Psychological Health & Safety
​Certificate for People Leaders

Overview

Live, interactive, virtual sessions with an MWH Senior PH&S Specialist. 20 hours (5 x 4-hour modules).

Learning Objective

To provide people leaders with skills to champion workplace psychological health and safety, improve civility and respect, and manage employee mental health issues. Participants will also work to enhance their own emotional intelligence, resilience, and leadership

Module 1 - Champion Psychological Health & Safety

This 4-hour module covers the current realities of mental health in Canada and equips participants to defend the need to improve workplace psychological health and safety. They’ll come away with a better understanding of: the characteristics and benefits of a psychologically safe and healthy workplace; the CSA’s National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace; the legal, business and health imperatives; and the 13 psychosocial factors. They’ll also explore their role as managers and people leaders and some of the barriers and challenges they might face along the way.
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Module 2 - Be a Psychologically Safe Leader

The CSA’s National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace underscores the imperative organizations have to equip their people leaders with the skills to engage in psychologically safe leadership. In this 4-hour module, participants learn about what psychologically safe leadership is and conduct a self-assessment of strengths and areas for improvement using the Psychologically Safe Leadership Assessment. They’ll come away with concrete ideas to enhance their leadership across five core domains: communication and collaboration; social intelligence; problem solving and conflict management; security and safety; and fairness and integrity.

Module 3 - Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence & Resilience

Although mental health is increasingly recognized as a key component of overall health, it receives less attention than merited. In this 4-hour module, participants learn how to enhance their psychological health, wellness and resilience, given the myriad of demands they face. They’ll break down stress and how to approach it in a way that allows them to thrive, and explore the four components of emotional intelligence. Finally, they’ll gain personal insight by completing the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment and outlining a behavioural change plan to target stressors.

Module 4 - Managing Workplace Mental Health Issues
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There’s a high likelihood that a team member is experiencing, or will experience, a mental health issue. This 4-hour module provides an overview of challenges that arise when managing psychological health issues at work. Participants learn about the most common mental health disorders and how they impact work function. They’ll also learn to identify signs that an employee is struggling and come away with practical, evidence-based strategies, with a focus on responding to a distressed employee, and managing workplace absences and accommodations.

Module 5 - Foster a Civil & Respectful Workplace
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Civility and respect is one of the 13 psychosocial factors encompassed in the National Standard. It is foundational to good psychological health and safety and one that is integral to the success of all other factors. In this 4-hour module, participants explore what civility and respect entail. They’ll learn how to recognize and remove bias, engage in healthy communication, and handle difficult situations. Finally, participants come away with practical steps to improve civility and respect that leads to overall psychological health and safety for their team.

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"While at first it seems like it's a broad and complex topic, the course content and the teacher did an excellent job giving structure to the topic and providing pragmatic advice."

1:1 Coaching for
​People Leaders

Looking for 1:1 training instead?

Our Psychological Health & Safety (PH&S) Clinic ​​offers a range of outcome-focused coaching solutions for Executives and People Leaders focused on assessment and skills building in Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Psychologically Safe Leadership (PSL).

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