Mental Health Matters - Managers

 

Provides managers and leaders with an understanding of common mental health illnesses and teaches how to support team members and enhance personal wellbeing.

Managers and leaders play a pivotal role in creating, modelling and sustaining the day to day practices that promote high levels of performance and wellbeing. This training is designed to provide:

  • Increased knowledge about common mental health conditions that arise in the workplace

  • Increased competence and confidence to address mental health and illness, including how to have conversations successfully with people who may be unwell or returning to work

  • An understanding of stigma and promoting zero tolerance of stigma of all kinds

  • How to support their own and others’ mental and emotional wellbeing, and know where the boundaries of their work role lie

The course is created and delivered by our mental health lead, a medical Dr with a background in psychiatry and public health and a thought leader in the field of mental health, workplace wellbeing and the science that brings all these things together.

Available Formats

We offer a number of different formats to provide flexibility and best fit for your business:

E-learning - This flexible on-demand format enables people to watch at their own pace, in their own time and revisit any lesson as many times as they want.

3-hours total content, made up of:

  • 4 distinct modules

  • 12 x 15 min lessons

  • Course handbook

  • Reflective questions at the end of each module

Optional live element - opportunity to add on live sessions to further learning and provide chance to raise questions and share experiences.

Live virtual delivery – 2 x 90 min live webinars, plus a short video as pre-work. Suitable for up to 20 participants.

Live in-person delivery - 5-hours of training (plus breaks). Suitable for up to 16 participants.

What is covered?

Making Sense of Mental Health

  • Why bother? Financial, legal and moral reasons

  • What is “mental health” - myths, misunderstandings and what we can do about this

  • The illness-wellbeing continuum and three key messages

  • Examining stigma, where it comes from, what perpetuates it and what we can do about it

Understanding What can go Wrong and What you Can Do

  • The role of stress and burnout in mental health, productivity and performance, the underlying science, the danger signs to look out for and good practices to minimise their occurrence

  • Psychological Safety and building trust

  • Easily implemented ways to take care of personal wellbeing, recover from challenging situations, model good work practices, and build a culture of Sustainable Workplace Prosperity.

Ways we Label Inner Distress

  • Understanding anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours and conditions when people may be at immediate risk: the signs and symptoms to look out for

Managing for Wellbeing

  • Listening and rapport: how to have constructive conversations with others who may be struggling

  • How to support someone who is/has been absent and is returning to work

  • “Reasonable adjustments” and knowing where you stand legally

  • What next: personal and organisational “next steps” to reduce mental ill-health, protect those who are struggling, eradicate stigma and promote wellbeing and success (SWP)

It was incredibly valuable to understand more about how peers feel in the work place and how they approach situations related to their mental health and that of the people they manage

- Participant at MG OMD

This was a massive investment for us so it was important to get this right. Feedback was outstanding and Dr B who rolled out this training is now a friendly and familiar face within the agency.

- HR Director at MG OMD

Key Outputs:

  • Increased knowledge about common mental health conditions that arise in the workplace

  • Increased competence and confidence to address mental health and illness, including how to have conversations successfully with people who may be unwell or returning to work

  • An understanding of stigma andpromoting zero tolerance of stigma of all kinds

  • How to support their own and others’ mental and emotional wellbeing, and know where the boundaries of their work role lie

 
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