Mental Health Awareness for Managers
Interactive

Mental Health Awareness for Managers

The Mental Health Project
Updated Aug 13, 2019

Course Overview

This award winning interactive and engaging course provides leaders and managers across industry with practical knowledge, skills, and tools to recognise, and effectively manage and support employees in your organisation experiencing a mental health condition. Length 45 minutes. Please note there is a different course available for employees and teams.

Target Audience

Frontline, emerging, senior and executive leaders and managers within any industry and any organisation globally, who have, or will have direct people leader/manager responsibilities

Learning Objectives

This award-winning and evidence-based course provides leaders and managers with practical knowledge, skills, and tools to recognise, and effectively manage and support employees in your organisation experiencing a mental health condition. The course includes information to:

  • Encourage helpful attitudes and behaviours towards employees with a mental health condition
  • Improve mental health condition literacy
  • Recognise the signs and symptoms of the most common mental health conditions (anxiety, depression and substance abuse)
  • Understand relevant organisational, manager and employee roles and responsibilities
  • How to have an effective conversation with someone experiencing a mental health condition and link them into help

Business Outcomes

This award winning and evidence-based mental health training course provides organisations with a high quality and time efficient option to train your leaders and managers locally, nationally and globally in mental health in the workplace and has been specifically designed to help your business:

  • Meet its legal and moral health and safety obligations for providing a psychologically safe workplace
  • Improve leader and manager awareness and knowledge of mental health in the workplace
  • Provide leaders with the skills and tools to effectively manage and support employees experiencing a mental health condition
  • Reduce the stigma associated with mental health in your workplace by encouraging helpful attitudes and behaviours towards colleagues with a mental health condition
  • Create a happier and mentally healthier workplace

An alternative course is available for employees and teams.