The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course for Managers Managing Wellbeing. This course helps managers understand and identify the factors that influence employee vulnerability, use tools and frameworks to take practical action, mitigate potential risks, and improve workplace well-being and satisfaction. This course helps managers recognize early warning signs of increased vulnerability in team members and proactively manage stress and mental illness risks. It is designed around a practical framework that managers can use to improve the well-being of the people who work for them. The framework used in the course has been developed and refined to be easily understood and applied in the workplace. By focusing on positive actions to improve their health at work, participants commented on how they felt more confident and energized after taking the course. The course is highly interactive and includes a variety of group and individual exercises including case studies, scenarios, surveys, group discussions, personal reflections, and action plans.

Who should attend? 

• Senior Managers.
• Line Managers.
• Team Leaders.
• HR, Health and Safety.
• Occupational Health.
• Trade Union Representatives.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Encourages investment in improved working relationships between managers and their employees.
• Training is positively focused and energizing.
• Raise awareness that happiness is influenced by many factors that can be controlled.
• Improving your health and job satisfaction not only improves your overall health, but also your overall performance.
• Managers are armed with actionable tools and frameworks to identify risks and manage health at work.

• Studying Factors That Affect Happiness.
• Your Personal “Assessment” and Action Plan for Better Health.
• Introducing a “Managing Wellbeing Formula” approach to risk management.
• Case study exercises to explore the factors that influence individual vulnerability and organizational impact.
• Understanding the relationship between work pressure and vulnerability.
• Introduction to HSE category of working pressure.
• Proactively manage your wellbeing at work with the Work Pressure Profiling Tool.
• Impact of Employee Characteristics and Behavior on Vulnerability.
• Exercise: How well do you know the people you lead?
• Identify practical strategies for increasing happiness and satisfaction at work.
• Increase awareness of the impact of one's own characteristics, behaviors and reactions.
• Exercise: How do you react?
• Practical strategies for managing reactions, regulating behavior and minimizing risk.
• Recognizing and managing stress risks within the team.
• Understand the impact of the situation and make appropriate adjustments.
• Exploring measures to foster a culture of openness and trust.
• Scenario exercise: Examples of how situations can increase vulnerability and how support/adaptation can minimize well-being risks.
• Reflect on learning and develop a realistic action plan to enhance well-being
• Overview of the Managing Wellbeing resources download and how this can help with ongoing personal development.