Mental Health Skills for Managers (4 hours)
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Overview:
Empower managers to put wellbeing at the heart of their leadership approach.
Managers today face growing pressures — balancing their own workload, managing rising demands, and navigating ongoing uncertainty, all while supporting the wellbeing of their teams. Many feel underprepared and lack the skills or confidence to have meaningful conversations about mental health.
Managers shape the heart of work—nearly 70% of people say their manager influences their mental health as much as a partner, far more impact than that of doctors (51%) or therapists (41%). (UKG, Mental Health at Work)
Fewer than 29% of organisations provide line managers with mental health training. For those that do, 73% report their managers feel confident having sensitive discussions and signposting support (CIPD, 2025).
Mental Health Skills for Managers gives managers at all levels the tools to have meaningful conversations about mental health and wellbeing – enabling individuals, teams, and the wider organisation to thrive.
This course will build on your managers’ current experience and provide a practical structure around the conversations they are already having.
By investing in this training, you will be giving your managers the skills and confidence to have conversations about mental health and encourage staff to seek early support.
Learning outcomes:
By attending the course, managers will learn to:
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Describe mental health and the impact of stress on employees in the workplace
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Identify if a team member may be experiencing poor mental health
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Confidently have open conversations about mental health at work
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Respond empathetically to challenging situations related to mental health in the workplace
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Appropriately signpost your team members to available support
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Describe what support and guidance is available for yourself and your employees and how to access it
Everyone who completes the course gets:
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A certificate of attendance
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Tools to take care of their own mental health as a manager and empower their teams
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Physical workbooks available for face-to-face sessions
When managers are empowered with these skills and tools, they transform the employee experience. They proactively protect wellbeing, address issues before they escalate, and unlock higher levels of performance across their teams.
By role-modelling good self-care practice, your managers will inspire their teams to look after their own mental health and wellbeing.
Together, we can build workplaces where people and business outcomes thrive.