Mental Health Skills for Managers

Managers who are able to support the mental health of their teams will encourage employees to thrive, increasing talent retention and reducing the impact of presenteeism and long-term sickness absence. Providing this training to everyone with people management responsibilities will ensure a consistent approach to mental health and wellbeing across teams and departments. By role modelling good self-care practice, you will inspire others to look after their own mental health and wellbeing.

By attending the course, you will learn to:

• Identify if an employee may be experiencing poor mental health

• Feel confident having open conversations about mental health with your team members

• Appropriately signpost to available support and know where to go for support and guidance for yourself

• Role model good self-care practice, inspiring your teams to look after their own mental health and wellbeing