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Media Week | How media industry leaders should address burnout and stress ArticlesCamilla

Media Week | How media industry leaders should address burnout and stress

Mediaweek Original by Alisha Buaya “What we found is that people need a different mindset. Resilience is no longer enough”. Select Wellness delivers strategic services that empower, engage, and energise employees with tailored preventative and proactive interventions to support mental health and wellbeing. The company was founded by Camilla Thompson and Martine Beaumont seven years ago. Their time has provided leader wellbeing programs,…
Select Wellness
February 22, 2023
3 key steps & common barriers to successful leader-led wellbeing Select Wellness | elephantsArticles

3 key steps & common barriers to successful leader-led wellbeing

In the wild, senior elephants work together to create an environment which protects the least experienced, younger members – minimising harm and allowing them to flourish. In many ways, the task of senior leaders is similar to the adult elephants’ role. The old idea about workplace wellbeing is that it was antithetical to business success – a fluffy, feelgood gesture…
Martine Beaumont
February 13, 2020
When you’re so Overwhelmed, sometimes you just want to Quit. Select Wellness | OverwhelmedArticlesCamilla

When you’re so Overwhelmed, sometimes you just want to Quit.

Meet Jack, a creative genius and senior leader for one of Australia’s top media companies. He’s a valued employee, brand ambassador and all-round awesome guy. Jack is a father of two young kids; his oldest has behavioural issues and barely slept for the first five years of his life. Sleep deprivation can lead to many serious mental health issues and Jack and…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
Why it’s rest – not sleep – you could be deprived of Select Wellness | Articles - rest not sleepArticlesMartine

Why it’s rest – not sleep – you could be deprived of

When we ask our GLWS survey clients how they look after themselves, their responses tend to fall into three categories: sleep, exercise and nutrition. The least likely category to get a mention is rest, or ‘taking a break’. Our clients usually associate the word ‘rest’ with either sleep or some form of passive distraction such as a glass of wine,…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
Tales from the Frontline of Executive Wellbeing Select Wellness | FrontlineArticlesMartinewellness

Tales from the Frontline of Executive Wellbeing

Are you an Overfunctioner? Sarah had all the attributes of a high functioning and valued executive - diligent, perfectionistic, goal oriented, responsible, reliable, energetic, a great communicator and an incredibly supportive manager to her team. It was no surprise to me that Sarah was Group Director of a thriving financial services company and seen by the CEO as his logical…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
How much for your Wellbeing? Mental Health crisis in the Legal Industry Select Wellness | Mental Health in the workplaceArticlesMartine

How much for your Wellbeing? Mental Health crisis in the Legal Industry

The crisis in wellbeing in the legal industry has received increased attention in the media recently with SafeWork NSW and WorkSafe in Vic investigating allegations of unsafe work practices in two top tier legal firms. With 12-hour days and 6-day weeks viewed as standard, and some teams clocking up weeks of 15 hours days and on occasion sleeping at work,…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
How might we be with an extra day up our sleeve each week? Select Wellness | articles - eating wellArticles

How might we be with an extra day up our sleeve each week?

Remember the headlines last year about the company in NZ operating on a 4-day week with record productivity? It seems to have really got people talking. HR folks, bosses and line managers alike have had their imaginations captured – and conversations are bubbling away in cities and boardrooms across Australia. Could there be something sweet in the air, besides the…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
The facts and figures on wellbeing as a driver of thriving humans and business Articles

The facts and figures on wellbeing as a driver of thriving humans and business

Firstly, thanks to our amazing and engaged community of readers for all your responses to our last piece about the impact of mental ill-health and low wellbeing, and how if left unmanaged it may lead to a whole range of distress and loss of function for the humans in our workplace, and suboptimal consequences for business performance. It really got…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020
The three pillars of building economically and socially thriving organisations Select Wellness | workplace wellbeingArticles

The three pillars of building economically and socially thriving organisations

Our ‘building economically and socially thriving organisations’ infographic has been a runaway hit with those who saw it in our last edition of Wellbeing Insights. So for this article, I’ll split up the three columns of the graphic and focus on each individually. The columns, you may have realised, represent different aspects of this issue:     Column one –…
Select Wellness
February 13, 2020