Welcome to your Staff Wellbeing Training Academy

Welcome to Understanding Mental Health for staff.

In this course you will learn:

1. What is mental health
2. Legal requirements surrounding mental health
3. Explore how having a healthy mental health workforce can help the organisation
4. Learn about personality disorders and how they differ from mental health illness
5. Establish symptoms of personality clusters
6. Identify why personality disorders are often difficult to diagnose
7. Explore how mental health issues can be caused or exacerbated by work
8. Review and identify symptoms, causes and common treatments for a range of mental health illnesses
9. Learn about presenteeism
10. Understand how to be supportive to someone with a mental health illness
11. Establish how to talk about mental health issues
12. Look at areas of change to create a healthier environment.

For managers there is an additional section to help you decide how competent you feel in the following areas:

• Managing emotions
• Communicating
• Supporting
• Managing difficult situations

Welcome to the Psychological Safety at Work course, part of the Health and Wellbeing Training for staff and managers.

Psychological safety is the principle that where we allow people to feel safe in the workplace and allow them to contribute their ideas and concerns, we are considerably more likely to develop a culture of knowledge and innovation.

Where fear at work is the dominating factor and people are scared to speak up through a worry that they will be dismissed, suppressed, ridiculed or even threatened, the chances of errors and mistakes increases while opportunities for growth are reduced.

The aim of creating a culture of psychological safety is to remove the feeling employees have that they should, ‘fit in’, ‘know their place’, ‘toe the line’ and go along with things in order to be accepted. By developing a culture that goes against this model and allows people to feel safe, empowered, fearless and able to speak up, we allow individuals to grow and excel and encourage performance improvements within the organisation.

During this training, we will be exploring these concepts and establishing how we can help develop a culture that exhibits psychological safety traits, giving you the skills to minimise errors and unleash the talent within your organisation.

At the end of this session you will be able to:

• Explain the concept of psychological safety
• Measure how psychologically safe your workplace is currently
• Identify what might be hindering psychological safety in your teams
• Create actions to help you build a psychologically safe workplace 

Welcome to the Developing Resilience course, part of the Health and Wellbeing Training for staff and managers.

Resilience is now recognised as a very important competence to demonstrate in the workplace. In the increasingly complex context of today’s working environment, the resilience of individuals, and organisations becomes critical for business success.

Resilience is the ability to cope with the challenges, problems and set-backs you face in life, and to become stronger because of them.

Resilience relies on different skills and draws on various sources of help, including rational thinking skills, physical and emotional health, and your relationships with those around you.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Define resilience and explain its importance
• Differentiate between positive and negative thinking
• Challenge the way you think
• Use the ladder of inference
• Develop a resilience grid
• Develop key Emotional Intelligence skills
• Help others to build resilience

 Welcome to the Anxiety at Work course, part of the Health and Wellbeing Training for staff and managers.

In this course we are going to take a good look at anxiety. As we progress, we will clarify what anxiety is, what it is caused by and why it is so important for us to know about it in the workplace.

Underpinning our course is a crucial message – making anxiety normal.

Ours will be a non-clinical approach – there is no medical or scientific element to this course; we’ll take a common sense, practical and straightforward stand.

This course is suitable for anyone at work. It has been designed to assist us all with achieving an understanding of what anxiety is and how it might be handled whether - as a sufferer, or as the manager or colleague of a sufferer.

When you reach the end of this course you will:

• Know what anxiety is and what it isn’t
• Be able to discuss the impact of anxiety on colleagues, on productivity and working life
• Know the role of the manager, employer and colleague of an anxious person – and the role of the sufferer
• Be able to draw sensible comparisons between anxiety and physical illnesses
• Produce a plan to define the action you will take to address the stigma attached to anxiety with a view to improving business performance.
 

Welcome to Wellness,  a course to help support your own wellness needs.

Throughout this course you will;

1. Understanding the concept of wellness and why it is important
2. Identifying factors which can lead to absence of wellness
3. Learning why wellness isn't always well received
4. Identifying the 6 areas of wellness
5. Reviewing examples of factors which affect your wellness
6. Identifying your own areas of wellness which are strong and weak
7. Explore Prochaska's stages of change
8. Learn about stages in the wellness change process
9. Review supportive resources 
10. Goal Setting

Welcome to the Leading Through Uncertainty course, part of the Health and Wellbeing Training for staff and managers.

The world is changing at an exponential rate, more than we’ve experienced in our lifetimes. Following the impact of a global pandemic, we are all experiencing brand new ways of working in a volatile and ever-changing environment. We have had to shift to managing our people from a distance, whilst ensuring we can help the wellbeing of our teams at the same time. This creates new tensions and dynamics in the way we lead, and certainly won’t be the last periods of change we will experience.

The purpose of this “Leading through Uncertainty” virtual training course is to give you the tools to lead your people effectively through this, and any, periods of uncertainty. We will look at how to motivate and support your people, whilst also ensuring your own resilience to allow you to thrive during challenging and uncertain times.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand what happens to our brains when faced with uncertainty, as well as the emotions we may feel during periods of transition
• Explore how our own personal resilience needs to come first to effectively help others, and what we can do to help us thrive
• Plan how we can bring clarity, no matter how small, into uncertain situations
• Identify ways we can set directions in periods of uncertainty 
• Understand what affects our people's mental well-being, and how we can help support their human needs
• Build trust based and supportive relationships with your people