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An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a strategic work-based intervention programme designed to enhance the psycho-social well-being of all individual employees and the well-being of the employer as corporate client towards improved productivity of the workforce at large.

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We Can Do it All

The rationale of WEC is to promote the EAP concept at large through consultation and training with specific focus on accountability, monitoring and evaluation in the EAP and Wellness fields

An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a strategic work-based intervention programme designed to enhance the psycho-social well-being of all individual employees and the well-being of the employer as corporate client towards improved productivity of the workforce at large.

01. Consultancy to new EAPs

According to ROI principles

  • Design of EAPs
  • Implementation
  • Management and admin
  • Clinical services
  • Non-clinical services
    • Supervisory training
    • Marketing
    • Consultation
  • Pro-active services
  • Stakeholder management
  • Monitoring and Evaluation

02. Training in the EAP field

  • Supervisory training
  • Management training
  • Labour

03. Research for the creation and development of SA benchmarks in general and in ROI context specifically

  • Explore and describe SA Benchmarks
  • National trends

04. Monitoring and evaluation

  • Evaluation of existing monitoring and evaluation practices in corporate companies and government departments
  • Redesign where necessary of M & E measurements
  • Implementation of tailor-made M & E processes to ensure accurate ROI studies

05. EAP Coaching

⦁ Personal coaching of EAP coordinators, practitioners, professionals and specialists.

06. Mediation & EAPS

  • Family mediation
  • Supervisory/managerial mediation

BASELINE AND PRINCIPLES

What is the EAP all about? (Terblanche, 2018)

‘An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a strategic work-based intervention programme designed to enhance the psycho-social well-being of all individual employees and the well-being of the employer as corporate client towards improved productivity of the workforce at large'

THE GOAL

The goal is to provide proactive and reactive interventions, through the application of acknowledged core technologies for the early identification and/or resolution of both work and personal challenges that may adversely affect performance and well-being.

These challenges and issues may include, but are not limited to relationships, health, trauma, substance abuse, gambling and other addictions, financial problems, mental and psychiatric disorders, communication, legal, structural and transformational issues.’

Core technologies of the EAP as acknowledged by

Workplace Enrichment Consultants

EAP Supervisory & Managerial Training
  • Exploring the training environment
  • Writing of curriculum for specific target groups
  • Development of training material
  • Training of supervisors
  • Training of union representatives
  • Training of employees
  • Training of managers
Marketing of the EAP
  • Development of tailor-made promotional material
  • Writing of a marketing plan
  • Defining of marketing strategies
Clinical Services
  • Election of clinical approaches
  • Structuring of treatment plan
  • Ethics in counselling
Preventative Services
  • Risk assessment to determine high risk area
  • Development of tailor-made prevention programmes
  • Guidance in the management of prevention programmes
  • ROI in terms of prevention
Consultation
  • Regarding EAP related matters
  • Regarding wellness aspects in the workplace
  • Changing and adapting organisational climate and organizational culture
Networking

 

  • Understanding the role and art of networking
  • Networking strategies
  • Networking in practice
Monitoring & Evaluation

 

  • Differentiating between monitoring and evaluation
  • Monitoring in practice
  • Ethics in evaluation
  • Evaluation in practice
  • Required data for monitoring and evaluation
  • Monitoring as a process
  • Evaluation start at the beginning
  • ROI in practice
Research
  • Challenging research challenges
  • Creating a culture of research
  • Executing specific research projects on request

Workplace EnrichmentConsultants (WEC)

WEC is a close corporation created in 2005

Company registration number: 2005/061857/23