NESA Webinar
COVID-19 WEBINAR SERIES - EMPLOYEES
FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2020
12.00pm AEST (11.30am SA & NT, and 10.00am WA)
Session 3 (30minutes) & session 4 (30 minutes)
COVID-19 WEBINAR SERIES
The world as we know it is changing. With the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting the world and now the Australian way of life, this threat has placed every employer and household into a confronting and uncertain situation.
From an employer’s perspective the main question is, will your current business model be sustainable and how do you prepare and implement actions imposed by the Australian Government whilst still achieving company performance goals and supporting staff in an empathetic and appropriate manner?
As your company commences transition from an office based model to working remotely, you will need to design and implement a strategy that will adequately support employees, diminish public panic, foster a proactive working environment and encourage a positive mental health and wellbeing outlook.
Whilst other platforms are streaming basic assistance on how to work from home and deal with “cabin” fever, NESA and our Industry Partner (Indigenous Consulting Group) has designed a new COVID-19 Webinar Series to assist employers and employees that guides you through a comprehensive series of questions and responses.
The 4 Webinar topics are:
Managers
- Session 1: Understanding your requirements as a leader to address COVID-19 within your organisation
- Session 2: Managing a team remotely in response to COVID-19
CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON SESSIONS 1 AND 2
All Staff
- Session 3: How to manage my role working from home
- Session 4: How to manage my own mental health & well being
This Webinar series will assist in managing fears within your team, along with a thorough information pack including a Working From Home (WFH) checklist and sample COVID-19 Organisational Policies.
It is our hope to support your company objectives and staff well-being during this time and minimise the risk whilst maintaining a positive and proactive workforce.
Target Group
ALL STAFF
Summary
Session 3 – How to manage my role working from home
Duration: 30 minutes
This webinar will take staff through strategies in how to manage their workload whilst recognising the change in working environment.
The webinar will cover the following key issues:
- Setting up your workplace at home
- Goal Setting
- Multi-tasking
- Time management
- Virtual communication
- Adjusting to disruption
- Techniques for managing your stress
- Responding to change
Session 4 – How to manage my own mental health well-being
Duration: 30 minutes
This webinar will focus on the reality that many staff are questioning their own job security and are worried about their immediate and extended family.
This webinar will explore a range of simple techniques in how staff can manage their own mental health wellbeing through understanding:
- What is mental health well-being?
- Why does mental health well-being matter?
- How to manage your stress through building resilience
- How to adapt to change and recognising your response to change
- How to manage and identify your personal triggers
- Critical thinking
- Situational awareness
- Emotional intelligence
At the completion of the workshop all participants will leave with tools and techniques in how to manage their own mental health well-being through this significant period of change and adjustment.
FACILITATORS
Session 3: How to manage my role working from home
Louise Olney
Session 4: How to manage my own mental health well-being
Sharon Mamo
Sharon Mamo is a qualified human services program designer and lecturer with many years of experience in Human Resources. For the last 9 years she has focused on researching and working with disengaged job seekers and their complex needs. Sharon combines clinical psychotherapy and professionalism with a natural and down to earth approach. Sharon is a qualified Drug and Alcohol Facilitator, Psychotherapist & Social Sciences Professional. She has worked as a Psychotherapist in Employment Services for 8 years. As an expert in encouraging mandated and resistant clients to change, she keynotes at National Conferences on topics of Behavioural Change, AOD, Mental Health and Neuropsychotherapy.
COST
NESA on line two part Coaching Program
Indigenous Cultural Awareness
Friday 24 April and Tuesday 28 April 2020
Starts 2pm AEAT (1:30pm SA & NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All industry staff
Summary
Extensive cultural knowledge is not necessary in order to become culturally aware. A capacity to recognise that cultural difference exist, and to be open to learning from these differences is the bases of cultural awareness.
This Coaching program is designed to expand thinking and understanding about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, its history and contemporary issues; and to facilitate understanding between staff and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
You will be provided with historical legislative and policy development information, as it pertains to Australian Indigenous peoples, to increase understanding of how history relates to current Indigenous Australian socio economic status and behaviours.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Over this two part series you will hear Jodi Sampson’s personal narrative and insight into people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background within the workplace, customer base and community.
Session one: Friday 24 April 2020 at 2pm AEST
- Information required to better support Indigenous clients and community
- Knowledge and understanding of the cultural and social history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the issues they face
Session two: Friday 28 April 2020 at 2pm AEST
- Knowledge, skills and tools required for effective communication and service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Expected outcomes
- Awareness and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural issues and how they relate to your business, your job seekers and your employer placement and retention.
- A practical understanding of how culture shapes our values, attitudes and behaviour.
- Tools for staff who mentor, manage and work with Indigenous job seekers.
- Insight into people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background within the workplace, customer base and community
Other
Each webinar session is expected to run for approximately 60 minutes including ample Q&A and discussion time.
A PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants.
Once the series has been completed, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion.
FACILITATOR
Jodi Sampson
Jodi is a proud Gomeroi Man from North-West NSW. Jodi was raised in “Two-Worlds” in Moree and has an entrepreneurial spirit that runs deep, provides leadership, Coaching & Mentoring and role models the cultural values of his family and ancestors.
Jodi’s career spans across all levels of Government, Non-Government, Peak Bodies and Community-Based Organisations. Jodi’s engagement has seen him hold specialised roles and conducted cutting-edge strategic activities to provide access and participation of First Nation People to programs & opportunities that seemed unreachable.
COST
NESA Webinar
Thriving in Change
Wednesday 29 April 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm in SA & NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All frontline staff. Share what you learn at this session with your clients.
Summary
Change is a necessity. Without change there would be no progress, but the constancy and speed of change today are demanding from us a level of resilience and flexibility greater than ever before.
The more we explore change, the more we realise that the solution lies in understanding how people deal with change and their strategies for building resilience. Front line staff are encouraged to share what they learn here with their clients.
In 'Thriving in Change' we learn:-
- How our brain equips us for survival and what this means when faced with change
- Why everyone’s response to change is different and how to recognise where we are on the change continuum
- What we can predict about how we respond to change and why it’s perfectly normal
- How to overturn our evolutionary reactions and start to see change from a different perspective
- Strategies for building resilience to deal with change to our advantage
FACILITATOR
Clare Edwards
Clare is a change-maker. She helps organisations to tap into the collective potential of their people so that they can master personal leadership, thrive in change and stay fully engaged. A passionate storyteller and inspiring speaker, Clare takes her audiences on an experiential journey, leaving them filled with new insights, keen to know more and motivated to change. Clare’s corporate background spans 2 decades of working in senior management roles with global IT companies, surviving the dot com ‘boom and bust’ of the early millennium and thriving in complex, fast-paced change environments. Clare makes the complex simple. She has studied neuroleadership extensively and brings theory and concepts to life helping people to uncover the full potential of their amazing brain and its ability to change - without the psychobabble.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour. PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants and a certificate on completion.
NESA Webinar: A free event
The benefits of NEIS
Monday 4 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm in SA & NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All staff
Summary
You are invited to join the Chair of the National NEIS Association (NNA), Phillip Kemp as he discusses the advantage New Business Assistance with NEIS has for jobactive providers, discuss how NEIS benefits jobseekers and how NEIS will assist in people when the Australian economy reopens for business.
The volume of numbers that are on caseloads is rapidly increasing, and jobactive providers won’t be able to find everyone a job. For those people that have the skills and experience, starting their own business may be a better outcome……
FACILITATOR
Phillip Kemp : Chair of the National NEIS Association (NNA)
Phillip Kemp, is also the CEO of Business Foundations, a long term NEIS provider in Western Australia based in the port city of Fremantle. Phil has been the Chair of the NNA for two years, and has worked with the Department of Employment regarding improvements to the New Business Assistance with NEIS program and the importance of self-employment to Australia’s employment system.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour.
NESA Webinar
A Unique 8-point strategy for Coaching Job Seekers to Succeed in Job Interviews
Friday 15 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm SA & NT and 12 noon WA)
Target Group
Frontline staff
Summary
People rarely receive any positive feedback in their career, what their strengths are and what makes them unique. It is no different for job seekers, but it is important that they have the self-confidence to succeed in their job interviews; if you are to achieve your KPIs in employment outcomes.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- A unique 8-point strategy of how you can coach your job seekers to be successful in their job interviews.
- You will learn how to build their self- confidence.
- You will learn how to provide sound feedback on their career.
- You will feel more empowered to coach your job seekers to success with these new strategies.
FACILITATOR
Leonie Lam
Leonie has been recognised for her outstanding facilitation skills, customer service excellence and her genuine interest in helping people and organisations. Leonie is a qualified Trainer, Speaker, HR Consultant and Career Coach. She has previously held Training and HR positions at Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, Veolia Water and Western Sydney University. She is also the Director of a training and coaching business.
As a Career Coach, she has helped more than 200 people secure employment in Australia. As a Trainer, she is passionate about delivering training to organisations to help individuals and organisations maximise their performance and achieve their strategic objectives. She consistently receives outstanding feedback in her training programs.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour. A PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants, and a certificate for participants.
NESA Webinar
How To Go From 0 To 100 In Motivation Every Day
Monday 18 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm SA & NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All staff
Summary
Wouldn’t you love to wake up feeling motivated? Not having to use willpower to force yourself out of negativity so you can focus on the day ahead? This webinar reveals the top techniques you can use to take your motivation levels from 0 to 100 so you can be more productive, efficient and achieve your goals.
WHAT's being covered
- The scientific method of happiness
- How stress and fear can be your friend
- The crystal-clear principle
- Visualisation and creativity for success
- Overcoming nerves
- How to beat anxiety
- Quick fix to a panic attack
- How thoughts are formulated and how to drive them for success
- Overcoming fear & rejection
- Preventing procrastination and indecisiveness
- Positively rewiring your brain through habits
- How failure fits into success
FACILITATOR
Raimond Volpe
Raimond is an established and experienced Sales Trainer. He has over 25 years sales experience in finance, recruitment and pharmaceutical industries. He was the #1 BDM at Toll People for two years in a row, winning the National Finance Industries, BDM of the Year Award. Prior to sales, he was the director of Five Finance, a mortgage broking and insurance company that won many awards including the Allianz & Tower Finance Broker Company of the Year Award in 2007.
Mindset plays a big part in Raimond’s sales training, as the right attitude is an integral part in a successful sales process.
Raimond is an International Best Selling Author in the Self Help industry, with his book “Success1010 For Living”. Shortly after it’s release, it became an international bestseller in x5 countries. Since then, it has been number #1 in Australia in the Self Help Category for many months in a row. Raimond believes that with a solid sales process, winning attitude and advanced selling skills, excellence can be achieved in any industry.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour. However if we do go over time and you must leave, then you will be sent a link to the recording.nnA PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrant, and a certificate to participants.
NESA Webinar
Using the Hidden Job Market for Success
Tuesday 19 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm SA,& NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All staff
Summary
In the current competitive job market, there are thousands of unlisted jobs that are out there and available for your clients. These are the jobs that make up the Hidden Job Market and won’t be found using traditional job searching methods.
This webinar will explore the best practices to accessing those hidden jobs using non-traditional job search methods. If you want your jobseekers to succeed, then this webinar is for you!
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- Identifying the hidden job market and making it work for your job seekers
- Identify gaps in job search opportunities with job seekers
- Best practices for finding work in the hidden job market
- The importance of networking and empowering our clients to do it
FACILITATOR
Rebecca Herbertson
Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Career Development and other qualifications in Training, Management and Human Resources. With over fifteen years’ experience working in Employment Services and nine years delivering industry training, Rebecca is able to relay her knowledge and experience using a common sense approach and an informal manner which is popular with her clients. Her Employment Services work has primarily involved facilitating the Certificate IV in Employment Services throughout Western Australia and assisting organisations with other business needs such as tender writing and policy development. Currently the Director of Training and Compliance at the Betterlink Group, a Western Australian based RTO, she is also the WA president of the Career Development Association of Australia, an internationally certified Continuous Improvement Coach, SME Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour. A PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants, and a certificate for participants
NESA Webinar
Energise and Engage your Remote Team
Wednesday 20 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm SA & NT, and 12noon in WA)
Target Group
All staff
Summary
With Covid-19 sweeping the World, it’s quickly changing how we work. Many businesses are now closing their doors and working remotely. For many staff this is the first time they need to work from home. This with the added social isolation, people will be faced with the struggles of feeling disconnected, disengaged and demotivated.
This webinar provides Managers and Team Leaders with practical tools, activities and routines to help keep staff feeling appreciated, connected and ‘part of the team’.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- Challenges and Distractions when working remotely
- Essential elements of staff engagement
- 4 simple Principles to help boost engagement
- How to incorporate these Principles into your Leadership
- Practical activities to help Energize and Engage your remote team
FACILITATOR
Mike Symonds
With over 15 years experience in ‘Building Stronger Teams, Boosting Staff Engagement and Creating Positive Workplace Cultures’, Mike has worked with some of Australia’s leading businesses. His highly interactive and practical approach is guaranteed to leave you INSPIRED, ENERGIZED and MOTIVATED to implement key learnings straight away!
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time and is expected to last no more than an hour (if we do go over time and you must leave, then you will be sent a link to the recording). Registrants will receive a PDF copy of the presentation and a certificate on completion.
NESA Event - free of charge webinar
How To Be Virtually Excellent. A Live, Interactive Demo
Thursday 21 May 2020
8am AEST
Target Group
All staff
Summary
The world has changed very quickly! It is now paramount that employment professionals coach, train, and meet… virtually. The session will offer one good example, valuable approaches and practical tips, how we are being virtually excellent and how we can help your team master these new skills.
If you registration and find that you can’t attend, then the recording will be emailed to you.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- Take time to think about how you + your staff + clients can thrive in a virtual world
- Participate in an excellent, interactive virtual gathering
- Get tips you can use IMMEDIATELY to be more virtually excellent
- See how we are being virtually excellent and how we can help you do it too
- Connect with some cool people during social isolation
FACILITATOR
Elisabeth Sanders-Park
Elisabeth Sanders-Park is a career industry author, trainer, speaker and thought-leader. Co-author of the ground-breaking book ” No One Is Unemployable” and “The 6 Reasons
You’ll Get the Job,” she creates innovative, lasting solutions for businesses, organizations, and job seekers. Over the last 15+years, she has trained more than 30,000 practitioners across the globe.
COST
OTHER
This live broadcast will include ample Q&A time. It is expected to run for no more than an hour. A PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants. If you registration and find that you can’t attend, then the recording will be emailed to you
NESA Webinar
Substance Affected - What You Should Be Aware Of
Friday 22 May 2020
2pm AEST (1:30pm SA & NT and 12 noon in WA)
Target Group
All staff
Summary
Listen and interact with Sharon Mamo as she comprehensively discuss and answer your questions on substance abuse. Sharon will discuss the range of and the effects of using current day illicit drugs and alcohol. Sharon will offer pragmatic tips and advice on how to work with affected clients.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- Case Study and the Solution
- The effect on the brain
- Comparison of drugs
- Types of drugs
- The signs
- Addiction, what is it?
- The effects on health
- Your values and attitudes
FACILITATOR
Sharon Mamo
Sharon is a qualified human services program designer and lecturer with many years of experience in Human Resources. For the last 5 years she has focused on researching and working with disengaged job seekers and their complex needs. Sharon combines clinical psychotherapy and professionalism with a natural and down-to-earth approach. Sharon is a qualified Drug and Alcohol Facilitator, Psychotherapist & Social Sciences Professional. She has worked as a psychotherapist in employment services for over 8 years. As an expert in encouraging mandated and resistant clients to change, she keynotes at national conferences on topics of behavioural change, AOD, mental health and neuropsychotherapy.
Psychotherapist and Social Sciences & Trauma Professional, Counselling & AOD Specialist.
