Mental Health and Total Wellness at the Workplace

There’s no question that the past few years have had an impact on the mental health and well-being of the more than 3 billion people in the global workforce. Major events – from the pandemic to social unrest and now financial uncertainty – have taken their toll on our workplace communities. Now, more than ever before, it is critical that we build healthy organizational cultures to protect our teams’ well-being, but also recognize the impact mental and behavioral health issues can have on a company's bottom line.

Every year businesses lose billions of dollars due to mental and behavioral health issues experienced by members of their workforce or their family members. These financial losses can be attributed to absenteeism, a decrease in productivity, and medical claims.

In addition, there are considerable reputational repercussions due to high employee turnover, job dissatisfaction, and poor morale. Identifying workers at all levels of an organization with mental or behavioral health issues and securing assistance for them is essential.

This Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace course, developed by Greenville Consulting, will teach participants about the prevalence rates and symptoms of the most common mental and behavioral disorders, what to look for in employee behaviors that may suggest an impairment, how to approach the employee, and what resources you should consider to help your employees as well as attract and retain top talent.

In addition, a focus will be placed on wellness in the workplace. Questions such as the following will be addressed:

What does a healthy workplace look like?

How can employers foster such an environment?

What can employees do while at work to manage stress and anxiety as well as improve focus and productivity?

This Greenville training course aims at raising awareness among employees of mental health and wellness issues that people might experience and just raising awareness of mental health issues is often enough to make a difference.

Sometimes people assume that mental health issues are rare occurrences and they do not understand that instead, they can happen more often than we think and anyone can be affected.

Just being able to understand how some mental and wellness issues can manifest themselves, who to talk to if there is a problem and how to approach the issue will help your employees feel more confident in dealing with this very sensitive topic.

The training course is also aimed at teaching your participants strategies to incorporate mindfulness activities into a busy daily schedule.

Employees who take the course can sharpen their skills in identifying colleagues who may be in distress and offer assistance. In fact, it could be argued that colleagues are more likely to understand the personal lives of their peers and notice behavioral changes more quickly.

Course Objectives

The learning objectives of the mental health awareness and wellness in the workplace training materials are for the participants to be able to:

• Define mental health and wellness
• Identify symptoms of mental health and wellness problems
• Discuss why it is important to support mental health and wellness in the workplace
• Discuss strategies to support mental health and wellness at work
• Identify what mindfulness is and the difference between formal and informal mindfulness
• Discuss how work-life balance and mindfulness can help them for total wellbeing
• Practice exercises as part of their daily activities

Training Benefits

Wellness in the workplace offers many benefits for employees and organizations alike and these benefits include:

• Reduced stress among employees
• Reduced staff turnover, as employees feel more valued
• Increased productivity and total wellness
• A lower level of sickness absences
• Better teamwork and fewer opportunities for conflict and trauma

Training Methodology

Greenville Talent Solutions designs and develops training courses to cater to our training audience and their distinctive professional background and experience. Classroom sessions with presentations by highly experienced facilitators form a major part of our training programmes.

We support trainee participation through group discussions, role-plays, group activities, assessments and more. Trainees are also requested to share their know-how, issues, concerns and best practices from their respective organisations, which are facilitated by the trainer to enhance learning for the entire participant group.

Greenville Talent Solutions follows ‘Do–Review–Learn–Apply’ Model.

Course outline

SESSION 1: OVERVIEW AND IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AND ADDICTION IN THE WORKPLACE

This module sets the context for the course and introduces the business case for addressing mental health and wellness in the workplace. Participants will be presented with the financial impact of mental health and wellness in the workplace, and gain an understanding of how the remainder of the course will proceed and what they can be expect to learn. 

SESSION 2: THE CHANGING CLIMATE OF THE WORKPLACE

This module introduces the concept of the changing workplace culture to promote wellness. Participants will gain an understanding of how leaders can support employees by making mental health and wellness a priority in the workplace.

SESSION 3: FOUNDATIONS OF IDENTIFICATION AND APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AND ADDICTION

This module introduces foundational information on the identification and approach to mental health, behavioral health, and addiction topics. Participants will gain an understanding of how they can prepare themselves to identify and approach these challenges in the workplace through learning key concepts and terms about mental health, behavioral health, and addiction, and the history of how these have been identified and approached in the past.

SESSION 4: IDENTIFYING MENTAL HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AND ADDICTION ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE

This module introduces common challenges related to mental health, behavioral health, and addiction that may be seen in the workplace. Participants will gain an understanding of how to identify these concerns and how to determine the level of urgency in addressing them.

SESSION 5: APPROACHING MENTAL HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AND ADDICTION ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE

This module introduces the procedure for how to approach someone in the workplace who may be living with mental health, behavioral health, or addiction challenges. Participants will gain an understanding of how to approach these situations in a workplace setting.

SESSION 6: TRAUMA AND SUICIDE

This module introduces several special topics concerning wellness in the workplace that do not fall into the mental health, behavioral health, or addiction categories, mainly focusing on trauma and suicide. This module will help participants gain an understanding of other circumstances that may impact workplace wellness and how to mitigate them. 

SESSION 7: WELLNESS

This module introduces the use of personal, organizational approaches for total wellness and how to use them in the workplace to support wellness of employees.

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