Managers who are able to support the mental health of their teams will encourage employees to thrive, increasing talent retention. Providing this training to everyone with people management responsibilities will ensure a consistent approach to mental health and wellbeing across teams and departments, promoting healthy performance throughout the whole organisation.

The British Safety Council recommends “all line managers/heads of departments must be appropriately trained in mental health awareness and the relevant support mechanisms, so they have the confidence to communicate with employees with care and sensitivity.”

Managers will learn
 

- Understanding the science behind mental health difficulties and how it escalates.
- Understanding how mental health affects different age groups/sexes to prevent
absenteeism, presenteeism and low productivity.
- Giving the skills to have awkward conversations with confidence and care.
- Understanding the importance of proactive mental health support and why it is more affective than passive policies and strategies.
- How to recognise the early signs of mental health and provide support
- How to interact with struggling colleagues of all ages in a relaxed and affective manner.
- Creating a mental health inclusive culture within the entire team......breaking down mental health barriers.
- Providing a toolkit with processes and framework they can use in the future enabling managers to have a more uniform and joined up approach to mental health.
 

Training outcomes
 

- Providing managerial mental health support is proven the best way to support all your colleagues and supports your legal duty of care requirements.
- Department Heads will have a process and framework they can use in the future to ensure a more joined up approach to mental health.
- Department Heads will have personal confidence to deal with colleagues to discuss any mental health issues and provide the correct support for each situation.
- Up-skilling of Department Heads.
- Builds resilience within the entire company.
- Reduces the likely hood of absenteeism due to mental health.
- Reduces mental health stigma and discrimination.
- Creates an inclusive and open workplace environment.
 

Format
 

- 6 hour course delivered in person at a location of your choice.
- Immersive live training session, led by an experienced associate trainer.
- Opportunities to practice embedding their skills through group activities and discussions to share best practice.
- The course can be delivered to a maximum of 12 people to allow for rich discussion.
 

Takeaways
 

Everyone who completes the course gets:

- A certificate of attendance.
- Tools to take care of their own mental health as a manager and support and empower their teams.
- Access to our online hub.
- Digital support resource to help embed ongoing learning and development

For best long term results we recommend a follow up training after 3 months which could be managed online and would last 90 minutes. The training is optional but will serve as a way of further embedding what the team learned in the initial session and support any difficulties they are having when implementing the concepts in real life situations.

Refresher courses to maintain managerial skills are recommended every 12 months.