Supporting everyone’s wellbeing is essential for cultivating a mentally healthy workforce, and for retaining and motivating employees.

When there are good levels of mental wellbeing, we feel life is in balance and that we can cope effectively with what each day brings, as well as building our levels of resilience.

Poor mental wellbeing has profound personal costs, and also impacts on an organisation because of absenteeism, presenteeism, and employee turnover.

The role of managers and leaders in this respect is pivotal in creating, modelling and sustaining the day-to-day practices that promote high levels of performance and wellbeing.

Given the increased numbers of employees now working remotely, this additional facet presents managers and leaders with an additional set of challenges in being able to monitor and support the mental wellbeing of their (remote) employees.

Objectives

By attending this workshop, participants will –

• Understand how to look out for employees who are suffering with poor mental health, especially those who might try to hide their conditions and employees working remotely
• Know how to encourage team members to talk about their feelings and emotions, and why that sits at the foundation of good mental health
• Be able to promote a culture where their teams look out for the wellbeing of one another
• Learn what skills managers need to promote wellbeing and how to apply them
• Know how to provide or access timely and appropriate support

Content

• Why promoting Mental Wellbeing is so important
• Fears and concerns within our society
• Different types of Mental Health Conditions
• Signs and symptoms of stress and anxiety
• Ways distress shows up, workplace factors that underlie it, and what to do about it
• Monitoring the emotions of employees who work remotely
• What to do when someone is off sick with stress or a mental health condition
• How to champion mental wellbeing
• Managing conversations using empathy, sympathy and non-judgemental questions
• Practical steps to help individuals support their own wellbeing
• Support structures for mental health