Articles tagged under ‘Motivation’

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• The power of tiny habits — how small, consistent actions can support injured or ill workers on their RTW journey

  By harnessing the science of tiny habits, injured or ill workers can make their RTW journey more manageable, sustainable and successful.

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• RTW: from policy to practice. Is your organisation ready for change?

  Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve how we care for workers is not easy. Are there things we can do in our organisations to create the conditions that support ‘organisational readiness for change?

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• RTW: from policy to practice. How to make change happen

  The 'It Pays to Care' report calls for change in our work injury schemes, but recognises that change is hard, even when we know what we need to do. One model that looks at ‘organisational readiness for change’ may help us.

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• Motivate workers by meeting their needs

  Injured workers will continue to struggle with motivation unless the system takes charge of training case managers, doctors and employers in empathy and emotional intelligence.

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• An evidence-informed approach to motivating change

  Motivating injured workers to make positive change may become easier if you match your approach to their current ‘stage of change’: denial, considering change, preparing to take action, actively changing, maintaining wins or enjoying success.

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• Let go of toxic workplace 'emotional labour' in 2019

  Deep acting at work could be a protective factor for employees in challenging situations, but it can also take a toll and lead to burnout.

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• Webinar recording: Expectations Management in Vocational Rehabilitation

  This webinar is designed to educate individuals working in the injury management space on a variety of expectations and constraints that can affect return to work.

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• Supercharging motivation for the chronically ill

  Motivating messages for RTW coordinators, supervisors and HR, based on research that describes what people with chronic diseases value about work.

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• Webinar recording: Life Insurance - What to do when you don't have a big stick - Make carrot soup.

  Meredith Taylor, Trina Moyes and Josh Agar from MLC Life Insurance discuss innovative ways to motivate and engage claimants.

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• Webinar recording: Cultivating happiness at work to improve RTW

  The Happiness at Work Program, a 30-day program devised to improve personal happiness and positively impact workplace productivity.

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• Workplace Nonchalance: who cares?

  Nonchalant employees are not unhappy. They're not disgruntled. They’re people who show up day after day and go through the motions.

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• Webinar Recording: Engaging others early - The art of influence in return to work

  Building influence without authority and how it can support personal injury management professionals.

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• The power of learned optimism

  How 'learned optimism' can improve return to work outcomes: Breaking down Theo Feldbrugge's webinar presentation.

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• Video webinar: Improving Return to Work Motivation with Optimism

  Theo Feldbrugge discusses the impact of optimism / pessimism on return to work.

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• Emotional resilience: 2

  This second of a two-part series investigates identifying pessimistic thinking in employees, and improving optimism and emotional resilience in the workplace.

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• Emotional resilience: 1

  This first of a two-part series investigates the negative health and work effects of pessimism, and how fostering emotional resilience improves wellness and business outcomes.

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• Stress and emotional resilience

  Ever wondered what RTW and sabre-toothed tigers have in common? Or why some people bounce back quicker than others from stressful situations?

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• Family, colleagues great support after bad car crash

  After being badly injured in a car crash, family and colleagues rallied around to help Peter back to work.

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• What's work got to do...got to do with it?

  Returning to work is even harder if the work itself feels meaningless. What makes a job meaningful?

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• Motivation - the juice, just gimme the juice.

  The what, where and why of motivation, distilled to dot points.

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• Tired of workplace health wannabes?

  Every workplace has health champions and health underdogs. Motivating the latter can be a real challenge...

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• The power of storytelling

  The impact of 'patient narrative' - first-hand stories of illness and injury - shouldn't be underestimated. (Includes video footage.)

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• Saying 'I do' to employee engagement: part 2

  We look at the practical measures organisations can take to encourage employees to work with them, not for them

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• Maintain the flame: Part 3 - Employers and job burnout

  What can employers do to help prevent and respond to burnout?

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• Maintain the flame: Part 2 - Employees and job burnout

  We look at how RTW Coordinators can help prevent, manage, and assist recovery from burnout

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• Maintain the flame: Job burnout part 1

  In part 1 of a 3-part series, we look at the symptoms, causes and effects of job burnout

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• Supervisors apathetic about RTW?

  Six apathy-busting tips for when supervisors just don't seem to care about managing RTW.

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• Attitudes can be the biggest disabilities

  When it comes to returning people back to work, it's not just important to discuss the RTW process or procedures.

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• Motivational interviewing and RTW Webinar

  Motivated employees have better return to work outcomes.

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• Surviving Recovery

  Elizabeth draws on personal experience in this Users Guide To Maintaining a Positive Attitude on the Road to Recovery.

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• Retaining a top team

  How prepared are you for the fight to retain your best talent? Staff retention systems that position your company as a great place to work should be part of your arsenal.

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• Life in the slow lane

  The pace of return to activity after an accident or injury is dictated by more than just physical limitations. Here are seven secrets to help you get back up to speed, shared by someone who recovered from a broken neck after a high-speed car crash.

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• Teaching WorkCover claimants to sell themselves

  In pain, low in confidence, and down at heart: it can be a hard slog to get back into the workforce. Here's the juice on helping people find a job.

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• Sunny side up

  What is optimism? How is it good for health? When is it wise, in professional life, to get your grin on?

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• Determined to RTW

  A truck driver with a recurring knee injury doesn't let setbacks keep him out of the cabin in this SA case study

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• Signs of employee disengagement

  Advice on how to bite the signs of disengagement - before they bite you

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• Come on get happy!

  Want a better workplace? Get happier. Here are some pointers on how.

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• 6 simple apathy busters

  Supervisors apathetic about RTW? You gotta bust that apathy ASAP!

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• What are the ingredients for success in RTW?

  Getting the right mix is never easy but hearing how other people have succeeded in return to work helps. A WorkSafe officer offers her advice.

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• Employees tough to budge on workplace health?

  Dr Steve Beller says 'Joy of living' is a much more powerful motivator than 'fear of illness and death'.

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• The writing is in the book

  When a heroin and alcohol addiction lead you to the darkest places you've ever been, what can bring you back to the light?

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• Motivation - Part Seven (b)

  The final article in the motivation series looks at the strategies and techniques of motivational interviewing.

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• Motivation - Part Seven (a)

  The penultimate article in the 'Motivation Series' looks at Motivational Interviewing and the positive effects it produces in the Return To Work process.

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• Motivation - Part Six

  Are you motivated to succeed or to avoid failure?

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• Motivation - Part Five

  A look at self-efficacy and how it can be maximised in patients.

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• Motivation - Part Four

  Improving motivation is up to the employee and employer.

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• Motivation: Part Three

  Trying to define motivation can be tricky, but let's give it a go.

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• Motivation: Part Two

  The six-part series continues. This time we look at the effect of a positive attitude towards rehab.

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• Motivation: Part one

  The first instalment in a six-part series of articles on Motivation in rehabilitation.

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• From fighting cancer to fostering Cancer Voices

  Cancer survivor John Stubbs talks about his journey back to good health and back to work, in a hugely important role.

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• A successful RTW case study under seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

  Mr X had been a 'journeyman' worker for many years before he developed a destructive and debilitating anxiety.

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• When return to work works best

  RTW Matters interviewed 57-year-old 'Sally', who went straight back to work after sustaining a shoulder injury. We learn what helped - and what didn't.

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• Loss of motivation is common when people remain on part-time modified duties

  A project manager develops an overuse injury and is still on part-time restricted duties after many months.

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• When adequate rehabilitation is not enough

  A long-term stable worker sustains a significant hip injury. While he has returned to work on restricted duties, a long term view is needed.

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• Getting happier, working better

  Studies have now proven that positive psychology has a big impact. In the workplace it can keep employees happier and more motivated to return to work after an illness or injury.

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• Job opportunity: Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research

  Care to take a step up into research in the role of self-management on vocational rehabilitation outcomes?

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• A case study in motivated RTW

  A case study in motivated RTW from an injured labourer with special incentives for getting back to normal life.

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• Looking for inspiration?

  Comcare's new CEO Paul O'Connor has a vision: "inclusion" and "integration" for workers' comp and return to work.

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• Prime RTW

  If an 80 year old butcher with a twice-torn rotator cuff sounds like a tough RTW gig, meet Keith Schwarze from Queensland, whose love for his job made him determined to work again.

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• Nursing a healthy return to work journey

  Take 10 factors for RTW success and 10 for failure. Click on the ones you want to achieve - or remedy - and uncover the clues!

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• Building Employee Engagement and the Impact on Health: David Brown

  In order to be truly engaged and contributing fully at work, there needs to be a work-life balance

Research 1 - 5 of 5

• Is motivational interviewing effective in workers’ comp schemes?

  Motivational interviewing is used in case management in many Australian personal injury compensation systems. But a study suggests it may not be such an effective intervention in workers’ compensation schemes.

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• How do workers decide when to return?

  Top ten considerations that underlie decisions about the timing of RTW.

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• Why would a seriously injured firefighter choose to return to high risk work?

  Bonds with co-workers and love of a particular job makes return to work appealing even after serious injury.

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• A tool to measure motivation

  The Model of Creative Ability may be a useful tool in return-to-work programs to assess and measure motivation.

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• Does zest for work influence return to work?

  Job satisfaction and engagement both influence work attendance.