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🧭 Managing Mental Health for Managers: What Effective Leadership Looks Like Now

Employee wellbeing in the workplace isn’t a soft skill. It’s a leadership imperative.

In this episode, we explore how managers can confidently support mental health in the workplace, especially as the aftershocks of Covid-19 continue to impact energy, productivity, and emotional resilience.

Whether you're leading remotely or in person, this episode will help you understand how to create psychological safety, model healthy behaviour, and guide your team through uncertainty.

🦠 How the Pandemic Reshaped Mental Health in the Workplace

We cover how key factors like:

• Zoom fatigue and blurred home/work boundaries

• Isolation and the loss of team connection

• Seasonal changes and disrupted routines

...are still quietly affecting team wellbeing—often in ways managers can’t see.

🧱 Why Predictability and Safety Still Matter

In uncertain times, employees crave stability.
That doesn’t mean having all the answers.
It means creating clear expectations, open dialogue, and a culture where mental health isn’t taboo.

👥 The Role of Managers in Supporting Mental Health

This episode breaks down:

• The full spectrum of mental health in the workplace, from stress to anxiety to depression

• Common fears that stop managers from engaging in conversations

• What emotionally intelligent leadership actually looks like in practice

💡 4 Practical Strategies Every Manager Should Use

1. Don’t Assume Everyone’s OK
   Check-ins must go beyond “How are you?” Learn how to hold space for honest responses.

2. Build Trust Through Vulnerability
   Creating psychological safety starts with you. Your team needs to know it’s safe to be real.

3. Model Healthy Boundaries
   Switch off. Take breaks. Set the tone.

4. Signpost Support
   Effective workplace mental health support means knowing what’s available—and pointing people to it early.

🎧 Tune In

Whether you're in HR or a line manager on the ground, this conversation will help you create a culture that supports mental health and builds long-term resilience.

💬 Ready to Equip Your Managers With the Tools They Actually Need?

Our mental health training for managers gives your leaders the confidence and capability to support their teams—without burning out themselves.

Explore our employee wellbeing webinars designed to create lasting change in employee wellbeing in the workplace.

📩 Contact us directly at info@themindsolution.com