Topic key points
- The NSW government in partnership with the Black Dog Institiute and Transitioning Well offer Workplace Mental Health Training (WMHT) and Workplace Mental Health Coaching (WMHC).
- These free programs help leaders and organisations build mentally healthy workplaces
- Eligible businesses need to be privately owned NSW businesses with less than 200 employees or a not-for-profit of any size.
Introduction to Topic
Workplace mental health coaching
Through confidential one-on-one sessions, your coach will help address issues or identify risks to mental health within your business and give you practical tools and strategies to manage them. They can also help you fine tune any existing initiatives you have in place.
Topics you could discuss include but aren’t limited to:
- coping with stress or overwhelm
- resolving workplace conflict
- managing staff who have poor mental health
- improving workplace culture
- creating a workplace mental health policy
- responding to incidents.
Our experts can train your workforce on how and why to protect psychological health at work.
They can also work with you one-on-one to fine tune your mental health initiatives, or confidentially coach your leaders on how to manage issues that may be affecting your employees’ mental health at work.
Workplace mental health training
Purpose: Learn about the benefits of a mentally healthy workplace, how leaders can better manage and support their team’s mental health, and what everyone can do to support their own mental health at work and support their colleagues.
Target audience: Training is available for leaders, managers and workers.
Eligibility:
- NSW businesses with less than 200 employees
- Not for profits of any size
There are three programs available:
Leading a Mentally Healthy Workplace – gives employers and executive leaders practical strategies to create a psychosocially safe and positive work environment.
What you will learn
- your legal responsibilities as an employer
- psychosocial risk factors in the workplace
- strategies to support mental health at work and how to embed them into your business
- how to design healthier workplaces through policies, job roles, and education.
How training is provided – Interactive workshop:
- 1-hour online training via Zoom
- delivered by a psychologist experienced in workplace mental health
- 20-25 participants per workshop
- you choose a time and location that works for you.
Managing for Team Wellbeing – helps managers and supervisors develop their wellbeing leadership skills to create a mentally healthier workplace.
What you will learn
- how to spot the early warning signs of mental ill-health and what to do
- your legal responsibilities as a manager
- how to have conversations with team members about mental health
- how to design healthier workplaces
- how to assist team members to stay at work, or to return to work after an absence
- steps you can take for your own self-care or to support others
- where to go if you need more support.
How training is provided
Interactive workshop:
- 3-hour training face-to-face or online via Zoom
- delivered by a psychologist experienced in workplace mental health
- 20-25 participants per workshop
- you choose a time and location that works for you.
Online learning:
- 2-hour training
- can be completed at any time.
Your Mental Health at Work – gives sole traders and employees practical strategies to care for their own mental health at work and support others.
What you will learn
- how to spot the early warning signs of mental ill-health and what to do
- how to have conversations at work about mental health
- what your work health and safety rights and responsibilities are
- steps you can take for your own self-care or to support others
- where to go for more support.
How training is provided
Interactive workshop:
2-hour training face-to-face or online via Zoom
- delivered by a psychologist experienced in workplace mental health
- 20-25 participants per workshop
- you choose a time and location that works for you.
Online learning:
- only takes 45-minutes
- can be completed at any time.
Process Considerations
- Sometimes clients may need more information about the coaching program to try and engage/convince a leader/owner. If you are on a triage with a client and this is the case, remember to let them know that they can add 30mins to their coaching time to work with their coach to get leader buy-in
Included Resources
- Workplace Mental Health Training
- Workplace Mental Health Coaching
- Common questions about the training
Copy for Clients
As mentioned, the NSW Government provides a variety of free programs that can help you to build a mentally healthy workplace. Below are some links that provide some more information about the free workplace mental health coaching and training programs. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the programs.