Mental Health Skills for Managers

This course is ideal for people managers at all levels across an organisation. The training promotes healthy performance culture, giving managers the skills and confidence to have conversations about mental health.

Learning Outcomes:

• 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 team to look after their own mental health and wellbeing

Benefits:

• Provides a consistent approach to mental health and wellbeing, promoting healthy performance across the whole organisation
• Managers learn how to spot the signs of poor mental health in their team, signpost to appropriate tools/resources, and become a self-care role model
• Evidence-based course suitable for a wide range of organisations, delivered by those with people management experience
• Supporting the mental health of teams encourages your people to thrive, increasing talent retention and reducing the impact of presenteeism and long-term sickness
• Encourages shared learning around mental health, examples of best practice, and how to challenge stigma

This course consists of a four-hour session which covers: 

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

The session will also contain activities so that the skills taught can be put into practice in smaller groups.

Learners will receive a certificate of attendance

Testimonial:

“We wanted our less experienced people managers to feel able to open up conversations about mental health with team members. This course was really helpful in laying down the foundations to give our managers both the skills and the confidence to start these potentially difficult conversations.”

MHFA England Client