Mental Health Skills for Managers

Half day (3.5 hours)

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.

By attending the course, you will learn to:

• Describe mental health and the impact of stress on employees in the workplace

• Identify if a team member may be experiencing poor mental health 

• Confidently have open conversations about mental health at work

• Respond empathetically to challenging situations related to mental health in the workplace 

• Appropriately signpost your team members to available support

• Describe what support and guidance is available for yourself and your employees and how to access it

Format

Half day 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

Everyone who completes the course gets:

• A digital certificate of attendance 

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

• Digital workbook for online sessions

• Physical workbooks available for face-to-face sessions