Workplace Wellbeing Course For Managers/Supervisors - Full Day

Course Outline

What is it like to be ‘working well’ – as an individual, a workplace, a community? How does your workplace affect your mental health? How can businesses become healthier and more successful?

We spend many hours at work, so inevitably our workplaces have an impact on our mental health – on our thoughts, feelings and consequently our behaviour. High levels of workplace stress and poor workplace responses to it are damaging employee wellbeing and having adverse consequences on successful enterprise.

This workshop covers a variety of topics to help develop and support mentally healthy workplaces in this country. There are practical tips on managing the very best business asset that any workplace has – its people. There are also suggestions on how to look after our mental wellbeing, the key to workplace profitability, personal success and community growth.

There is a progression through the workshop, from considering what a mentally healthy workplace is to developing policies and protocols, to enacting the principles when dealing with difficulties. The textbook provided is to be used when needed, from where to seek help or how to solve a problem or promote a better way of operating.

This course is designed for anyone in the workplace with a supervisory position, such as General Managers, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders.

On completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define mental health and explore features of mentally healthy workplaces.
• Explore physical, mental, social, sexual and spiritual aspects of health.
• Build capacity to strengthen relationships and derive increased satisfaction in balancing work and leisure.
• Develop effective interpersonal communication by engaging in interactions involving giving and receiving feedback and resolving conflict
• Plan a mentally healthy workplace consultation
• Define good workplace practices
• Identify appropriate ways to detect and help people work through the following : stress at work, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, workplace bullying, traumatic events at work, grief, suicide, and alcohol and drugs.
• Increase knowledge of other mental health difficulties, such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorders, psychoses and post-natal disorders.
• Establish a knowledge base of where to get help for individuals at risk and clarify how the CCC’s EAP program operates

• What is a mentally healthy workplace?
• Working well together
• Communicating well
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Managing confrontation
• The importance of a work/life balance
• Knowledge of job descriptions and induction policies
• Awareness of personal and organisational stress
• Stress management tips
• Recognising anxiety and depression
• Recognising and dealing with workplace bullying
• How to deal with traumatic events at work and suicide
• Alcohol and drugs in the workplace
• Being aware of other mental health problems
• Bipolar disorder, psychosis, post-natal disorders
• Establish a knowledge base of where to get help towards a mentally healthy workplace

This is a full day course with a ½ day follow-up within 4 to 6 months. It is for a maximum of 15 participants per workshop.

TherapyWorks can customise the workshop to suit the specific needs of participants and organisations.