Managers, Leaders & HR Professionals Mental Health Workshop

This powerful 1 day workshop is aimed at all managers, leaders and HR professionals. The workshop is designed to help attendees understand and fulfil their responsibilities around their team's mental health and wellbeing; to equip them to support their teams effectively; and to help them to establish a healthy workplace wellbeing culture where every individual is supported and enabled to thrive.

Having attended this training, delegates will have the skills, knowledge and resources to identify signs of poor mental health and wellbeing within the workplace, to provide appropriate support to anyone experiencing poor mental health at work; and to support their teams to balance life and work.

Learning objectives
By the end of this session, delegates should be able to:

• Define the role of managers, leaders and HR professionals in workplace mental health and wellbeing
• Identify risk factors for stress and poor mental health within the workplace
• Discuss stigma, what contributes to it, and feel confident challenging stigmatising language/behaviour
• Describe how managers can contribute to a psychologically safe and healthy working environment

PRESENTER:

CLAIRE RUSSELL, Founder & CEO, Mental Health in Business; TEDx Speaker; Keynote Speaker; Coach

Claire’s vision is to lead a global shift in mental health in the workplace. With her personal lived experience of mental ill health, and losing her partner to suicide in 2018; she is passionate about helping to effect change, break down taboos and open up the conversation about mental health. She is a (youth and adult) mental health first aid instructor, a suicide awareness and intervention trainer and creator of multiple mental health training programs.

Until early 2021 (alongside her work in mental health) Claire owned and ran insurance broking businesses for more than 20 years, so she understands well the challenges faced by business owners and leaders.

She is also a prolific speaker - speaking candidly about her own experiences, and speaking on a range of issues relating to wellness and workplace mental wellbeing. She continues to be a committed volunteer, passionately supporting suicide prevention charities (now, PAPYRUS and formerly Samaritans)