Certificate in Workplace Mental Wellbeing – Lead & Learn

HRDCorp Approved

Certificate in Workplace Mental Wellbeing – Lead & Learn

Course Description & Justification

Managers, supervisors and staff play a crucial role in creating a workplace that enhances mental health wellbeing, as well as supporting staff who live with mental health challenges. “Workplace Mental Health and Well-being: Lead and Learn” is a structured learning path. The learning is based on micro-learning modules, videos from subject matter experts, storytelling and scenario-based learning. Course participants will be able to consolidate takeaways through reflective practices and interaction with other participants via discussion forums, and other activities.

The 4 day (28 hours) program will include a confidential Distress, Anxiety and Stress. Survey, a structured Psychological First Aid at Work program that teaches managers, supervisors and employees how to notice and support employees who may be experiencing a mental health concern or crisis in a work environment and connect them to available resources.

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be able to: adopt and apply strategies to thrive and enhance your personal well-being, explain the importance of mental health and well-being in the workplace and your role as a manager, supervisor or colleague in fostering a supportive environment, advocate for stigma reduction and take concrete actions to reduce the stigma associated with mental health problems in the workplace and develop skills and confidence to support a colleague who is experiencing poor mental health in the workplace. Program will be modulated by Counsellors registered with Lembaga Kaunselor Malaysia.

Course Details

Course Duration: 4 days (28 hours)
Target Group: All levels – Middle & Senior Management
Training Mode: Classroom Face to Face
Course Fee: RM 3950 (HRDC Approved & Claimable)

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Course Dates

HRDCorp Approved.

Certification

The International Professional Managers Association is an International Examining, Licensing and Regulatory Professional body formed for the purpose of providing practicing managers with the opportunity to participate and to be part of the process of improving managerial performance and effectiveness in all areas of business, industry and public administration.

On successful completion of attending all the training modules, trainees will receive a Certificate of Achievement awarded with the IPMA Certification. Search Training Center Sdn Bhd is an Approved and Accredited Teaching and Examination Center of the International Professional Managers Association

HRDC Claimable

Module 1

Why does it matter - Mental Well being

Poor mental health is one of the biggest issues in the workplace today, causing over 70 million working days to be lost each year..

This includes everything from the most commonly experienced symptoms of stress and anxiety, right through to more complex mental health conditions, such as depression, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. As well as having a huge impact on individual employees, poor mental health has severe repercussions for employers – including increased staff turnover, sickness absence due to debilitating depression, burnout and exhaustion, decreased motivation and lost productivity.

Course Objective

This module looks at how to encourage good mental health – by safeguarding staff wellbeing, addressing problems before they become severe, and supporting staff when issues do emerge.

This is not about becoming an expert in mental health; it’s about spotting the signs that something might be wrong. It will signpost the right support and resources, and offer suggestions for putting strategies in place to support good mental health.
All this will help empower supervisor, manager and colleagues managers to do the same.

Learning Outcomes

Understand why good mental health matters in the workplace.

  • Know the role that you, supervisors and your managers can play in spotting and handling mental health issues at work.
  • Be aware of medium to long-term actions for improving mental health in the workplace and how to build awareness of them.
Duration

Day 1

  • 4 Hours
  • 9am-1.00pm

Module 2

Depression, Anxiety, Stress Survey

Anxiety and depression are feelings that are not easily detectable or identifiable. Some people are able to mask it with smiles, while others don’t even know that they have it. We often overlook mental health because of how other people might look at us. However, the global pandemic has challenged our mental fortitude in ways we never anticipate. As a result, our society is becoming more aware of how mental health affects our daily lives and functionality. The DASS It is one tool you can use to help evaluate your state of mind.

Course Objectives

Participants will be trained to access and understand how this self-report instrument and its accuracy. It helps to measure current state of mind over the past 2 weeks. Understanding how to determine your total score, as well as your score for each emotion. Participants will be exposed and better understand a quantitative measure of distress along the 3 axes of depression, anxiety1 and stress2.

Learning Outcomes
  • The principal value of the survey is to clarify the locus of emotional disturbance, as part of the broader task of non-clinical assessment.
  • It helps assess the severity of the core symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
Duration

Day 1

  • 3 Hours
  • 2pm -5.00pm

Module 3

Early intervention: spotting the signs of stress, distres, and mental ill health

There are many reasons why mental health has become such a huge issue in the workplace today, but one factor is that many cases go unrecognised until they become severe. Whilst many employers are now primed to spot signs of physical illness, mental health problems can be more difficult to identify.

Course Objective

No matter how well employees are managed, some people will experience mental health problems in the workplace. Spotting the signs of stress or mental ill health at an early stage means line leaders, supervisors, colleagues and managers can nip problems in the bud before they escalate into a crisis or sickness absence and give ideas of what to look out for. Workplace triggers – Everyone has mental health and, like physical health, it fluctuates along a spectrum from good to poor. Work can have a huge impact – it can promote well-being or trigger problems. Consequently, the causes of unmanageable stress and mental health problems are often complex. 70% of employee mental health problems are either directly caused by work or by a combination of work and home.

Learning Outcomes

A key learning objective is spotting the signs, being alert to the potential workplace triggers for distress, such as:

  • long hours and no breaks
  • unrealistic expectations or deadlines,
  • poor working environment
  • unmanageable workloads or lack of control over work
  • negative relationships or poor communication
  • workplace culture or lack of management support
  • job insecurity or change management
  • high-risk roles
  • lone working.
Duration

Day 2

  • 4 hours
  • 9am – 1.00pm

Module 4

Prevention: Keeping People Well & Managing Stress and Anxiety at the workplace

It’s important to safeguard the mental health of your workforce by creating an open and caring culture that makes staff feel supported and looked after.

Course Objective

Some of the costs associated with mental ill health at work occur because undetected problems are left unchecked and spiral into a crisis.
Good communication and people management skills go a long way to preventing stress and mental health problems among employees – often it’s about a common-sense approach.
 Nurturing by treating your people well, promoting their health and well-being and also by being there to support them when things get them down. Helping people to deal with the pressures in their lives is one of the best investments an employer can make.

Learning Outcomes

Positive management culture from top to bottom.

  • Support & strategic leadership from the top will create organisational cultures where management styles based on openness and mutual respect can flourish.
  • Getting a clear understanding of the link between the strategic objectives of their or team objectives and their day-to-day people management in areas such as: communication and consultation; training and development; performance and absence (a workplace pressure, stress or conflict.)
Duration

Day 2

  • 3 hours
  • 2pm to 5pm

Module 5

Mental health first aid (MHFA) at Workplace

Mental health first aid is simply the mental health equivalent to physical health first aid. Just like physical first aid, mental health first aid courses don’t teach to diagnose or treat. Instead, they teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of someone potentially suffering from mental health. They’re also taught how to offer initial support until appropriate and professional help is received.

Course Objective

The 7 hour Mental Wellbeing Fitsy Aider program is designed to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and raise awareness. It also provides individuals with relevant knowledge and skills to help people in the workplace suffering from Mental Health issues. It covers a range of mental health topics from anxiety and depression and becoming a Mental Wellbeing Custodian ay the workplace. It covers

  • Noticing signs and symptoms of substance use and mental health challenges.
  • Navigating conversations about mental health
  • Knowing that recovery is possible – and how to support it.
  • Tackling mental health stigma in the workplace.
  • Principles of safety and privacy.
  • Building resilience and strategies to alleviate burnout.
  • Reinforcing relevant Employee Resource Groups, employee benefits and HR initiatives.
Learning Outcomes
  • Participants will equip themselves with the understanding and knowledge to access for risk of harm.
  • Listen non judgmentally, give reassurance, information & resource, encourage appropriate professional help and encourage self-help and other support strategies.
Duration

Day 3

  • 7 hours9.am – 5pm
  • (Break – 1pm to 2pm)

Module 6

Building your resilience at workplace and beyond

Understand the concept of resilience and how it can help you manage stress and deal with setbacks. Discover how to build and strengthen your personal resilience and dive deeper into your individual stress response for more effective stress-management strategies.

Course Objective

Resilience is an important life skill which can help you to handle adversity and thrive in any environment. 

This module will provide you with strategies and techniques to help you become a more resilient individual.    

Learning Outcomes
  • Understand more about resilience and the foundations that support it
  • Understand the difference between stress and pressure
  • Understand how to identify stress in yourself and others
  • Have a better understanding of your own stressors and the causes
  • Learn strategies which will boost your personal resilience
Duration

Day 4

  • 2 Hours
  • 9am to 11am

Module 7

Managing Mental Stediness

Using the Ikigai concept -reason for being – the module dive into the definition of ikigai and the philosophy behind it. Ikigai also resonates with Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy’s emphasis on pursuing activities that produce enjoyment and a sense of mastery, specifically as a way to alleviate depressive disorder.

Course Objective

What you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, what you can get paid for- All 4 areas blend into each other, forming the basis of a person’s IKIGAI.

Setting SMART goals is a method that is used to help people define and implement intentions.

Learning Outcomes
  • Participants will be skewed to feel fulfilled in most areas of their life – either through their work or personal life.
  • This module will help participants to find a reason to look forward to the future, even if you are unhappy with the current environment.
  • The participants will understand why SMART goals are important – guidance & realistic direction in goal setting, get motivated and achieve better results in achieving lasting change.
Duration

Day 4

  • 2 Hours
  • 11am to 1pm

Module 8

Its ok not to be ok

Not only is it okay to not feel ‘okay,’ it is essential. An abnormal emotional response to an abnormal situation IS normal. When we think we might lose something we care about, that’s sad. When we don’t know what to expect next, that’s scary. We should let ourselves, and other people in our lives, feel these things as they come up — which may be more than usual right now

Course Objective
  • Each person has their own unique story.
  • The need to face your trauma are to overcome it.
  • Healing takes time.
  • No one should be treated differently for being different.
Learning Outcomes
  • By overdoing positive affirmations, we may be invalidating our or others’ feelings and harming them when they are already in a vulnerable state.
  • The best way to deal with negative emotions is to let yourself feel the emotions you’re feeling and let them pass, not push them under the rug.
Duration

Day 4

  • 3 Hours
  • 2pm to 5pm

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Mental Wellbeing at the Workplace

Program conducted by
Mind Matters Solutions

Dr. Siva Poobalasingam

MD
President, Malaysian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Diplomate of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Country Representative for the International Council of Integrative Medicine and the Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance.
Member, National Coalition of Mental Wellbeing
25 years in clinical experience in Lifestyle & Wellness Medicine

Jin Tsen Siew

MBA , M.Couns
BASS (Australian College of Applied Phycology)
Mentor, Trainer & Counsellor
17 years in mentoring & counselling

Dr. Vinogiri KS

BSc, MSc, Doctorate in Philosophy
Public Health Consultant
Member, National Coalition on Mental Wellbeing
5 years in Counselling

Malini Rama

BA Education, M.Couns
Resident Counsellor – National Cancer Society of Malaysia
Certified HRDF Trainer
8 years in Counselling

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