Broader support networks
Widening your support network
As part of planning out your program in the long run, it is important focus your efforts in growing your support networks and bringing more stakeholders along your journey to improve mental health and wellbeing of your community.
In this section, we invite you to visualise what your network look like, and where should you focus your efforts to reach out in the long run.
Noting that, while growing your network is important, there is tradeoff in reaching too far from your core community and putting more pressures in your ability to manage your program. We recommend focusing on your inner circle, before reaching out to the outer circle of your community.
Reach diagram
Reach diagram example
Tips from KCCI: While it is important to aim for the longer term perspective, we need to make sure that we don’t pull ourselves apart and try to engage to every single initiative and activity that’s happening. We need to make sure that we are there serving our Members and the business community and that's our that's our focus.
In order to make the most of your initiatives, it is highly recommended that chambers utilise the key dates in the year to gain activation and attention from their community.
A list of key dates for Queensland businesses have been provided below. We have also provided an example of how this calendar may look like on this page.
Key dates in the year:
- R U OK Day : 8 September
- Mental Health Week: October
- QLD Small Business Month: May
- Indigenous Business Month: October
Building your event calendar
Below is an example on how a chamber can organise their incentives and activities around the key dates of the year. Leveraging the attention and messaging around these key dates and events can help improving the impacts of your wellness initiatives.
