Employee Development and Support
Employee Assistance Program
Your employees are your greatest resource. You care for them, and you want them to be well so they can lead fulfilling lives and perform at their best.
Everyone goes through periods when difficulties in their personal life affect their well-being and this might impact on their work performance.
We can help. We offer brief solution focused counselling, incorporating a wide range of evidence based therapeutic approaches, including horse assisted and nature based programs.
In case medium to long term therapeutic work would be helpful, referral to our therapeutic and sensory interventions, or if needed to other providers, will be taken care of seamlessly with complete confidentiality guaranteed.
Return to Work Services
We are registered with WorkCover for psychological therapy services focused on assisting injured employees to return to the workforce.
Whilst during sessions our focus is on the well-being of the employee, the employer’s needs are considered at all times.
The ultimate goal is for the employee to be well and able to participate fully in employment, whether at their original place of work or elsewhere if needed.
This ensures that the employer will be able to provide the best possible service with the help of a fully functioning workforce.
Conflict resolution coaching
Two or more of your employees need targeted assistance to address their difficulties in working together.
Their difficulties with each other might or might not have started to affect their work performance, but you want to minimise the risk of this.
You also want to make sure that the difficulties between two staff members do not to spread across the rest of their team.
We can help. We offer conflict resolution coaching to assist your staff to listen to and communicate with each other in respectful effective ways focused on prioritising their work performance, accepting each other’s differences, and supporting each other.
Performance management coaching
You rightly prefer to focus on the 95% of your staff group who are performing well. Let us provide targeted interventions to the other 5% who struggle to keep up and might or might not have the capacity to improve.
We’ll be very clear about the expectations and timelines the employee will need to meet.
We will be kind and supportive to maximise opportunities for the employee to meet your expectations and timelines.
We will get on with the tough conversations, so that you can get on with what you excel at: running your business and developing your services.
Team building
Whilst individual staff performance is important, your organisation will reach it’s peak if your employees work well together as a team. Let us help you build your team with our innovative approaches.
Horses’ survival relies on herd dynamics, that involve each horse actively taking up its individual role. Our horse assisted team building program teaches employees to understand and rely on each other, to support each other, and to strengthen each other’s performances.
Team well-being program
In addition to team building, we offer innovative team based care and well-being programs. Our programs are nature based and can involve horse assisted approaches (see team building). Let us take your team out of the office to immerse themselves in nature on a guided forest therapy walk.
Research shows that spending at least three hours in a forest in a relaxed way has positive impacts on our physical health, improves our mental health, and helps people feel more connected to others and nature.
Our Team Well-being Program aims to:
Connect your staff to each other and the surrounding environment
Help build better teams, with improved communication and collaboration
Improve productivity in the workplace: happier and healthier employees perform better at work
Help your staff understand and build their own emotional well-being and resilience
Help reduce stress