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Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for managers.

'Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for managers' is a 2-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training in mental health and related areas throughout the UK and Ireland.

It is the only workplace mental health training that is Delegate–Accredited and uniquely combines built-in APT Registration with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online.

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Executive Summary:

This course is for managers and directors and focuses on how to manage in a way that generates good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and doing so in a realistic way that works well for everybody.

Many people spend more waking hours at work than they spend anywhere else, so it is imperative that we do our best to get matters right in the workplace.

Who should attend?

Managers and Directors committed to creating a workplace that engenders peak wellbeing.

The course covers a great deal:

Day 1:

• Developing a clear management philosophy: The RAID® Philosophy.
• How to develop good relationships: the 3 key factors, in order.
• Key Principle: Empower, and boost self-efficacy.
• Key Principle: Notice good things more than not so good things.
• Key Principle: Recognise and remove irritants.
• Key Principle: Apply these principles to yourself.
• Key Principle: Know how to ask people to do things.
• Key Principle: Know how to motivate the team.
• Key Principle: Use Feedback, and use it skilfully. Why give negative feedback? Why give positive feedback?
• Major Exercise: Making an action plan and using The Checklist.

Day 2: Focusing directly on mental health.

• The 5 major factors involved in mental health and wellbeing.
• Putting Square pegs in Square holes.
• Breaking out of the punishment cycle.
• Delegating skilfully and supportively.
• Biological factors, including: Sleep, Diet, Mood-altering substances, Exercise and Relaxation.
• Talking about emotions: is it a good idea?
• If not, what can we do?
• Social factors, including: when people actively dislike each other; people having no real friends at work; ongoing arguments and feuds at work; changes in role or workplace.
• Thinking style: Everything else can be pretty much perfect, and yet people can still spoil it for themselves by taking a gloomy or anxious perspective. So what then?
• Appraisal Interviews
• Making an action plan and using the Checklist.
• Quiz.
  
  

What you receive.

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT Registration Level 1, and receive a certificate to this effect. The registration gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT Registration to Level 2 (note, the exam is inbuilt into the 'online anytime' version of the course). 

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam. 

APT Registration Levels are given value by the fact that over 150,000 people have attended APT training. See APT Registration for full details.

Booking is easy... choose your favourite option: Option 1: Online Anytime course: A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time you like – right now if you want. Price: £200 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, and Level 2 APT Registration by completing the course and inbuilt exam. For organisations booking training for teams, invoices can be provided for multiple places, with delegate names added later if preferred. Managers can also monitor their team’s progress through the training.  Guarantee If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back! If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team! (Valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned.) Buy Now (access immediately)  Request Invoice (access when paid) Top of page Option 2: Exclusive course for your organisation: We can bring the course and tutor to you and your organisation, for a group of up to 15 people. Choose online via Zoom or Teams (£3,665 plus VAT, extra delegates £226 plus VAT per person), or Face-to-Face in the room (£5,490 plus VAT, extra delegates: £340 plus VAT per person). Commissioning an exclusive course also opens up the possibility of APT Exclusive Membership. To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, email office@apt.ac, or click the button:  Book Exclusive Course  Explore Exclusive Membership Top of page

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Reviews.

APT prides itself on the written feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments our Mental Health Awareness courses have received.

"Was extremely impressed with the workshop and what was included, it gave me a better understanding about mental health. The tutor was exceptional and always expanded on his points! Amazing!"

"Presented in a brilliant way and just at the right pace. The course gave me a fantastic grounding of both mental health and mental illness."

"I found the whole exercise engrossing and enlightening. It was presented excellently and I came away feeling as though I have learnt something."

"A fascinating and very useful course. Very well delivered, extremely engaging. Has given me a real insight and was taught in such a way that I feel better equipped for the future."