Mental Health Skills for Managers

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

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.
 
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. See our ‘Book a course’ section below to view upcoming courses.

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

COST:

£150 per person. In-house group training also available

NEXT ONLINE COURSE:

Dates TBC

(4 hour session – 9.30am-1.30pm)

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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

  • 30-minute self-reflective work before the course
  • 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
     

Accessibility

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