Select Wellness, Author at Select Wellness

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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 WellnessFebruary 13, 2020

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Podcast: co-founder Audrey speaks about leader wellbeing and the GLWS

I was recently a guest on Murray Wright’s Leadership Moments podcast. I spoke in detail about my career, partnership with Karen Gillespie and the creation of GLWS, and discussed how leader wellbeing and performance go hand in hand. Listen to the audio here –

Select WellnessFebruary 13, 2020

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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 WellnessFebruary 13, 2020

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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 WellnessFebruary 13, 2020

Podcast

The Why and How of Leader-Led Wellbeing

The Why and How of Leader-Led Wellbeing A Better Me | Podcast Hear Martine Beaumont, CEO Select Wellness, Audrey McGibbon, Co-Founder of Eek & Sense and Co-Author of the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey and Adam Brett, Head of Strategy for Medibank share their views, research and stories about all things to do with leader led wellbeing. What does it look…

Select WellnessDecember 28, 2019

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Best Productivity Secrets

We spend much of our lives at the office working diligently, slacking off, and talking about our weekend around the watercooler. Despite spending so much of our lives at work, there’s plenty about office life we don’t understand or would be surprised to learn.

Select WellnessFebruary 24, 2016

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The Impact of Sleep on Leadership

In our hyper-connected, 24/7 world, many of us are losing sleep — literally. Our own survey of more than 180 business leaders found that four out of 10 (43%) say they do not get enough sleep at least four nights a week...

Select WellnessDecember 28, 2019

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The Business Rationale for Wellness

Working Towards Wellness: The Business Rationale a Report compiled in conjunction with Price Waterhouse Coopers Chronic disease is responsible for more than half of all deaths in the world and is projected to account for two-thirds of all deaths globally in the next 25 years. This progression of chronic disease is occurring despite the fact that these diseases are largely…

Select WellnessDecember 28, 2019

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The Case for Mindfullness at Work

A research article on Harvard Business Review | Image by jennifer maravillas for hbr The Busier You Are, the More You Need Mindfulness by Shawn Achor & Michelle Gielan The most forward-looking companies are willing to take risks to achieve greatness. Most leaders give lip service to this idea, but few actually do it. We have worked with banks willing…

Select WellnessDecember 28, 2019

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CEO’s Holistic Therapy – Stress

Stress management is crucial in order for today’s CEOs and leaders to continue to thrive. Holistic therapies might be the answer.

Select WellnessDecember 11, 2019