This section is dedicated to providing information, tips and resources to assist managers, supervisors and staff to support themselves and others during these busy and unsettling times.
Looking After Your Staff
Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Recognising and responding to stress in others
- Ways Managers Can Support Employees
- Managing emotions in your team
- How to stop catastrophizing
- Supporting healthcare workers to minimise trauma – Greenberg 2020
- What to do when you see another leader struggling during the pandemic
- Preventing and responding to staff burnout and emotional distress – Video with Alex Poylak
Useful Tools
- Rapid Guidance Stress Diagram
- FACE COVID – Responding effectively to the COVID Crisis (Wall Chart)
- R U OK? Conversation Flow Chart (A4) or (A3)
- Leaders guide to supporting staff – SuperFriend
- 90 second story telling – why stories matter so much right now (Advisory Board)
- Going Home Checklist
Supporting Remote Workers
- Returning to the workplace – a resource for managers and team leaders (Caraniche – Nov 2020)
- Supporting teams to reconnect (Caraniche)
- Working from home guide for employers (Australian Governement Comcare)
- Seven tips for managing the employee experience of remote workers
- Maintaining connection and team cohesion with your remote workers
Frontline Worker Accommodation Support
Looking After Your Colleagues
- Looking after colleagues during the COVID-19 crisis – Video (5:38)
- Tips for having a conversation with someone in need
- Connect with a buddy – SuperFriend
- Supporting colleagues through loss and hard times – SuperFriend
Looking After Yourself & Others at Home
- Coronavirus Home Safety Plan – (DHHS)
- Tips for self-care and families – PHOENIX Australia
- Work Clothes – Stay Safe
- Stay Safe- COVID-19 Prevention Tips for you and your family
- Get your household ready for COVID-19
- How soap absolutely annihilates the coronavirus
- How to care for the elderly without putting them at risk of coronavirus
Kids & Young People
- Just for kids: A comic exploring the new coronavirus
- How to talk to your teenager about coronavirus – ReachOut
- From toddlers to teens: How to talk about the coronavirus – Beyond Blue
- How to cope with stress related to COVID-19 – For young people – Headspace
- teenAID Tips for Mental Health during COVID-19
Visit the Accessing Personal and Professional Support page for a detailed list of professional resources including crisis support and counselling services.