About “Getting Support”

GettingSupport.net was first launched in 2019 to provide business services and consultation to anyone who is thinking about starting a new business or anyone who is looking at changes to their current business model.

With the onset of COVID-19 at the beginning of 2020, businesses suffered under constant lockdowns and closures. It became very difficult for us to provide services to businesses closing their doors after struggling financially with time limited and insufficient financial aid from State and Federal governments.

Now that businesses are starting to re-open with the Australian Governments Roadmap recovery plan and the States reading their targets of 70% and 80% of the population being fully vaccinated (two doses), we can start to re-open also.

GettingSupport is about offering services that suit your needs. To this end we have tried to focus on a number of specific areas…

• First Australians (Indigenous clients, staff and community).
• LGBT Community Supports.
• Mature Aged Men’s Supports.
• Business Consultation (Policies, Procedures, Forms, etc).
• Employment Supports (Job Applications, Resumé and C.V. design).

Although we still offer our business consultation services, we have altered our primary focus to help businesses with Indigenous Australian staff, clients and the wider Indigenous community. This includes the development of Cultural Policies, Procedures, Documents, Flyers, Brochures, Wording, Special Celebrations, Dealing with Community expectations, cultural inclusion and cultural supervision.

After being in business for well over 20 years in both mainstream and Aboriginal community organisations, I am now retired and I am caring for my elderly father. But the knowledge of so many years in business has given me a number of insights in supporting Aboriginal staff and clients including the needs and expectations of a wider Aboriginal community.

Having researched the concepts of Supervision of staff in an organisation, it has clearly shown that work performance supervision is vital to maintaining and building an effective workforce. But for many Aboriginal staff in both mainstream and Aboriginal community organisations one area that lacked significant support was the area of CULTURAL SUPERVISION.

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