1. Training & Development

Who: All Employees, Teams

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person, or Blended 

Why?

 1 in 3!  That is the number of people who have a diagnosable mental health issue every year.  The workplace is also cited as one of the highest stressors in an employee or manager's life.  While the problem may not have started there, the workplace environment is a substantial influence on our mental health, motivation, productivity and wellbeing overall.  And you can make changes that have incredibly positive impacts.

The opportunity:  PH&S education and practices are positively linked to organizational excellence, productivity, safety culture and ultimately influences mental health at work.  

The other side:  Without strategic understanding and attention, human factors and workplace conditions can contribute to risk of increased work-related stress, negative or unconscious impacts, burnout and the potential risk of gradual-onset psychological illness or injury.

Workplace-focused education in psychological health and safety (PH&S) for all employees supports a people-centred, inclusive culture, provides a shared language to help reduce stigma and normalizes conversations of mental health.

Psych health and safety is a shared workplace responsibility.  

We use the ISO 45003 (2021) global standard for Workplace Psychological Health & Safety, the 13 factors of the Canadian National Standard point and align them with science-based research for learning that employees can put to work in practical ways, as soon as they return to work. 

Expect increased flexibility, increased inclusion behaviours and more positive conversations of mental health at work. These are all factors essential in environments that require agility and change.  

Our services also can include individual and team coaching to support how new learning can become sustainable habits. 

Not required but recommended prior learning: Mental Health First Aid, The Working Mind or Not Myself Today.

Who: All Employees, Teams

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person or Blended

Why?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced we are in a worldwide workplace stress epidemic.  Country by country mental health statistics and workplace productivity, disability costs and absenteeism data supports the claim.  

If your organization is not currently seeing some of these employee or financial challenges, the best time is now for prevention and internal strength building.  Our training helps motivate and sustain positive change.   We build new abilities to effectively manage the factors influencing workplace stress.

Benefit: increased positive individual and team behaviours, a safer workday and increased individual attention on how they can contribute to lower stress individually and as part of the team. 

Contact us to learn about all of our programs. There are lots of ways to work together. 

Who: C-Suite, Senior Managers, Workplace Leaders

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person or Blended 

Why?

PH&S is positively linked to organizational excellence, productivity and performance, reduced workplace stressors, safety culture and positive mental health at work.

Creating informed and skilled leaders and managers is a challenge for organizations operating in a dynamic, diverse work environment. To change culture, you must change behaviour. To change behaviour you must build a foundation of psychological safety and trust and manage key workplace conditions that support work goals and thriving at work.  

We know that you need a different set of skills. Using the latest evidence-based research in an integrated experiential learning approach is what makes our work with you different than traditional manager and leadership training.  

We begin with the biggest influencer of positive change in mental health, motivation and performance, a strengths-based and self-authoring approach to learning. 

Result: increased positive individual awareness, and a psychologically-healthy and safe culture that reduces stress, increases productivity, engagement, achievement and joy at work. 

Contact us to learn more.  There are lots of ways to work together.

Not required but recommended prior learning: Mental Health First Aid, The Working Mind or Not Myself Today.

Who: Senior Managers, Human Resource Managers, Safety Officers, Team Supervisors

How: Instructor-Led

Live, Virtual or In-Person

Why: Understand the emerging changes that can support your organization effectively prevent and manage workplace conflict and risk.

Topics Include:

• An introduction to psychological safety in the workplace.
• The new legal minimums and obligations.
• The law and 3-Rs: employer and employee rights, roles and responsibilities.
• Civility and respect.
• Psychological support.
• Bullying and harassment.
• Fairness, equity and equality.
• Managing risk associated with the top workplace stressors.
• And...we can add in additional topic-focused modules of evidence-based workplace outcomes that move you beyond legal minimums to employee-centred culture, collaboration and high performance.

Who: Intact or Project-Created Teams

How: Instructor-Led

Live, Virtual or In-Person

Why: Some teams struggle to move into high-trust and a high state of collaboration.  They might freeze and calcify at any stage of forming, norming, storming and performing. To achieve high performance requires a specific set of evidence-based competencies and skills.  We can help ready your team for the mission critical work they are leading.

Workshop topics Include:

• An introduction to psychological safety in a team context.
• The neuroscience of team trust.
• Universal human needs that effect team dynamics.
• Bias vs values, each shape behaviour and decisions.
• Opportunity: skill development based on one or several relevant psychosocial risk factors:
• The skill and personal commitment to civil conversations.
• Uncomfortable conversations at work.
• Respect and cultural competencies.
• Psychological support.
• Leader communications.
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Extra meta skills; mindfulness, communications, conflict resolution, self-awareness, curiosity and effective listening.

Who:  Executive Management, Supervisors, Employee Teams, Association Leadership Teams

60 or 90 Minute Blasts of Distilled Learning

Live, Virtual or In-Person

1. Equity Before Inclusion Before Diversity: Breaking Down Bias 
2. Adult Development: You aren't Even Close to Done!
3. Team Flexibility: How to Prevent AND Lean Into Conflict.
4. Productivity Hacks to Short-circuit Old Habits.
5. Emotional and Social Intelligence: Boost Your Team Cohesion
6. The State of Psychological Safety in Your Industry.
7. Nudging Change, Safety and Quality.
8. Custom programs for workplace, workforce and organizational change.

Who: Frontline Supervisors and Managers

Module-Based

Virtual or In-Person

Inclusive Communications: Skills to Build & Sustain Team Cohesion & Psychological Safety

Skills-based training to help frontline supervisors create, demonstrate and model psychological safety, trust and empathy in their communications, relationships and interactions with their teams for greater employee inclusion, connection and commitment.

 Virtual or In-Person  

Thought-Provoking Boosts to Support Positive Change 

Leadership and Communications:

1. The Four People Who Show Up Everyday at Every Workplace: And How to Motivate Them.
2. Unlock Organizational Energy and Motivation.
3. Leading Through Team Pandemic Fatigue.
4. Stress Literacy: Resetting Your Brain and Body. 
5. Difficult Conversations: Soft Skills for a Hard World.
6. Leading and Nudging Team Culture during Uncertainty.
7. Coaching Adaptability and Psychological Flexibility.
8. Science Says: The World's Top 5 Supervisor Skills.

Health, Wellness & Safety:

1. Mental Health at Work: Debunking Myths About Workplace Joy and Stress.
2. An Introduction to Workplace Psychological Health & Safety Culture.
3. The Power of Inclusion on the Job.
4. How Uncertainty and Crisis Influences Behaviour at Work.

 The Lighter Side of Learning:

1. Don't Believe Everything You Think.
2. People are the Worst: Why We Struggle To Understand Others.
3. Workplace Trust is "Rocket Science".
4. What You Need to Know about Horrible Bosses.