1. Training & Development

Who: All Employees, Teams

How:  Instructor-Led

Module-Based

Live, Virtual, In-Person, or Blended 

Why?

Some stats say 1 in 5, some 1 in 4, some 1 in 3!  But the stats also say that we know those numbers are not the whole story because many mental health struggles and illnesses go unreported and untalked about.  Which ever of those numbers you settle on, that is an incredibly large number of people who experience a 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?

Organizations that integrate PH&S into their safety management systems, executive leadership team training, HR strategy and operations management have a strategic and organizational advantage. These actions are positively linked to organizational excellence, increased overall productivity, social connection, human performance, reduced workplace stress, safety culture and the ultimate purpose increased positive mental health and wellbeing at work.

Leadership and learning culture are two proven critical success factors in psych health and safety program success. 

The 13 FACTORS Learning and Development Program is built to support your organization's efforts to create a psychologically healthy and safety-focused workplace culture and climate.

We understand how people learn and adapt to change. We understand the challenges, constraints and opportunities within diverse, growing and dynamic market conditions and work environments. And we understand organizational excellence, how to elevate and integrate learning culture and how to build momentum in a learning environment.  

An organization at any stage of integration of a psychological health and safety priority requires a specific set of core competencies, management practices, knowledge and skills.  

We have used the latest evidence-based research in inclusive, conscious leadership and psych health and safety management to create the foundation of our program.  We finalize it by building in your unique context and needs.  

We believe the best team learning happens when the facilitator is one part subject matter expert and one part group coach, guiding and leveraging the life experience participants bring to the classroom.

 The results:  growth in individual self-awareness, new considerations for team functioning and leading a learning culture, psychological flexibility, increased productivity and engagement, and skills and abilities to hold difficult conversations and support peers and team members to grow even in stressful circumstances.  Our goal is to support your team experience improved mental health and create the space for more joy at work for themselves and the teams they lead. 

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, Supervisors, Managers

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 psychological safety and high performance requires a specific set of evidence-based communications skills and management behaviour competencies and skills.  

Workshop topics include:

• An introduction to psychological health and safety, trauma-informed conversations, mental health at work.
• The neuroscience of trust.
• Universal human needs for thriving at work.
• Factors that influence communication effectiveness including what we observe and how we interpret things in conversation.
• How to disagree constructively.
• The nature of civil conversations, respect and cultural competency.
• Opportunity: practice communications skills in varied scenarios from realworld situations and/or built based on some of the unique challenges your team is managing.
• How to efffectively provide psychological support when a team member is struggling.
• Extra meta skills; mindfulness, 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. Inclusive Communications.
2. Equity Before Inclusion: Breaking Down Defenses and Bias.
3. Work Leader Development: You aren't Even Close to Done!
4. Team Flexibility: How to Prevent AND Lean Into Constructive Conflict.
5. Productivity Boosts to Short-circuit Old Management Habits.
6. The New Emotional and Social Intelligence in the Workplace.
7. The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety and Trust.
8. Nudging Theory Applied to Workplace Culture and Positive Change.
9. Custom programs grounded in the competencies and skills proven to support psychological health and safety culture, learning culture, inclusion and social connection and human and organizational performance.

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.