Mental Health Skills for Managers

To create mentally healthy workplaces, it’s vital to build supportive relationships between managers and team members. 

Overview

Delivered by workplace mental health experts, this four-hour training promotes a healthy performance culture, giving you the skills and confidence to have conversations about mental health and encourage people to seek support.   

 

Workshop objectives

Through an interactive instructor-led live session (zoom or in person), you will learn how to spot the signs of poor mental health in your team, signpost to appropriate tools and resources and become a self-care role model. 

By supporting the mental health of your team, you will: 

– Encourage your people to thrive 

– Increase talent retention 

– Reduce the impact of presenteeism and long-term sickness absence 

 

Who should attend?

Your people managers. They will learn to: 

– Feel confident having open conversations about mental health with their team members 

– Identify if an employee may be experiencing poor mental health 

– Appropriately signpost to available support 

– Role model good self-care practice and know where to go for support and guidance for themselves

 

Course format

  • This is a half-day, 4-hour course delivered either in person or via online video conferencing
  • Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
  • We limit numbers to 25 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn

 

Special features

Everyone who completes the course will receive:

  • A certificate of attendance
  • A manual to refer to whenever you need it
  • A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health

 

Workshop outline

 

1 Session. (4 hours) 

  • The importance of knowing your team
  • Understanding workplace stress
  • Prepare for a mental health conversation – including questioning, listening, responding and offering support
  • Conversational practice

 

Any questions?

 

Please just give us a call on 07859 878 599 or email wendy@garrettlearning.co.uk – we’re here to help!

Cost per person: £150 – includes digital resources, workbook and certificate.