Case Studies
Client:
Victorian based HVP Plantations is Australia’s largest softwood plantation management company.
Challenge:
- To implement a range of operational and strategic psychological services to assist employees and managers to perform at their best
- To provide team building and psychological assessment services to better understand individuals and the teams’ strengths and development needs
- To strengthen the ‘people first’ culture that encourages staff to appreciate the strengths of others in a supportive and team based culture
Benefits:
- Siddons & Associates provide a flexible and pragmatic service that deals with critical human resource sensitive issues at short notice
- Siddons & Associates display an enthusiasm and empathy to share HVP’s Plantations business vision and can provide innovative and practical solutions to complex staff issues
- Better management of critical incident stress to better manage, for example, post-traumatic-stress in relation to the Black Saturday fires and its aftermath
- Early identification of problems leading to more timely interventions resulting in fewer workcover claims
- Specific counselling and debriefing with regard to the bushfire season and early identification of critical incident stress
- The implementation of a state wide preventative stress management program, specifically related to the bush fires
- Improved job satisfaction and staff retention, thereby improving their productivity to the organisation
- From a human resources perspective, Siddons & Associates provide organisationally relevant information based on scientifically validated assessment tools to assess and develop competencies, which assists the organisation with succession planning and recruitment into the future
- Siddons & Associates psychological services are designed to enable employees to develop the personal skills to help themselves as well as their colleagues
- The ‘People First’ culture has now been strengthened and the feedback about Siddons & Associates’ Programs is consistently good
“Siddons & Associates have for many years been an invaluable business partner in the provision of operational and strategic psychological services. Jon, in particular, has consistently delivered a high quality service often at short notice and on quite complex issues.”
(John Dodson, General Manager Human Resources).
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For more information please contact either:
Jon Siddons jon@siddons.com.au, or
Dr. Merran Gowans merran@siddons.com.au
