How to understand and cope with Mental Health in the Workplace

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand how to recognise mental wellbeing in the workplace and how to cope when this, often invisible, illness presents itself.

DESIGNED FOR

All employers managers and leaders, including business owners and supervisors that are interested in supporting their people with mental illness in the workplace

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Take away a greater understanding of what steps you can take as a leader, or business owner, to create a safe environment for people to discuss issues and help better manage mental wellbeing in the workplace, starting right back to how you recruit your staff.

In this course, you will learn:

What is mental illness in the workplace?
How to recognise it in the workplace?
How to cope with it in the workplace?
Steps to take to aspire to manage it in the workplace
Steps to take to manage unsustainable non-performance
Case Study – what can you learn from a real-life example
Q&A

DURATION

2.5 hours

FACILITATOR

Victoria Robertson Dunedin

With over 25 years’ experience in Leadership, Marketing, Business, HR & Recruitment, working within the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Victoria has a wealth of skills, knowledge, and expertise to assist and support businesses today. Experience spread across international corporations through to independently owned businesses.

Whilst her knowledge extends across all aspects of HR and recruitment, Victoria also has considerable experience in direct leadership, people development, change management and strategic thinking.

With a Graduate Diploma in Human Resources, and a Degree in Business Management, majoring in business change & transformation and sales & marketing, Victoria has been responsible for the leadership of staff, employer branding, candidate attraction campaigns, people engagement, training and development, succession planning and the well-being of thousands of employees over her entire career, spanning across a wide network of industries. Currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Social Services majoring in Mental Health Support, Victoria is passionate about the overall well-being of people in the workplace.

In more recent years, Victoria was the co-Director of Human Connections Group, where she partnered with SME business in the Otago & Southland area, to support and assist in cultural development, staff attraction, engagement and retention, skills training and development, including psychometric evaluations, leadership growth and best practice.