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Mental Health Skills for Managers

Put wellbeing at the heart of your leadership approach to develop thriving teams with this practical and immersive course.

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To create a mentally healthy workplace it is vital to build supportive relationships between managers and team members. This four-hour training course will provide a consistent approach to mental health and wellbeing, promoting healthy performance across the whole organisation.

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This evidence-based course is ideal for people managers who want to help create an open culture around mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. The course is available online or face to face. 

Course outcomes 

By attending the course, you will learn to:

  • Identify if an employee may be experiencing poor mental health

  • Feel confident having open conversations about mental health with your team members

  • Appropriately signpost to available support and know where to go for support and guidance for yourself

  • Role model good self-care practice, inspiring your teams to look after their own mental health and wellbeing

Benefits of Mental Health Skills for Managers

Managers who are able to support the mental health of their teams will encourage employees to thrive, increasing talent retention and reducing the impact of presenteeism and long-term sickness absence. Providing this training to everyone with people management responsibilities will ensure a consistent approach to mental health and wellbeing across teams and departments. By role modelling good self-care practice, you will inspire others to look after their own mental health and wellbeing.

Format

  • Four-hour course delivered face-to-face or online

  • Immersive training session, led by an instructor with people management experience

  • Opportunities to practice embedding skills through group activities and discussions to share best practice

  • The course is delivered to a maximum of 16 people to allow for rich discussion

Takeaways 

  • Everyone who completes the course gets:

  • A certificate of attendance

  • Knowledge and tools to take care of their own mental health as a manager and empower their teams

  • Digital workbook to use during the course

Course Structure (4 hour session)

Mental health spectrum

The importance of knowing your team, knowing yourself, and early warning signs

Stress and workplace stressors

The Stress Container and barriers to mental health conversations

Preparing for mental health conversations

Including preparing for virtual conversations and managing remotely

Mental health conversation cycle

Effective questions, active listening, empathetic responses, supporting, and signposting

Wellbeing and stress in the workplace

Using the Stress Container for yourself

Commitments to change

What to do next to embed learning

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