Manager Training #1: Managing for Mental Health in the Workplace: Provides managers with skills to discuss mental health challenges with employees in a supportive way while respecting professional boundaries and maintaining their own mental well-being. Reviews common mental health challenges in the workplace, tips taking care of your own mental health as a manager, a high-level overview of the ADA, and how to approach an employee if you think they may be having a mental health challenge and navigate them towards resources.  

Manager Training #2: Balancing Compassion and Accountability in the Workplace: Builds on the topics discussed in Managing for Mental Health in the Modern Workplace training to describe elements of creating a performance management system that facilitates accountability for all employees while providing support for employees who may be struggling. It also provides concrete tips for co-developing a performance improvement plan in a compassionate way that balances the emotional health of the employee with the needs of the organization.  

Building Resilience in the Workplace: Provides a broad overview of mental health in the workplace with a focus on the importance of developing resilience as a skill in response to challenges and the opportunity for post-traumatic growth. Describes resilience as a dynamic process and reviews evidence-based approaches to develop resilience.  

Under Pressure: Identifying and Managing our Stress Responses: Teaches employees how to cultivate self-awareness to identify and manage unhealthy coping mechanisms in response to stress and replace them with healthier coping strategies.  

Accentuate the Positive: Cultivating Positive Emotions: Helps employees increase their experience of positive emotions by teaching realistic optimism, gratitude practices, and encouraging flexible thinking to create space to adapt and learn from challenges.  

Restore and Revitalize: Reframing our Priorities: Helps employees examine their work and personal priorities to identify strengths, increase skills in balancing competing priorities, and make time for activities that promote recovery.  

Supporting Employees Experiencing Burnout in the Workplace: Provides an overview of burnout, how it differs from stress and other mental illnesses, and identifies the six main causes of burnout in the workplace. Discusses strategies to mitigate the causes of burnout and help people recover from burnout.  

Caregivers in the Workplace: Provides evidence-based strategies for how caregivers can thrive in the workplace. Reviews individual tools to cope with stress, as well as relational tools to connect with colleagues and support loved ones. Caregiving for a family member, friend, or colleague is rewarding yet challenging, and workplace stressors compound these difficulties. Stress affects caregivers’ physical and mental health, yet many caregivers do not share this in the workplace.  

Coping with Trauma: Provides an overview of the different trauma types and impact of the cascade of traumas over the last several years on the workplace. Discusses resilience and the importance of cultivating awareness to recognize how we are coping. Provides emotion and solution-based coping strategies employees can use to take care of their own mental health while balancing processing the trauma of the outside world while at work.