring work/life balance.


Positive psychology at work

This interactive session provides a unique opportunity for you to learn some key principles of Positive Psychology and apply them in the workplace. Participants will develop an understanding of the principles of optimal human function and learn a simple model for building optimism, gratitude, engagement, positive relationships, and sense of purpose. Through individual and small group exercises, participants will come to realise the importance of explanatory style and how they might discipline their thoughts.



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Emotional intelligence at work

This session provides a useful definition of emotional intelligence where we cover the concepts of self-awareness, the connection between our thoughts, feelings and actions, as well as empathy and self-regulation. Participants can develop their own action plan for better handling their emotions and helping others to build upon their own self-awareness and empathy levels. All the material presented is evidence-based and it challenges people to make small changes in how they think and behave to help enhance their productivity and sense of wellbeing.


Zen at work (mindfulness)

This session provides an introduction to the notion of mindfulness, with guidance on how to live more in the moment and train your mind to have a rest occasionally. Simple meditation exercises as well as tips for staying focused and relaxing at will are provided.



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Health outcome: positive coping skills

Introductory

UCOPEA: 6 steps for positive coping and resilience

This session guides participants through UCOPEA – an easy to understand model for those wanting help master the art of “coping”. The session looks at applying UCOPEA to improve coping skills both in and outside of work. This session helps attendees to look at the positives of everyday challenges and how to use these to improve their personal resilience. Practical strategies for managing unhelpful thoughts are also covered.


Introduction to work-life balance

The Introduction to work-life balance module guides participants through the key factors that contribute to a sense of harmony and equilibrium.

Some simple tools will assist in evaluating one’s own need for work-life balance, and identifying where health and wellbeing come into play, before applying some practical strategies for promoting satisfaction in our work and personal lives.

Format: online course Duration: 5 x 8 mins sessions


Intermediate

Handling change at work

Although we understand that organisational change is largely inevitable, we can find it difficult at times. In cases where organisations restructure or job functions change, individuals can find themselves becoming resistant or stressed. This seminar explores why change is often necessary in workplaces and helps participants to understand common reactions to change. It takes a practical and proactive approach to help individuals adapt, build resilience and increase their optimism through positive thinking.


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UCOPEA: coping with challenges and change

This extended, interactive workshop takes an in-depth look at the 6 stages of coping illustrated by the UCOPEA model. It explains the importance of coping with change, introduces interesting case studies, and conducts small group activities that challenge participants to apply what they have learned. With each letter of UCOPEA representing a step in the coping process, participants are guided through a realistic case study to illustrate the benefits and application of each stage.

Format: workshop Duration: 3 hrs


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Intermediate

Open minds: mental health basics

Open minds explores what the terms ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’ mean, how our circumstances, work practices and lifestyle habits can have an impact on our mental health, and how mental health problems like anxiety and depression can affect people at work. This includes a check list of the important markers of mental health and practical strategies for seeking help and getting back on track.



Health outcome: creating mental health awareness

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Social support solutions

Health outcome: respectful workplace behaviours

Introductory

From strength to strength

This session looks at how we can grow and maintain positive workplace cultures by tackling common problems that often undermine the positives at work. The seminar includes minimising harmful gossip, embracing diversity, preventing bullying and harassment, and learning how to speak up in constructive ways.

Format: seminar Duration: 60 min (or 30 min bite)

Intermediate

Respect and equality at work

This workshop outlines the ethical boundaries around harassment and bullying. It aims to help people identify when it is occurring and to understand some of the risk factors that underpin high risk behaviours, such as mental health issues. The session explores why sexual harassment and bullying can occur in Australian workplaces, how to manage it and outlines ways to build equality and respect among colleagues.


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Understanding and preventing domestic violence

This session explores key issues relating to domestic and/or family violence by examining the prevalence and impact on individuals and workplaces. This session will assist individuals to develop an understanding of domestic violence and some common myths that surround it. Questions and discussion during the session are welcome, with the aim of increasing participants’ confidence and ability to address this sensitive and emotive topic.



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Health outcome: effective workplace communication


Introductory

Healthy conversations at work

Healthy conversations explores a range of communication strategies that may be helpful to apply in the workplace. It sheds light on how our communication style reflects our professional persona, and some positive changes we can make to help ensure our conversations are more honest and productive in the workplace.


Introductory

The key to socialconnectedness

This session highlights the importance of social connectedness in workplaceculture. It explains what being a supportive team member actually means, and provides tips for cultivating healthy workplace relationships. It also examines the use of social connection as a preventative approach toworkplace challenges like bullying. Participants will acquire skills for mentoring and looking after others, including how to help people who may be isolated or struggling with specific challenges.


Intermediate

Managing conflicts at work

This session explores the impact of conflict at work, and provides guidance on how to avoid it where appropriate and manage it where necessary. It gives participants the ability to choose their preferred style of managing conflict, providing tips and insights to help ensure people work through problems without harming working relationships.

Format: seminar Duration: 60 min


Appreciative inquiry

This highly interactive training session provides an introduction to the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) method and imparts practical tools for implementing AI in teams. It explains how to value the strongest qualities in a team, to help turn challenges (like dealing with change, or meeting aggressive business targets) into positive opportunities. You will learn techniques for building team optimism, as well as ways to use the Appreciative Inquiry method in day-to-day conversations. All done in a way that builds creativity, innovation and team high achievement.

Format: seminar Duration: 60 min


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Health outcome: effective workplace communication

Introductory

Understanding client expectations

In this session, participants will be shown simple techniques for assessing customer and client needs, using active and reflective listening techniques, and by learning the art of paraphrasing. Using some simple case studies, participants will engage in group problem solving exercises aimed at refining their abilities to think quickly and accurately about client needs. We will examine the links between this enhanced ability and reduced client and personal stress, as well as ways to help colleagues develop and apply these skills.


Intermediate

Managing client expectations

This interactive session uses a series of case studies to build a discussion around helping participants to exceed client expectations, adjust them where necessary and ultimately achieve greater mutual trust. Topics include: ‘the role that empathy plays’; ‘reality checking’ (providing clients with accurate information and advice to develop realistic expectations); ‘the polite push-back’ (techniques for saying ‘no’ in a manner that is respectful and maintains trust); and the importance of providing regular reports to clients about deliverables. Participants will leave with a three point action plan for implementing key learnings from the session.



Targeted support

Managing conflict with clients

This session is aimed at those dealing directly with customer demands or complaints to help them better manage conversations, explore possible options and then reach agreement. It looks at how customer aggression can take its toll and explores ways to build resilience and optimism while managing customer challenges. Participants can choose from a range of techniques to help lower the stress associated with direct customer relations.




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Health outcome: supportive relationships



Juggling skills for parents

This session is for busy parents who are juggling challenging work roles and raising children. It can be done, but some approaches are more successful and less stressful than others. The session looks at the things that really matter in raising healthy happy kids, what to let go, recruiting extra support, ensuring you remain optimistic and how to make your time with your kids really count.


Positive parenting

Positive Parenting provides proven methods and insights, specific to all younger age groups, with an emphasis on building resilience in your children and family as a whole. It explores the concept of positive parenting, outlines the basic needs of children, looks at the important psychological notion of resilience in children and suggests some practical ways to build a resilient family.

Format: online course Duration: 20 mins


Introductory

The people who matter most

This is an eye-opening seminar which focuses on the impact that our personal relationships (and how we manage them) can have on our mental and physical health. It examines the influence of family, friends, partners and kids as well as our community connections. The session explores what maintains healthy relationships, and the risk factors that may destabilise positive connections. It also investigates the impact that common challenges like poor mental health, drugs and alcohol can have on relationships. The session concludes with tips on staying together, handling changes and break ups.


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Health outcome: supportive relationships


Parenting: new and expecting

This upbeat session takes a realistic approach to managing the first 12 months as a parent. Starting with resettling after the birth, it then covers the big issues during the first few weeks at home with a new baby (feeding, sleeping, development, plus maintaining your own health and happiness). The joys and challenges are examined, and we cover surviving that first year and learning to enjoy new parental roles. This is designed to be a reassuring session, based on sound research, which encourages new parents to manage their new ups and downs, while seeking support to minimise common anxieties.


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Parenting toddlers

This practical session invites parents (and parents to be) to consider the evidence around positive parenting techniques that build life skills and promote healthy childhood development. It is designed to help with parenting during the early formative years and looks specifically at the challenges faced during the 1-3 year period. This approach embraces the many differences in families and focuses on proven techniques to help ensure kids feel safe and nurtured, as well as helping families manage challenges like child care and sleep routines, and to prepare children for kindergarten. There will be ample time for questions and discussion as we consider issues unique to each family.


Intermediate

Coping with conflict in relationships

This session looks at why conflict tends to occur when we work closely or live with people, the common reactions we have to conflict, and how to differentiate between issues that should be acted upon promptly and those that can be let go. Participants are challenged to analyse scenarios and discuss the best responses in order to thoroughly work through conflict and achieve better understanding. They will also be provided with tips for avoiding conflict, learn how to manage it more effectively and move on, and complete an action plan to set some goals for the future.


Parenting teenagers

This session explains why teenagers behave as they do, what’s behind rebellious behaviours, when to worry, and when to take decisive action as a parent. The session includes an overview of the key developmental milestones teenagers face on their way to adulthood, and explores our role in helping them. There is information on setting effective boundaries, some amusing case studies and some tips to calm the waters when adolescents behave in challenging ways.



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Health outcome: managing grief, loss and trauma


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Intermediate

Understanding loss and grief

Understanding loss and grief provides a summary about how people generally experience loss, highlighting different types of loss experiences and the ways people express grief. There are many unconscious responses that kick in to help us manage grief, and it lowers anxiety if we can recognise them for what they are. This session explores differing views on the stages of grief and provides practical strategies for helping yourself, others and children to deal with the inevitable losses in life. We will focus on healthy coping skills to help you come to terms with loss and get your wellbeing back on track.


Targeted support

Helping people recover from traumatic experiences

This session provides an in-depth exploration of the impact of trauma on those we manage and how we can provide support. Sometimes resettlement after a traumatic event is problematic and recovery takes a longer period of time. The session covers, in simple terms, the various trauma-related mental illnesses that can occur (PTSD and others) and participants will have the opportunity to take part in role plays to build skills in assisting staff in practical ways. The session also examines the link between performance problems and trauma-related mental health issues, and provides opportunities for debate and discussion, using real-life case studies.


Health outcome: creating champions and peer support

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Targeted support

Act now: mental health crisis response

This critical training session deals with managing mental health crises at work (e.g. depressive episodes, breakdowns, panic attacks) and extreme emotional responses (e.g. when someone receives terrible news). It explains acute mental illness responses and how we can best help those affected before the arrival of an ambulance, the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team (CATT) team or the person’s loved one. It covers managing things like psychotic episodes, trauma and grief responses and keeping people safe, as well as information about looking after yourself post-incident. An online preparatory module covering the basics of understanding mental illness precedes this workshop to ensure all participants begin the training session with a similar level of knowledge.

Format: online module and workshop Duration: 20 min online module and 3 hr workshop

Mental wellbeing champions program

This training provides basic knowledge in the mental health area so the selected group can speak to people confidently, help raise awareness and address stigma. It also takes them through the ways in which they might help individuals towards better health outcomes and work with others to improve the broader organisational climate. These two levels of skill will help ensure that everyone has a chance to achieve better mental health and wellbeing at work, and staff requiring support have someone pointing them in the right direction. The training focuses on building useful skills in listening, reframing conversations to be more solutions focused and suggesting people seek help if warranted. It also covers what the research says is most likely to result in achieving a truly health promoting workplace.

Format: workshop Duration: 3.5 hrs


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Health outcome: healthy managerial action (responsibility)

Healthy leadership solutions

Introductory

Mental health and safety for leaders

Mental health and safety for leaders is a workshop aimed at building awareness about good mental health practices for leaders and proactive prevention of mental health issues. The legal responsibilities of health and safety officers are covered in detail, and a systematic approach for developing an action plan is provided in order to help reduce risk and promote psychological health and safety at work.


Intermediate

Back on track: understanding mental health issues in your people

This session covers the support your workplace can offer for people with mental health conditions. It highlights the responsibilities and obligations of managers who are concerned that a staff member might be experiencing a mental health issue. The session provides a realistic, workplace-focused introduction to recognising the signs of mental health issues, and understanding how early intervention can help reduce the risk of escalating performance problems.



Understanding mental health issues in your people online course

This online seminar provides a realistic, workplace-focused introduction to recognising the signs of mental health issues, and understanding how early intervention can help reduce the risk of escalating performance problems.Understanding mental health issues in your people provides managers with an easy to use model to assist them in starting a meaningful discussion with their staff members and try to achieve a positive outcome for everyone involved.


Back on track: managing people with mental health issues

This session guides participants in how to manage a staff member who has mental health issues or a diagnosed mental illness in a way that respects their rights, helps increase their chances of recovery, and minimises risks to the organisation. The session explores “reasonable adjustments” in the workplace. These include consideration of timelines and goals, supporting treatment strategies, managing behaviours (e.g. absence, lateness, social withdrawal) and gaining support from your colleagues.



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Health outcome: healthy managerial action (responsibility)


Managing staff with mental health issues

Building on the content covered in Understanding mental health issues in your people, this module elevates managers from initial conversations around performance and mental health, to a more formal process that helps them and their teams to respond appropriately to issues and responsibly reduce individual and organisational risks.


Back on track: maximising workplace wellbeing

This session identifies workplace risks to mental health, provides information on establishing a mentally healthy workplace and makes recommendations for developing a management style that promotes mental health. It also features tips to embed a sense of safety and wellness with staff, including the importance of building connectedness at work.



Back on track: return to work issues

This workshop outlines how managers and HR personnel can support an employee who is absent or returning after sick leave for a mental health issue. Session includes specifics on responsibilities of managers, effective communication, understanding organisational policy on return to work, the important role the employee plays in their own return to work process and how to introduce workplace adjustments and monitor the return to work process.


Targeted support

UCOPEA: coping with challenges and change for managers

This interactive workshop takes an in-depth look at the 6 stages of coping illustrated by the UCOPEA model. It explains the importance of coping with change, features interesting case studies and includes small group activities that challenge participants to apply what they have learned to the people management issues they may face.



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Health outcome: healthy teams


Introductory

Supportive teams

This session explores the ways we can assist our colleagues or team members who are struggling with mental health or life problems such as depression, anxiety, family matters, grief, and the effects of stress. It looks at recognising when a team member needs support, starting a positive discussion, the importance of confidentiality, drawing sensible boundaries, and ensuring our work relationships are sustainable. Equally suitable for managers and staff.


Stepping up: strong healthy leadership

This session is especially for leaders who want to make a difference to the organisation’s culture through managing their people well. The session is a “best of” summary of the evidence-based techniques that help bring out people’s strengths and boost wellness and productivity. It covers understanding why people behave as they do in teams, helping people cope with workplace change, cultivating optimism and a reminder of the best communication strategies.


Managers guide to mental wellbeing booklet

This guide is a useful resource to keep handy to educate existing and new managers on the sensitive, complex topic of mental health and wellbeing. The guide includes information on what is a mental health issue and how common it may be, what is the responsibility of the manager to help those with mental health issues, what types of measures they should take, how to help prevent these problems from developing or getting worse, and where to go to for help and support. The guide can be purchased individually or together with your mental health and wellbeing session.

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Maximising workplace wellbeing

Productive and satisfied employees represent more than just good management practices – they are a crucial element to a successful business. The Maximising Workplace Wellbeing module contains information to help managers understand the factors that contribute to healthy, productive work environments. It provides managers with techniques that can assist in improving staff wellbeing and performance.



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Health outcome: values driven behaviour

Targeted support

Using culture & values for positive mental health outcomes at work

This dynamic and fully-customised workshop helps reconnect participants with their core values, their reasons for working and their goals in life. This forms the framework for exploring your organisation’s values and how they can be enacted via everyday behaviours. Positive mental health outcomes are a focus, as well as managing and minimising situations where low-grade inappropriate behaviours in teams start to occur.


Health outcome: healthy teams


Intermediate

Navigating politics at work

Politics at work is largely inevitable and needn’t be a bad thing. Working constructively with office politics can be done in ways that help promote good mental health at work, as well as fairness and respectful behaviours – and this session will show you how you might go about this.

It explores the dynamics of organisational politics, and the drivers for individuals to play certain roles, and how best to work within the prevailing political climate at work. It highlights determinants of ethical workplace behaviours while providing some practical day-to-day tips on influencing people in positive ways.


Targeted support

Navigating politics and how to influence people

In order to prevent office politics from becoming a problem, we need to learn how to navigate our workplace and how to meet our own objectives while remaining fair and respectful of others.

This extended session explores the nature of organisational politics and provides some practical tips on how to navigate workplace politics, and positively influence others. The session includes some challenging case studies and dilemmas that participants can discuss and work on in small groups, plus an opportunity to set some goals to help ensure optimal outcomes at work.


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Online health assessment

The online health assessment surveys aspects of an individual’s current health status so they can receive a snapshot of some of their health risks and tips to improve their lifestyle. These might include eating better, reducing blood pressure, and moving more. They can then discuss it with their general practitioner who can compare their results with Australian population health guidelines and help them set realistic, well-planned health goals. Participants are encouraged to log in again regularly over the duration of the campaign to repeatedly take the survey and compare their results over time.

You will receive a clear indication of your organisation’s current health status overall, relative to Bupa benchmark data. These insights can assist with developing a workplace health plan specifically targeted to your company’s health risks and needs. The assessment is a cost effective way to reach large, geographically challenged workforces, and a tool that can assist with evaluating your program on an annual basis.

Format: online Duration: 15 mins

Health outcome: health program

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Health content

Educational content is key to supporting wellbeing initiatives and should be readily available for those seeking information. Bupa has a range of health content resources available to share with employees. Fact sheets covering a multitude of topics can be selected to be shared online or as printed resources. Bupa also has a dedicated workplace health website bupahealthierworkplaces.com.au which provides tips and thought leadership on topics that can help you develop and implement a workplace health plan.


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Health outcome: health program


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Activity Plan

A key to successfully encouraging healthy behaviours in your people is consistent and regular engagement. Bupa can help arrange a full calendar of activities which allows your employees to experience a range of health check-ups and receive education on a variety of topics that cover each quadrant in our work health model.

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Healthier bodies

Heart health checks

Cooking demonstrations

Group fitness classes

Telephonic health coaching

Onsite massage

Mental wellbeing seminars

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Health insurance consultations

Managers mental health training

Group health challenges

Flu vaccinations

Wellness or fitness expo

Ergonomic assessments

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Health outcome: health protection

If you set up a corporate health plan with us, your employees will benefit from:

• A range of competitive corporate health cover options, including hospital and extras cover for domestic employees and overseas visitors – whether they are young or mature singles, couples or families

• Access to our Bupa consultants who can facilitate group presentations or one-on-one sessions with your employees to guide new members through the join process

• Corporate exclusive wellbeing offerings included as part of your plan (to be set up specific to your organisation)

• Access to our national network of hospital and extras providers which can help reduce or eliminate out-of-pocket expenses

• Tailored workplace health solutions if you choose to arrange additional wellness services.

Support for your organisation -As your health partner, we will provide you with:

• A dedicated account manager and branded marketing collateral including the details of your corporate plan to share with employees Workplace health solutions – our specialist Workplace Health Advisors can help you develop solutions and a workplace health plan that suits your organisation.

• Annual engagement plan to organise on-site activities and marketing communications

• Funding options including facilitating any level of subsidy of employee health premiums

Healthier cultures

Bupa corporate health insurance Bupa can partner with you to offer your employees great value corporate health cover.

As one of the largest providers of health cover in Australia, Bupa offers affordable options that give employees access to a wide range of features and benefits.

Our corporate plans are an excellent choice for big and small businesses looking for help to assist in promoting a healthier workplace.


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For more information on any of our services contact your Bupa work health advisor.

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1300 719 790

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