Managing Mental Health in the Workplace

Course Description

Mental health challenges are increasingly affecting today's workplaces, and supervisors play a vital role in creating a supportive and productive work environment. This one-day workshop equips managers with practical tools to recognize signs of employee distress, respond with confidence and empathy, reduce stigma, and support individual and team well-being while maintaining workplace performance. This practical course covers:

• Differences between mental health and mental illness

• A leader's role in support mental well-being

• Signs that indicate an employee may be struggling

• Common mental health conditions

• Mental health stigmas and their impact on the workplace

• Conversation framework for having supportive conversations with others

• Resources to support team members' mental well-being

This course is suitable for anyone with responsibility for leading, coaching or supporting others in a workplace setting. Through live instruction and hands-on practice, participants will explore the differences between mental health and mental illness, understand a leader's role in supporting workplace well-being, recognize signs that an employee may be struggling, examine common mental health conditions and workplace stigmas, learn a practical framework for supportive conversations, and identify resources to help support team members' mental well-being.