Is your workplace culture damaging your business?Reducing productivity?Increasing psychosocial risk?

We help workplaces increase productivity and retain engaged and psychologically safe teams. We do this by talking and listening to your people, your most valuable asset and most reliable source of information.

If your workplace is witnessing:

low engagement
reduced productivity
high employee turnover
poor behaviour and communication
toxic work environment
ineffectual leadership
increased absenteeism /presenteeism

we can help.

Reach out to jane@jecassociates.com.au before you invest in addressing the issues that are hurting your culture and damaging your business.

We offer a no obligation confidential discussion on how you can get the strategic advice you need to address concerns related to culture, performance and psychosocial hazards.

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What drives me

My name is Jane Eldridge

I have an unshakeable belief in 2 things. The first is that workplace culture is a major contributor to our wellbeing. The second is that a healthy workplace culture drives high performance. So, employers and employees want the same thing. A healthy performance culture is absolutely possible if we can turn our attention to listening to our team. This is where the truth is, hence the most reliable source of information upon which to base strategy

Psychosocial Hazards

Safe Work Australia defines a psychological hazard in the workplace as anything that could cause psychological harm (eg harm someone’s mental health).

But psychosocial hazards can be difficult to identify and isolate and this can make it challenging for an employer to eliminate the risk or if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise them so far as is reasonably practicable.

Often, what an employer needs most importantly is a conversation with an expert to support them through the process of identifying and assessing possible psychosocial hazards. This provides the employer with an understanding of how to manage any psychosocial hazards that may (or may not) exist in the workplace.

This is where JEC & Associates can help

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Our Services

Professional Expertise Team

Workplace culture appraisal
Psychosocial hazard identification
Workplace investigations (bullying, harassment, discrimination)
Leadership mentoring and coaching
Culture audits and engagement strategies
Mentoring programs

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Workplace culture appraisal

Executive consultation

The most important step in the process, this is the opportunity for senior executives and /or CPO to discuss their observations and express the nature and extent of their concerns in relation to culture performance and psychosocial hazards. This is an open and honest but confidential discussion, where the client is encouraged to describe their workplace issue in rudimentary terms. While the session is a critical part of the scoping process it can also be an opportunity for senior staff to divest themselves of what is often a very confusing or distressing situation, secure in the knowledge that they will be supported.

Employee interview -qualitative

One-on-one interview with all (or selected) employees. Advantages include:

perception ie investment in employees
increased confidentiality
decreased bias
increased trust ie independent interviewer
goes beyond 'one point in time'
more palatable ie no employee survey fatigue
increased participation
more accurate and quality responses- greater depth
reduced amount of irrelevant information.

If preferred, the client is also offered the opportunity to support the qualitative appraisal with a staff survey .

Strategic advice

The interviews provide a qualitative data set that indicates the tone of the workplace culture (eg engaged vs disengaged). The data set is analysed and synthesized to reveal dominant trends and the areas from which they emanate. This enables the development of a comprehensive report on the findings. The report will include recommendations and strategic advice that responds directly to the concerns raised in the Executive Consultation.

Our Team

Jane Eldridge

Founder and CEO

JEC & Associates was founded on my conviction that psychologically safe workplaces are not only aspirational, but also achievable and in the best interests of the employer, the employee and the community at large.

My experience has shaped my thinking and beliefs about workplace culture and I have gained valuable insights into the elements that make or break culture. In a healthy culture, psychological safety is palpable. In an unhealthy culture, psychosocial hazards are palpable.

JEC & Associates prioritises workplace culture and has been established to support workplaces to identify, assess and mitigate psychosocial hazards and retain engaged and psychologically safe employees.

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