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Egoli Chapter Member Survey 2021
The EAPA-SA Egoli Chapter invites the Egoli Chapter’s members and stakeholders to support us in completing our Member Survey for 2021. The objective of this Member Survey is to obtain input from our members on the strategies and focal areas for 2021’s Operational...
Service Provider Guide Update: Feedback Required
Dear Valued EAP Stakeholder On behalf of EAPA-SA, I hereby wish to take this opportunity to thank you for the time you took and for joining us in the Service Provider Membership virtual consultation session held on Zoom on held last Tuesday. As custodians of the EAP...
Farewell: Cheryl Pillay
An EWP champion has earned her angel wings. It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the passing of Cheryl Pillay, a long standing member of the Nelson Mandela Bay Chapter of EAPA-SA. Despite her health challenges, she was always ready and willing to lend...
EAPA-SA expresses concern over Department of Arts and Culture tender
The Employee Assistance Professionals Association of South Africa (EAPA-SA), a thought leader and the industry experts in the field of EAP and Wellness, expresses concern over the alleged awarding of a tender to render wellness services at the Department of Arts and...
Termination of Complimentary membership for Conference/Eduweek Attendance
Dear Valued EAPA-SA Member On behalf of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association of South Africa (EAPA-SA) Board, I would like to sincerely thank you for your continued support of the association. As a result of the turbulent financial climate our country and...
We invite you to become a content contributor
The detrimental effects of the coronavirus pandemic has placed EAP, as an industry, at the forefront of employee health and wellness like never before, including in the support of care workers and other essential workers on the frontline in the fight to overcome...
EAPA-SA Workplace Guideline COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-19 Virus
OVERVIEW OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC A contagious disease known as Coronavirus or COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-19 Virus, was first detected in China in December 2019 and has since spread worldwide. On 30 January 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared...
STATEMENT FROM EAPA-SA ABOUT COVID-19
Date: 17 March 2020 SUBJECT: STATEMENT FROM EAPA-SA ABOUT COVID-19 Dear Delegates, Members and Stakeholders, In light of President Ramaphosa’s address on Sunday 15th of March 2020 regarding the Covid-19 outbreak and the state of disaster restrictions that the...
We invite you to become a content contributor
Call for content: The Board would like to showcase members and add to the Association’s valuable body of knowledge by inviting EAPA-SA members to become newsletter content contributors.
We invite you to become a content contributor
In order to continue providing our members with the highest quality, most topical content possible, EAPA-SA is seeking reputable contributions to EAPA-SA newsletter article content, covering leading practices and emerging issues from within the EAP industry. We ask...
EVENTS
Substance Abuse in the Context of COVID-19 in South Africa
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Is Remote Work Here to Stay?
EAPA-SA’s EduWeb seminar on 4 December was titled, Is remote work here to stay? It's a question that is on a lot of people’s minds at the moment - some of us are looking forward to getting out from the constraints of our home office while others are only too happy to...
Embracing Change in the New Normal
With ‘change’ being at the centre of the new normal. No ‘post-pandemic’ EAP webinar education series would be complete without examining what it takes to embrace change - particularly as EAP practitioners and service providers are having to embrace change as well as...
Webinar 30 October – Equalising the Playing Field
In her insightful presentation and a particularly interesting Q&A session afterwards, Ms Sixolile Ngcobo, Provincial Manager for the Commission for Gender Equality and a Senior Advisor on the issues of Gender Justice and Sustainable Development, highlighted some...
Egoli Chapter Event on the 26th November
Egoli Chapter for our 3rd chapter event Date: 26th November 2020 Time: 10:00 - 12:00pm 'Financial Wellness in uncertain times: Financial literacy is the key to reaching financial freedom. This session will help you to make good decisions in managing...
Transnet COVID-19 Strategic Response Framework
Participants of the EduWeb webinar held on Friday 23rd October, were very privileged to hear from Dr Marion Borcherds, Transnet’s Group Employee Wellness and Transformation Manager, who has been uniquely positioned within a large State Owned Enterprise (SOE), taking...
The Uptick and Implications of Bullying and Cyberbullying in the Workplace
People tend to associate bullying taking place among schoolchildren in a playground. However, bullying is alive and growing among adults, especially with the advent of digital technology and social media and it often comes into play in the world of work. Specialist...
A Decline in Mental Health – is this the Next Wave of the Pandemic?
At our second EduWeb Seminar on the 4th September, clinical psychologists, Kevashni Govender-Naidoo and Ayesha Booley-Schreuder of Impilo Consulting gave EduWeb seminar participants an outstanding presentation, providing thought-provoking insights on the coronavirus...
EAPA-SA Celebrates Their Eduweb Launch Seminar on 21 August 2020
EAPA-SA Embraces Online Learning The bar has been set very high by EAPA-SA as the Association keeps pace with the times, overcoming the coronavirus lockdown restriction on events by creating EduWeb, an online education portal through which a valuable programme of...
EAPA-SA’s Inaugural EduWeb Online Seminar: Substance Abuse During the Pandemic
With Carol Venter, one of South Africa’s specialists in the field of substance abuse and addiction, presenting important information and insights on this topic to over 180 attendees, EAPA-SA’s inaugural EduWeb seminar was a great success. A post-seminar member survey...
ARTICLES
Together we can Eradicate Abuse
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The Expanding Role of EAP in Long-term Disaster Management
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EAPs: Proven to Increase Employee Productivity and Engagement
The world of work is evolving at an incredible pace, changing in such a way that employees are finding it hard to keep up. Aware of this pressure, modern organisations care and have a vested interest in seeing their employees succeed both at work and in their personal...
Dare challenge gender bias and inequality in the workplace
Author: Sixolile Ngcobo , MD of The Well health Company , Gender and Sustainable Development Specialist at the Commission for Gender Equality and a Womaniko Associate. International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and...
One Year on From Lockdown: Preparing for a Post-Pandemic Workplace II
Soft skills refer to both character traits and interpersonal skills that will influence how well an individual can work or interact with others. In the world of work they can be described as non-technical skills and are sometimes referred to as transferable skills or...
One Year on From Lockdown: Preparing for a Post-Pandemic Workplace
A typical crisis plays out over three time frames: The Respond phase, in which an entity deals with present and unforeseen, situation; the Recover phase, during which its leaders learn and adapt so that the entity can roll with the punches and continue operating; and...
How to Craft a Meaningful Wellness Programme in the Light of COVID-19?
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Balancing Employee’s Social Media Use and Workplace Culture
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Counteracting Cyberbullying in the Workplace
The standard definition of bullying is, “repeated and unreasonable behaviour directed towards an employee or a group of employees that creates a risk to their health and safety”. The uncertainty and constant change brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has...
Workplace Culture Matters
Workplace culture embraces the character and personality of your organisation. It is what makes it unique and is made up by the sum of its values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviours, and attitudes. A positive workplace culture attracts talent, drives...