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The hospitality industry is renowned for its unforgiving nature, with gruelling, anti-social hours, fierce competition, and the pressure of maintaining impeccable customer service. Finding success in this unique world can be an intense experience, adding pressure personally and on our relationships. It’s no wonder then that the hospitality industry has one of the highest incidents of workplace mental health problems. Mindful of this significant issue in our industry, THA jumped at the chance to be involved with the inaugural ‘ The Mind Games Race for

Research ’, which was held on 18th October this year. The Mind Games Race for Research was a fun, action-packed event established with the aim of raising money for research into mental health in the workplace. Fifty corporate teams of five people per team were put through their paces in ten fun challenges, all set up in The Goods Shed at Macquarie Point. Teams had to solve the challenges or complete the task before they could move on to the next one. It was a test of general skills, creativity and above all, teamwork! Teams were faced with challenges as diverse as a Silent Disco, where members had to dance out the titles of songs for their team mates to guess, through to creating a Tassie Icon using only bread products. Tassie’s own icon – David Boon – was on hand to be the judge of the efforts in that stage (activity)! As well as being the major Networking sponsor for The Mind Games, THA also had a team competing in the day and whilst we did not take out a prize, we can report that we definitely had a heap of FUN and learned a lot about how each other thinks and works!

Success at work doesn’t depend on the amount of time you work; it depends upon the quality of your work. And the quality of our work is highly dependent on our well-being. More than $70,000 was raised through The Mind Games Race for Research, and this money was donated to The Menzies Institute for Medical Research, whom will use these funds to continue their incredible work researching ways to combat and solve workplace mental health issues, helping to improve the well-being of employers and employees throughout Australia. As a follow up from the Mind Game, staff at the THA are now working with Sherri Ring, CEO of the The Mind Games and director of Energy Health Concepts , a workplace health and wellbeing company to look after the health and wellbeing of

our people and in December, the THA board and some staff, participated in a two hour session with FIFTHQTR , a specialist consultancy that provides evidence-based training solutions to organisations with the skills and confidence to respond effectively to signs of mental health challenges in the workplace. At THA we walk the talk around our commitment to metal health in the workplace!

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