As a consultant or trainer in the field of workplace mental health, leadership or psychological safety, you want to ensure that what you offer achieves its intended outcomes. We have many free evidence-based resources that you can use in your role:
- Workshop materials including facilitator guides, slides and participant handouts
- Mini eLearning modules you can use on their own or as part of a larger learning program that you develop
- Assessments to measure psychological health and safety, leadership, team function, emotional intelligence, burnout, and more
- Email tips on work-life balance, leadership and mental health awareness that you can subscribe to and share with your clients or participants, with your own commentary
If you find it hard to believe that all of these resources are free for you to use in your business or practice, please read Yes, these resources really are free!
Whether you are an independent professional or a trainer/ facilitator for a large organization, continual skill development while protecting your psychological health and safety is the best way support your success. These resources can help with that:
- Independent professionals – tips and strategies for those who are self-employed, work from home or remotely or often work in isolation
- Emotional intelligence assessment – helps your reflect on and improve your ability to recognize and respond to the emotions of yourself and others
As a consultant, trainer or facilitator working to enhance psychological health and safety at work, you want to provide evidence-based content and an engaging curriculum. Workplace Strategies for Mental Health has a broad range of free resources you can use or adapt, depending on the needs of your clients.
Workshop materials
We provide a range of workshop topics and materials available for you to use as-is or adapt to suit you and/or your clients’ needs. Each workshop set includes a facilitator guide, participant handout and slide presentation.
Workshops topics include:
For a general audience of employees
- Psychologically safe interactions. Participants learn how behaviours might be interpreted as bullying, regardless of intent.
- Building resilience. Engage participants in a journey of self-discovery while they create a plan to develop healthy coping strategies for whatever life throws at them.
- Emotional intelligence. Participants learn about their own emotional triggers, the functions of emotions and how to respond more effectively to the emotions of others.
- Personal stress. Name, claim and reframe is an approach to develop the skills to identify and manage responses to everyday stressors.
- Implicit bias. Facilitate an open discussion about how to identify implicit bias and promote inclusivity so all employees can thrive and succeed.
- Learning to recharge. Engage participants in activities that can help energize, calm the mind and relax the body. These activities allow individuals to consider what works best for them.
For leaders
- Resolving conflict. Help leaders to learn a psychologically safer way to resolve conflict.
- Performance management. Teach leaders a supportive approach to improving employee task performance that is both practical and effective.
- Building trust. Creates a framework for leaders to have a conversation with an employee who may be struggling, in a way that builds trust and develops solutions. Includes a series of short videos you can use separately or as a part of a larger program.
- Motivating the powers that be. Help participants gain tools and knowledge to make it easier for decision-makers to say yes to psychological health and safety at work.
For teams
- Psychosocial factor series. Two workshops are available on each of the psychosocial factors named in the National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. One is to be facilitated with work teams, and the other is to be facilitated with policy and decision-makers.
- Leveraging team wisdom. Help participants connect and work together to address obstacles and learn from each other.
Facilitating open discussion, especially when it involves sensitive topics, can be tricky. Use these facilitation tips to help guide the way.
Learn more about how you can make the most of free workshops | YouTube video available on the Workplace Strategies for Mental Health website with your clients.
eLearning modules
Sometimes we need to learn a new skill in a hurry. To help you with this, we’ve taken some of our most popular and practical skills and broken them down into eLearning modules that take 10 minutes or less to complete. They also all include a short video and infographic. We’re adding new topics regularly. For a full list, see Microlearning modules.
Some microlearning topics include:
- Avoid blame and shame
- Before you say no
- Communicating with clarity
- Distinguish acknowledgement from agreement
- Getting employee commitment for leaders
- Listen to understand
- Use appreciative inquiry
Assessments
These evidence-informed assessments can be administered by you as part of a strategy for improvement. They also could simply be assigned to your clients or participants to complete and reflect on as part of a broader training program.
Each free assessment will generate an individual report that includes links to relevant resources and tools for improvement.
We have assessments for:
Burnout
Determine the risk of burnout for an individual | PDF as well as the factors that increase the risk of burnout in an organization | PDF.
Emotional intelligence
The Emotional intelligence self-assessment helps improve self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management.
Psychological health and safety
Guarding Minds at Work is a suite of tools including an employee survey that assesses psychosocial factors which are within the influence and responsibility of the organization. It does not gather personal medical information. The results can help you recommend changes to policies and procedures in terms of the impact they can have on psychological health and safety.
Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment is an online survey that can be used in two different ways. The first is as a self-assessment where a leader responds to statements on the frequency in which they engage in strategies known to support the psychological health and safety of employees. The second is as an optional survey for employees to assess their leader on the same measures. You can choose to administer these surveys for all leaders, or leaders can individually use this resource as a self-assessment.
Psychologically Safe Team Assessment goes beyond leadership to measure how team members feel about how they interact with and work with each other, as well as their sense of inclusion. In other words, it's not just up to the leader; everyone on the team has a role in making the team a safe and inclusive work environment.
Email tips
We offer free subscriptions to weekly emails around a range of helpful topics. You can subscribe for your own learning and development, and you could also choose to forward these on to your clients or participants as an added value. You can also modify the content to add in your own comments, additional resources or promotional information. The only requirement is that you credit the source.
You can subscribe to any or all of these email subscriptions.
Choose from these subscription topics:
- News from Workplace Strategies – Be among the first to hear about new resources and events
- Work-life balance tips – Weekly emails about health, work and well-being
- Mental Health Awareness – Emails with videos and practical information that can help you better understand the experience of mental health issues at work. This subscription can be part of a broader mental health awareness campaign or a free option that can stand on its own.
- Psychologically Safe Leader – Practical information and tips for leaders who want to lead in a way that supports and protects psychological health and safety for themselves and their team members.
We have many more resources not highlighted here. If you’re looking for something in particular, please contact us and we will help you to find it.