Managing Wellbeing (Online)

Mental health and wellbeing is an essential topic for all managers and leaders to understand, especially in today’s challenging times. Becoming familiar with not only your responsibilities but also on how you take action is vital in fulfilling your role and in helping you maintain your team’s effectiveness and cohesiveness.

Content

• What is meant by the terms ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’.
• Understand how mental health issues can impact on workplace behaviour.
• Planning and conducting conversations about mental health.
• Managing performance concerns.
• Understanding stress.
• Individual/team/organisational strategies to reduce stress and build resilience.

Outcomes

• Understand the common experience of mental health concerns.
• Understand organisational/managerial obligations in managing mental health.
• Have a framework to discuss mental health concerns.
• Feel confident in running a meeting to discuss mental health concerns.
• Develop an individual action plan to manage stress.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for anyone who is currently in a management or supervisory role.

Benefits to You and Your Organisation

• Early intervention where mental health impacts performance.
• Skills building for managers.
• Improvements in team cohesion & communication.
• Increase psychological wellbeing in the workplace which increases productivity and decreases absenteeism.
• Provides employees with wellbeing tools that help meet duty of care obligations under WH&S policies.
• Return on investment in mental health initiatives in organisations has been estimated to be $2.30 for every $1 invested.
• With around 20% of Australians experiencing mental health difficulties in any year, managing wellbeing is a critically important topic for organisations and leaders.