Health and wellness are universal goals that everyone should be striving for when looking to excel in their professional industry, career or personal life. Keeping a balanced lifestyle that includes your own needs as well as your goals and commitments in check is essential to success. Some businesses understand that helping their workers to stay balanced leads to better outcomes overall, and implement tools and services to help them stay balanced and focused, but many companies are still lagging behind in this sense.
Jacqui Grant, CEO and founder of Break Free Consultancy, has leveraged her decades of experience working in a variety of fields including Registered Nursing, Personal Training, Developmental and Recovery Coaching and various corporate leadership roles to create a consulting service that helps businesses breed success and improve outcomes across all levels. While Break Free Consultancy works primarily with larger companies, Break Free with Jacqui is focused on supporting sole traders and startups, enabling businesses of all sizes to have custom-tailored support for operating successfully and in alignment with Best Practice.
Jacqui has vast amounts of experience working within the disability sector, including leadership, management and support coordination roles for NDIS companies, and much of her current work with Break Free involves working with businesses in the disability sector. Jacqui has joined us today to share advice on what disability support companies can do to succeed in their fields.
Staff education sessions
Our knowledge base expands and our understanding is constantly changing as we learn more about illnesses, disabilities and how best to treat them. Even for administrative workers who aren’t on the frontlines administering support and care, we should all be up to date with the latest knowledge and advice so that workers can make informed decisions coming from a place of empathy and understanding. The greater knowledge-base your staff possesses, the more effective they can be at their jobs; whether it’s matching the correct workers with ideal clients, improving the capabilities of your support workers, or being able to navigate and respond effectively to complex situations.
Health and wellness seminars
The disability sector can be challenging and arduous, but the great work you do is not only appreciated, but essential for some people utilizing the services you provide. That’s why it’s just as essential that your workers have access to the tools necessary to keep their lifestyles healthy, so they can provide the exceptional service that your clients need. Wellness seminars can give workers the information and perspective shift they need to take the time to address their own needs, and it also demonstrates to your workers that the work they do is important and that you care about their own well-being while they do it.
Personal consultations and debriefs
Building off the last point, your mental health is just as important as your physical, and having dedicated time for your workers to debrief, destress and healthily review all the challenges they experienced during the week in a controlled, safe environment is key for ensuring they can continue to work effectively. It’s easy to let your own needs fall by the wayside when you’re doing important work that requires intense focus, but your health is just as important as the people you’re serving, and both will suffer if your own personal needs aren’t in check when you go to work.
The team at Break Free Consultancy looks forward to helping you, your company, staff and participants be at your best. To connect with Jacqui Grant and her team visit Break Free Consultancy and Break Free with Jacqui, or check out her Facebook and LinkedIn social media pages to learn more about how your business can become its best version.