It is highly likely that, as a supervisor/manager, you will supervise an employee with a mental illness at some point in your career – whether you know it or not. Mental illness is more prevalent than many realise.
An employee may develop mental illness prior to employment or during employment. Most employees successfully manage their illness without it impacting on their work. Some may require workplace support for a short period of time, while a minority will require ongoing workplace strategies.
It is often presumed that an employee’s mental illness develops outside of the workplace. However, an ‘unhealthy’ work environment or a workplace incident can cause considerable stress and exacerbate, or contribute, to the development of mental illness.
Research indicates that ‘job stress and other work-related psychosocial hazards are emerging as the leading contributors to the burden of occupational disease and injury’.
The purpose of this topic is to establish strategies to allow participants to identify and manage workplace metal health issues with team members and to be more effective in their role of a supervisor/manager. This session also examines the legal requirements of performance management.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this topic, you should be able to:
Duration: Half day
Cost: From $305
Managers and Supervisors, Team Leaders
Training enquiries
1300 55 66 77 option 3 and ask for Training
training@aigroup.com.au
Members with a Workplace enquiry can call the Workplace Advice Line
1300 55 66 77 and press option 1
(Overseas: +61 3 9867 0100)
Weekdays from 8.30am to 5.30pm
(Australian Eastern Daylight/Standard Time)
