Strategy Development

A strategic approach to addressing and supporting the mental health of your workforce is critical for long-term success. While many organizations start and end with flashy communication campaigns and “lunch and learn” sessions for their teams, we know that there’s more to it than that.

An effective mental health strategy considers policies, programs, benefits, training, and much more. It should touch all pieces of your business and align with your existing objectives or key performance indicators. Most importantly, it should include concrete metrics that can show you if you’re headed in the right direction and demonstrate return on investment.

We can help by crafting a multi-year strategy to address mental health that is tailored to your organization, based on industry best-practices, and focused on achieving the results that are most important to your business including reduced absenteeism, increased engagement, higher retention, and decreased disability costs just to name a few.

Risk Assessment

We often hear of a “gap” between decision-makers and frontline employees, which can result in business decisions that have a negative impact on employee well-being. 

Risk assessment is about getting the inside scoop from your employees on what’s working well and what needs to change when it comes to unnecessary stress at work. Effective risk assessments ask the right questions, use practical methods, and take into account each department's unique context. It often looks like surveys, interviews, or focus groups – and at its core, is all about hearing employee voices and collaborating to find solutions.

We can guide you through the process, collect and analyze data with a neutral third-party perspective, share insights, and brainstorm solutions with your teams. Let us help you "mind the gap" by providing tangible, realistic recommendations that will truly benefit your people and move the dial on workplace well-being.

Executive Alignment

Leaders set the cultural tone for any organization. How they engage with the issue of mental health is a key influence on the psychological health and safety of their teams and a crucial element of organizational culture.

The problem? Most leaders don’t know how extensive the benefits of a psychologically health organization are, or how to approach the topic in a way that is accessible, practical, and aligned with their business objectives.

We can help by providing individual or group education focused on specific behaviours that will enable leaders to role model healthy work practices, support employees who are struggling, open up meaningful conversations about mental health, and create a culture of care within your organization.

We even have a turn-key Executive Immersion Series that can educate and empower an executive team to take action with confidence.

Management Training

Managers and supervisors have a direct impact on the mental health of your workforce. They are the first ones to notice when someone is struggling and the first place employees will go for support.

It’s important for managers to know what to look for and how to respond in way that is authentic, compassionate, and in keeping with their role in the workplace. This is a difficult balance to strike, considering many managers don’t have the requisite skills to intelligently manage the “people” side of the business, by no fault of their own.

With years of experience educating managers across all industry sectors, we can provide high-impact skill development sessions that will give them the tools and concrete strategies they need to feel confident managing mental health issues within their teams and balancing the need to be supportive with the reality of getting the job done.

Our Manager Mental Health Training Series covers all the basics from proactive support to illness management.

Our experience at work is heavily influenced by the people we work closely with - our team. But often teams don’t work as well as they could, and leaders aren’t sure how to fix it.

We work with teams to optimize their ability to work together by focusing on psychological safety and engagement.

In psychologically safe teams, people feel able to share ideas, raise concerns, challenge the status quo, and have difficult conversations. Research demonstrates that psychological safety in a team supports overall mental health and well-being at work.

Engaged teams are also more likely to experience better mental health. We help teams measure engagement and identify actionable ways leaders can cultivate engagement in their teams every day.

Get started with our Psychological Safety Scan and Team Debrief!

Employees have questions. Do you have the answers?

We design and deliver engaging, informative, and educational experiences for employees. By using the latest evidence and tapping into the lived experience of recovery from mental health issues, we can give your employees the answers they need from trustworthy, credible, and relatable sources.

Common questions include:

• How do I take care of my mental health?

• How can I best support a loved one or co-worker?

• Where can I go for help?

• How can I maintain a healthy work-life balance?

You can take a look at some examples of our employee education sessions here.

Need to make an impact?

We can deliver compelling narratives that highlight the importance of mental health for your workforce. Using a blend of personal experience and evidence-based information, we can craft a message that will hit home with any audience.

Whether it’s a town-hall, conference, or CEO roundtable, we can work with you to develop an deliver an accessible, engaging, and entertaining talk that will have our audience leaving with practical takeaways, high-quality information, and the inspiration they need to start making real change in their workplace.

Got a problem? We love those.

If what you’ve read above doesn’t quite hit the mark, don’t be afraid to contact us anyway. We can customize an engagement to meet your needs, regardless of where you’re at in your efforts to support the mental health of your workforce.

Maybe you’re not sure where to start or where to go next.

Perhaps you’ve tried, failed, and need some extra support.

We thrive on meeting clients where they’re at and rolling up our sleeves. With our expertise and extensive industry network, we can guarantee that there’s no problem too complex for us to help you with.