Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for Managers and Directors.
'Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for Managers and Directors' is a 2-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online.
Executive Summary:
This course is for managers and directors and focuses on how to manage in a way that generates good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and doing so in a realistic way that works well for everybody.
Many people spend more waking hours at work than they spend anywhere else, so it is imperative that we do our best to get matters right in the workplace.
Who should attend?
Managers and Directors committed to creating a workplace that engenders peak wellbeing.
The course covers a great deal:
Day 1:
- Developing a clear management philosophy: The RAID® Philosophy.
- How to develop good relationships: the 3 key factors, in order.
- Key Principle: Empower, and boost self-efficacy.
- Key Principle: Notice good things more than not so good things.
- Key Principle: Recognize and remove irritants.
- Key Principle: Apply these principles to yourself.
- Key Principle: Know how to ask people to do things.
- Key Principle: Know how to motivate the team.
- Key Principle: Use Feedback, and use it skillfully. Why give negative feedback? Why give positive feedback?
- Major Exercise: Making an action plan and using The Checklist.
Day 2: Focusing directly on mental health.
- The 5 major factors involved in mental health and wellbeing.
- Putting Square pegs in Square holes.
- Breaking out of the punishment cycle.
- Delegating skillfully and supportively.
- Biological factors, including: Sleep, Diet, Mood-altering substances, Exercise and Relaxation.
- Talking about emotions: is it a good idea?
- If not, what can we do?
- Social factors, including: when people actively dislike each other; people having no real friends at work; ongoing arguments and feuds at work; changes in role or workplace.
- Thinking style: Everything else can be pretty much perfect, and yet people can still spoil it for themselves by taking a gloomy or anxious perspective. So what then?
- Appraisal Interviews
- Making an action plan and using the Checklist.
- Quiz.
What you receive.
All delegates on this course receive a workbook covering all the slides in the presentation, a certificate of attendance, and registration as having attended.
Booking is easy...
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Quick Links
Mental Health Awareness and Workplace Mental Health ❯
How to develop your good mental health in the workplace, and help your colleagues do the same ❯
Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for managers and directors ❯
Mental Health Awareness, for people working with the general public ❯
Written Feedback.
APT prides itself on the written feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments our Mental Health Awareness courses have received.
"Was extremely impressed with the workshop and what was included, it gave me a better understanding about mental health. The tutor was exceptional and always expanded on his points! Amazing!"
"Presented in a brilliant way and just at the right pace. The course gave me a fantastic grounding of both mental health and mental illness."
"I found the whole exercise engrossing and enlightening. It was presented excellently and I came away feeling as though I have learnt something."
"A fascinating and very useful course. Very well delivered, extremely engaging. Has given me a real insight and was taught in such a way that I feel better equipped for the future."
