Workplace Mental Health Awareness for Managers
“Very open and conversational. Felt like a safe space and learned a lot.”
Target audience
This workshop is designed for teams managers. It will suit leaders of individual contributors, and leaders of managers.
Note: we will review the target audience with you prior to delivering the workshop to gather more insight to make the workshop more relevant to your participants.
Program format | Interactive workshop
Length | 2.5 hours
Format | Face-to-face or online
Limit | 25 participants
Facilitator | Experienced business leader with 7+ Years of Leadership Experience
CONTEXT
This workshop is designed to provide managers with the knowledge and skills and a framework to have conversations about mental health in the workplace, both on a 1:1 basis, and also to help remove the stigma around these conversations at the team level. They will walk away with confidence to check-in with their peers and staff at work.
As always, we make this workshop as practical as can be by running you through a number of exercises throughout, and offering proven concepts from others clients of ours.
Attendees will walk away with 2 frameworks (1 per learning outcome). Summaries will be provided so they can refer back to them, and a number of exercises they can refer back to in times of need.
“Employers are increasingly asking managers to attend mental health training to address widespread anxiety and depression among Australian workers.”
Why Now?
In 2022, we saw the demand from our clients for this workshop rise significantly. When we ask our clients this question “Why Now?”, a few trends have emerged.
They acknowledge their managers don’t feel confident leading conversations about mental health. This is true both at the team, and individual level.
HR and OHS leaders have seen the signs: Australian government recommendations are calling for more manager training as well as greater awareness of the need to address mental health in the workplace.
Attracting and retaining top talent has been the #1 focus of most Australian organisations over the past decade. Organisations that evaluate Best Places to Work, such as WRK+, put an emphasis on wellbeing in the workplace. ‘Wellbeing Support & Community’ is one of their 8 pillars. Leaders understand that part of wellbeing support is strong mental health awareness.
DELIVERY STYLE
We can deliver on this topic with a webinar : 120 minutes virtually, delivered to maximum 25 participants.
We can deliver this in person. 2.5 hours, also capped at 25 participants.
Note we recommend 10-15 participants has a right size audience. Given these are sensitive topics, keeping the audience size a little smaller tends to improve the quality of the session.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcome #1: The Mental Health awareness framework
Icebreaker: Leaders modelling healthy behaviours and boundaries
How common are mental health issues?
Discussion around the warning signs, and how to spot them.
The 5 Step Framework for conversations.
Scenario Practice.
Learning Outcome #2: Foundational Principles of Looking out for your team
How you set the standard as a leader.
Knowing what help is available, and promoting resources regularly.
Radical transparency, psychological safety and respect. Big topics broken down into 6 pillars.
Checking-in in your 1:1s
Group Exercise with your peers: Team Rituals
WHAT ATTENDEES ARE SAYING
“Absolutely fantastic! Really insightful and personable. Thank you so much.”
“It was very eye opening. It made me stop and think about how I’m able to best help myself as well as others.”
“I liked the pace and the focus on practical application”
Would you Like a Sneak Peak of the workshop?
If you would like a little more context around the structure and the main take-aways of this workshop, we would be very happy to guide you through and overview.
If you’re curious as to what makes In Bloom workshops different to other workshops, we can also run you through how we differentiate from others that offer offer wellbeing workshops.
PRICING | INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
2.5 hour in-person workshop | $2,500+GST
Some Articles we wrote on the topics that may help
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