​Every business has a first aid kit in the cupboard for those unexpected physical injuries. But how many businesses are prepared to administer Mental Health First Aid?

The economic cost of workplace stress in Australia is over AU$14 billion and spiraling upwards, with a huge loss of productivity. [1]

All of us experience mental health challenges at various times in our lives – it is part of the human condition – and these days it can seem like it’s an epidemic.

How do business leaders, owners, managers and team leaders distinguish the difference between an under-performing employee and those who are suffering a mental health problem?

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Vision and purpose are essential components of our life symphony. An orchestra of answers to multiple questions that work together to create harmony, and something intensely meaningful to you. It’s your answers to these questions that create clarity and coherence, enabling the right way forward to present itself.

Another word for collaboration is relationship. We all have them with varying degrees of success. Whether it’s an intimate relationship, business relationship, family or friendships. In a perfect world friendship laced with mutual respect is a common thread through all of these connections.