Course Outcomes
By attending the Mental Health Skills for Managers 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
Price
The course is usually priced at £150 per person but we can offer discounts group bookings. Please get in touch to discuss.
Format
This is a half day course and can be delivered either in person or online.
Learning involves 30-minute self-reflective work before the course, an immersive training session led by an instructor with people management experience and group activities and discussions to share best practice.
We limit numbers to 16 people per course to allow for rich discussion.
Takeaways
On completion of the course, you will receive:
- A certificate of attendance
- Knowledge and tools to take care of their own mental health as a manager and empower their teams
- A digital workbook to use during the course
Course content
- 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
