Performance & Wellbeing Training For Leaders

Performance & Psychological Wellbeing: What Every CEO and Leader Needs to Know

Less than 20% of the UK population answer “Yes” to all of the following questions:

• Are you making the most of your abilities?
• Are you coping with the normal stresses of life?
• Are you working productively and effectively?
• Are you able to contribute to your community?

Those who answer ‘yes’, have psychological wellbeing, they thrive. Those who answer ‘no’, do not.

How would your staff respond? What impact would ‘no answers’ have on their; work performance and relationships, lives and health, and our society?

With the amount of time spent at work, everyday work experiences play a key role in how staffs’ psychological wellbeing improves or worsens. This introductory workshop aims to help every CEO and leader begin the conscious process of improving their staffs’ psychological wellbeing, and therefore, performance.

Workshop Outcomes: For everyone to:

• Understand what psychological wellbeing is.
• Understand how psychological wellbeing affects key business performance indicators.
• Understand the key ways in which leaders increase or decrease staff psychological wellbeing.
• Begin to consider how they might better increase their staffs’ psychological wellbeing and performance.

Available as: A 1 hour education session with Q&As or a half day workshop.

How to Manage Your Staff to Better Psychological Wellbeing and Performance

There are many organisational and external factors that can negatively affect staff psychological wellbeing, and thus their health and performance. This can leave managers feeling that their team’s psychological wellbeing and performance is beyond their control.

This session is for leaders and managers who want to do what they can to help, regardless of the situation around them.

Workshop Outcomes: For everyone to:

• Consider what they can control: It’s typically a lot more than they think!
• Consider the impact of their daily actions on their own and their staffs’ psychological wellbeing.
• Develop an initial action plan for improved daily practice.

Available as: A day workshop or an Away Day.

Attendees: A group of leaders or a leader and their team.

What HR & Senior Management Need to Know About Injury and Pain

Musculoskeletal disorders are the second highest cause of work-related sickness absence (HSE, 2021).

In contrast to the many unhelpful pain-related myths that prevail in our society, latest pain research clearly shows how individuals and every level of an organisation can take control to reduce injury and pain and to promote recovery.

Workshop Outcomes. For HR and Senior Managers to understand:

• The problem of injury and pain in the workplace.
• What happens inside us when we’re injured or in pain: Dispelling the myths that reduce recovery.
• The 5 psychological factors that predict return to work, and how all can be helped or hindered by work culture.

1/2 and full day workshops provide an opportunity to reflect on your current practice and culture. It can be designed around your needs, but might include;

• What do you know about pain in your workplace? What should you know?
• What causes injury and pain in your workplace?
• How to embed knowledge of the 5 psychological factors that predict return to work into your everyday practice and culture.

Available as: a 1 hour education session with Q&As or as a ½ or full day workshop.

A Guide to Managing Those with Pain

Managing staff with pain can be difficult, especially when their pain is chronic or it affects their work capacity.

But managers play a crucial role in whether pain becomes chronic and how well people recover. So a manager who knows the facts about how and why we have injury and pain can make a big difference.

Workshop Outcomes. For everyone to:

• See through the myths of injury and pain, and to demystify the experience.
• Understand what happens within our body and brain when we’re injured or in pain.
• Consider how manager behaviour and the culture they create can lead to work-related pain.
• Consider the manager’s role in aiding recovery.
• Consider how to best provide day-to-day support to colleagues with pain.

Available as: 1/2 or full day workshop.

Creating A Strong Recovery Environment

Helping your injured athletes to heal as well and as quickly as possible is a priority for any sport rehab team. But the biopsychosocial nature of injury and pain, means that it is much more than your team’s practical rehab skills that affects recovery.

Workshop Outcomes. For everyone to consider:

• The science of why and how enviro-psycho-social factors affect recovery.
• The everyday interactions, club practices, and cultural narratives/values that affect your athlete’s recovery.
• Practical steps that you can take to improve your rehab environment.

Available as: a 1/2 or full day workshop.

Managing Those Exposed to Other’s Trauma

Understanding vicarious trauma (VT)/PTSD and how the workplace can increase the risk is vital for anyone who managers or has duty of care responsibility for those exposed to other’s trauma at work.

Workshop Outcomes This session will enable everyone to:

• Understand their role and responsibility in the assessment and reduction of risk factors.
• Know how to recognise a trauma-related concern.
• Know how to provide/signpost appropriate support.
• Consider how to reduce stigma and promote a supportive environment across the team/organisation.

Available as: A 1 hour education session with Q&As or a half day workshop.