Well Workplaces

As a parent, one of the biggest stressors we have is finding the balance in being present at work, while consistently spending cherished time with the kids.  Finding that sweet spot for managing career throughout working parenthood, but also about mastering the guilt and overwhelm that comes with the territory.  We feel like it is always at the forefront of most conversations we have with working parents.  At Well Workplaces we are starting a new #podcast mini-series on parenthood.  Tom is very excited to be discussing mastering overwhelm & guilt and keeping your career on track throughout working parenthood with Poppy Griffiths. ~ The VIA Character Strengths Survey here:  https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/Register ~ Poppy Griffiths is a professional coach and speaker on high performance. She is the Director and Founder of UnlimitU a high performance consultancy that passionately supports the career-life success of working parents, the personal and leadership development of women, and the positive mental wellbeing of people. Poppy combines 15 years of senior corporate experience working for global businesses including Swisse Wellness & Qantas Group ~ About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

It’s a great feeling when you’re on a roll at work. You feel inspired and ready to tackle whatever’s on your to-do list for the day. You can ignore distractions and stay in the zone. It feels like quality work is just flowing straight from your brain to your fingertips.  You know that feeling when you know you’re doing a good job, yet it feels almost effortless and thoughts move into action seamlessly? How to we maintain this way of working?  Connect with Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D of Connect Psych Services About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

Has the imposter monster caught up with you over the last few months?   You know the feeling.    The understating of your hard work and effort to succeed in what you do.    The feeling like you don't belong in the room. Interestingly, the Advancing the Future of Women in Business: The 2020 KPMG Women's Leadership Summit Report showed that a whopping 75% of women executives have experienced imposter syndrome in their careers.  To tackle this topic Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D and Tom Bosna will be breaking down the topic of imposter syndrome.   They tackle why women feel imposter syndrome more than men and discuss personal experiences with this, as well as addressing key strategies to overcome this feeling.   We can break this bias in our workplaces. ~ Connect with Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D of Connect Psych Services About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

Sit less. Move more. Over the years, it has become obvious that majority of workers seen in clinics suffer from chronic factors due to reduced movement, improper stress management, and limited exposure to natural environments. This leads to pain, immunosuppression, and reduced happiness. With the mix of hybrid working continuing globally, we're super excited to connect with Dr Stefan Zavalin from Tennessee, USA. Dr Zavalin is the most passionate person we've ever met on the topic of how to simply sit less and move more. In this episode of the Well Workplaces podcast, Tom chats with Dr Stefan Zavalin, International TEDx speaker and CEO of Love to move.  Dr Zavalin is a passionate speaker and shares the following on the podcast: His journey of completing a Doctorate in Physical Therapy while becoming legally blind. He shares some of the common presentations he would see while working in private practice as a physical therapist in the US We discuss how our work culture and environment affects our physiology and why exercise does not fix all of it. This is a really excellent discussion and everyone needs to know this! He shares why cultural changes around movement at work are more important than changing the physical environment or buying away the problem. Dr Stefan shares some wonderful tips and actionable steps to alternating the amount of sitting time at work To view Dr Stefan Zavalin's TEDx check it out here, It is a must watch video! To check out the live discussion of this podcast check us out on youtube ~ About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

Did you know you can save 10% of your employees lives with this one corporate health check - a skin cancer check?  And for 71% of employees that have participated in our workplace skin cancer checks to date, it is their *first* ever check completed. In this episode of the Well Workplaces podcast, Tom chats with Jane Homberger, the CEO of Skin Smart Australia.  We hear about Jane's background and how she got into establishing Skin Smart Australia. We speak with Jane about: Why is the workplace a good place to start with skin checks? What sort of things to you normally find in workplace settings? During Covid, most people have dropped the ball on health screenings such as skin checks - what insights here or predictions in what we might see with skin cancer detection in the future If people want to look after their skin - what is some simple tips? The importance of early awareness. Well done to those workplaces that are proactively promoting skin cancer awareness, and genuinely saving employees lives. ~ About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

With organisations facing the challenge of talent attraction and the great resignation/realignment well underway. Now is the perfect time for businesses to reassess their workspaces. We're very pleased to introduce Angela Ferguson the Co-founder & Managing Director of Future X Collective, a workplace consultancy. Future X Collective researched over 9000 Australian workers to assess what role the ‘office’ will play in the future of work and this research won a 2021 Good Design Award. We know that the workplace is much more than a physical space, it has to be productive, sustainable, innovative, and unique to an organisation’s culture. Angela has over 20 years’ experience working with Google, PwC, REA Group, Johnson and Johnson, MYOB and is currently undertaking her PhD in Architecture and Urban Design. We speak with Angela to learn a bit more about what the research findings are telling us about the future of work, how workplaces can actually design for productivity and performance and talk best practice industry examples from her consulting experience. ~ About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

2020 demonstrated the importance of resilience and how it impacts our day-to-day lives. Well Workplaces is excited to partner with icare NSW to bring you a live workplace health and safety panel discussion.⁠ ⁠ Three Paralympians will join Tom Bosna and share their stories of how they have overcome adversity to achieve their personal and professional goals.⁠ ⁠ Joany Badenhorst, Grant Mizens OAM and John Marshall detail their life-changing workplace accident, journey of recovery and return to work, and their road to becoming a Paralympian. They open up about the challenges of living with disability and re-entering the workforce and also discuss how organisations can best support those returning to work after an injury and ways to create an inclusive culture.⁠ ⁠ With a passionate panel of speakers, this event will empower you and your teams to build resiliency. Our panellists demonstrate that with the support of others, an injury can be a new beginning; a person can recover and go on to contribute to a workplace and the community or, like in their own life stories, become a top-performing athlete.⁠ ⁠ All three panellists are part of icare NSW's Paralympian Speakers Program, which provides icare customers with access to Paralympians who have been affected by workplace injury to talk to their team free of charge.⁠ ~~ About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities. Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or join the community for exclusive events here.

As a self confessed sloth, Tom certainly does love a good nap and needs his beauty sleep.  It sure is interesting to note that two out of five Australians struggle with sleep on regular basis. That includes getting to sleep and staying asleep. That's a whopping 10.3 million Australians not napping for the recommended 7 to 9 hours.  We know that sleeping, rest and restoration are vital to our overall well-being and Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D and Tom talk about how to get to sleep, stay asleep and the key reasons why some people are struggling with this issue. Thanks for listening to the the final Well Workplaces episode of Season 3. ~ Connect with Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D of Connect Psych Services About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

The simple things in life are the best.      Many of us have come to realise this after the challenging year that was 2021, which rolled into the start of 2022.  With that in mind, and as we look to the future, it is so important to hold onto some of that perspective that we have gained through these times.      Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D  and Tom are excited to bring you another Well Workplaces podcast on the topic of: How to create your list to improve happiness.  It is important to reflect, maintain perspective and make a plan for keeping the simple things in life. ~  Connect with Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D of Connect Psych Services About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.

Sometimes you just have to see the good in everything.    They say everything happens for a reason.   They say you’ll get over it.   And finally good vibes only.    What do all of these statements have in common?   They are actually quite toxic.  In a world that froths on the pursuit of happiness, it seems quite obvious how the simplification of our feelings can leave people feeling a bit well ‘blah’.   You only need to look up hashtag #goodvibesonly on Instagram and you will be hit with a massive 15.3 million posts of perfectly angled pictures that highlight perfection and happiness.   What about the other vibes that exist in the human experience?   Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D and Tom Bosna are excited to be tackling the topic of toxic positivity in this episode.  We dissect the topic of toxic positivity, discuss practical examples of how this plays out in relationships and workplaces   We will also tackle some strategies on how to deal with toxic positivity in the workplace and discuss how leaders can approach this to support their team members.   We promise to bring the #goodvibesonly and Tom to never use the word vibes in real life interactions in future.   ~ Connect with Dr. Natalie Flatt Ph.D of Connect Psych Services About Well Workplaces Well Workplaces is a movement by Pinnacle Health Group and our vision is for a world where workplaces lead and create healthier communities.  Well Workplaces podcast has been designed to create genuine wellbeing conversations in the workplace and share expert knowledge in practical ways. Is your workplace fit for the hybrid workplace? Take the Thriving Workplace test today. Connect with Well Workplaces on Linkedin or Join the community for exclusive events here.