Training course

Managing Employee Mental Well-being - Managing Stress in Others

The aim of this course is to identify stress in self and others and what we can do to manage this that promotes a positive health and wellbeing culture at work.

  • 1 Day
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Course Objectives

  • Recognise the signs, symptoms and causes of stress for individuals
  • Identify ways to reduce stress
  • Identify strategies to prevent reactive behaviour and remain calm under pressure
  • Practice relaxation techniques to improve health and concentration levels
  • Identify strategies to prevent reactive behaviour and remain calm under pressure
  • Help employees to reduce their stress levels and identify ways of improving resilience to enhance team performance

Included

  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course content Back to top

  1. Introductions
    Who we are and our objectives
    Welcome and Introductions
    Psychological safety in today’s session and for working with your employees
  2. Understanding and recognising stress and mental wellbeing in others
    Defining Stress
    Understanding Mental Wellbeing
  3. Stress in the workplace
    Understanding and recognising stress
    Factors that create stress and impact our wellbeing
    Managing stress in our employees
    Conflict at work and how this impacts our stress levels
  4. Leadership and wellbeing
    The role of an effective leader in managing stress and mental wellbeing
    Activity - introducing the wellbeing continuum
    Conversation skills practice
    5 Steps to managing stress
    Self-care and wellbeing
    Skills of an effective leader / manager in managing wellbeing and stress levels
  5. Skills practice
    A stress / wellbeing conversation using the key skills of an effective leader
    Video
  6. The power of reflection
    The role of the leader in supporting wellbeing at work and reducing stress for colleagues
    Shared their personal key learning points from today
    Created their personal action plan
  7. Q&A and close
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Public dates and prices Back to top

Prices are per delegate and exclude VAT.

  • Tuesday 1 December 2026

    Newcastle 9:30–16:30

    £475+ VAT

Can't make these dates? Ask about a private course on a date that suits you.

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.
  • Public Scheduled Fixed course content, fixed date, fixed location, fixed length, multiple organisations - All you need to do is choose which course you would like to attend and contact us to book!
  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.

What delegates say Back to top

“This course will change the way we format and present data in the department, saving us time and giving us a much better overview of our workload, budgets, and monthly stats.”
G.B., The Labour Party, Excel Level 3

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“Isolating my key tasks and how to field some of the distractions.”
V.W., North East Business Innovation Centre, Time Management
“Have had quite a bit of clerking and minuting experience previously but this was a good all around refresher of key skills, things to think about and new ways of working when it comes to minuting”
I.T., Hmpps, Minute Taking
“All very interesting and formative”
K.M., Hmp Gartree, Microsoft Power BI Desktop

What were the most useful aspects of the course

“Practical work recommendations that can be applied in the office.”
M.S., Great North Air Ambulance Service, Time Management
“The whole course in general was very good”
S.M., Bilfinger Uk, PowerPoint Essentials

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“I made a lot of notes based on the useful tips the trainer shared, it will certainly assist with improving sharing schedules with clients, especially where client driven delays are experienced.”
L.A., Tekmar, Microsoft Project Essentials
“Was good that the trainer recognised how I felt and took that on board and was great with it”
R.S., Newcastle City Council, Train the Trainer

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0191 377 8377
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