Workplace Mental Health for Managers Training Course

Name: Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing for Managers Training Course
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Equip managers to recognize concerns, hold supportive conversations, manage psychosocial risks, and coordinate workplace support.

Workplace Mental Health for Managers Training Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Milan, Zanzibar, London, Nice, Langkawi, Toronto and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Milan
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing for Managers Training Course is a one-week course for people managers, operational leaders, HR partners, wellbeing leads, and occupational health liaison teams who leave with a Manager Workplace Mental Health Action Portfolio. Participants connect supportive conversations, role boundaries, psychosocial risk management, reasonable adjustments, referral pathways, return-to-work support, and team wellbeing systems without diagnosing or delivering therapy. Agile Leaders Training Center presents workplace mental health for managers as a people-management discipline.

Who Should Attend

People-management functions responsible for team support, performance, workload, and attendance
Operational leadership functions responsible for work design, priorities, resources, and change
Human resources functions responsible for policy, adjustments, referrals, and case coordination
Employee wellbeing functions responsible for prevention, engagement, and support pathways
Occupational health liaison functions responsible for advice, return-to-work coordination, and review
Learning functions responsible for manager capability and consistent workplace practice

The course assumes participants already manage people, workplace processes, or employee-support systems and leaves out diagnosis, therapy, clinical case management, and legal advice.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries responsible for people management, workplace wellbeing, psychosocial risk, and employee support.

Human resources, people operations, and learning departments
Corporate, professional-services, and financial organizations
Healthcare, education, and social-service employers
Manufacturing, logistics, construction, and facilities operations
Government, nonprofit, and humanitarian organizations
Hospitality, retail, and customer-service businesses

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze workplace signs, job stressors, and psychosocial risk factors
Apply supportive conversation and active-listening techniques
Evaluate role boundaries, urgent risks, escalation, and referral options
Build reasonable adjustment and return-to-work support plans
Use workload, work-design, and team wellbeing assessment tools
Design manager practices that support mental health at work

Course Agenda

Day 1: Manager Role and Workplace Mental Health

Manager Observation and Concern Log
Mental Health at Work Factors Map
Manager Role Boundary and Responsibility Matrix
Confidentiality and Information-Sharing Decision Guide
Workplace Support and Referral Ecosystem Map

Day 2: Supportive Conversations and Response

Supportive Conversation Preparation Canvas
Open Question and Active-Listening Practice Model
Emotional Distress Response and Follow-Up Checklist
Urgent Risk Recognition and Escalation Card
Agreed Actions and Manager Follow-Up Record

Day 3: Psychosocial Risk and Work Design

ISO 45003:2021 Psychosocial Risk Context Map
HSE Demands-Control-Support-Relationships-Role-Change Review
Workload and Work-Pattern Risk Assessment
Team Consultation and Risk-Control Planning Tool
Psychosocial Control Effectiveness Review

Day 4: Adjustments, Return, and Team Wellbeing

Reasonable Adjustment Options Matrix
Individual Wellbeing Plan Template
Return-to-Work Support and Review Plan
Supportive Performance Conversation Framework
Team Wellbeing System and Manager Practice Scorecard

Day 5: Workplace Mental Health Management Practice

Exercise: Plan a Supportive Mental Health Conversation
Exercise: Assess Workload and Psychosocial Risk
Exercise: Build an Adjustment and Referral Pathway
Exercise: Design a Return-to-Work and Team Support Plan
Capstone Exercise: Manager Workplace Mental Health Action Portfolio

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities drawn from offices, healthcare, logistics, education, hospitality, and service operations.

Suggested activity: prepare and conduct a supportive conversation while maintaining manager role boundaries.
Suggested activity: assess demands, control, support, relationships, role, change, and workload within a team scenario.
Suggested activity: select adjustments, referral routes, escalation actions, and review points for an employee case.
Suggested activity: integrate prevention, individual support, return-to-work actions, and team controls in the capstone portfolio.

FAQs

Who suits workplace mental health training for managers, and what does it assume?

Workplace mental health training for managers suits experienced people leaders and support functions who already manage teams, performance, attendance, workload, change, or employee-support processes.

How does workplace mental health training for managers differ from clinical mental health training?

Workplace mental health training for managers develops observation, conversation, boundary, escalation, adjustment, referral, and work-design practices, while clinical mental health training prepares qualified practitioners for assessment, diagnosis, or treatment.

How should managers hold supportive mental health conversations?

Managers should prepare a private setting, use open and non-judgmental questions, listen actively, focus on work impact and support needs, agree actions, document appropriately, and arrange follow-up.

What are psychosocial risks in workplace mental health management?

Psychosocial risks arise from work design and management factors such as excessive demands, low control, inadequate support, poor relationships, role conflict, and poorly managed change.

How do reasonable adjustments support workplace mental health?

Reasonable adjustments adapt working arrangements, duties, communication, supervision, workload, schedules, or return-to-work steps to an employee's needs and the job context, with agreed review points.

Conclusion

The course connects early recognition, supportive conversations, role boundaries, urgent-risk response, psychosocial risk management, adjustments, referral, return to work, and team wellbeing. Participants take back a Manager Workplace Mental Health Action Portfolio. The portfolio changes management practice by making concerns, conversations, controls, support actions, responsibilities, referrals, and reviews explicit.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Milan	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Zanzibar	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
London	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Nice	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Toronto	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Manama	Week 49, 2026 6 – 10 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Nairobi	Week 50, 2026 13 – 17 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Dubai	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Amsterdam	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Montreux	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Dubai	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Tokyo	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Singapore	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Cairo	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Seoul	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Berlin	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewWorkplace Mental Health and Wellbeing for Managers Training Course is a one-week course for people managers, operational leaders, HR partners, wellbeing leads, and occupational health liaison teams who leave with a Manager Workplace Mental Health Action Portfolio. Participants connect supportive conversations, role boundaries, psychosocial risk ma…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

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Workplace Mental Health for Managers Training Course