Talking to Your Employees About Stress at Work

Simple Strategies for Making Conversations about Mental Health Easier

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Talking to Your Employees About Stress at Work
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1.5 hours
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Jul 2021
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$199.99
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What you will learn

What your role is and isn’t when a colleague shares mental health concerns at work

How to create a climate of trust, so that colleagues feel comfortable sharing personal information

How to mitigate bias when it comes to discussions about mental health at work

A variety of strategies for helping your colleagues with stress at work, without overstepping

How to ask powerful questions that feel inviting and supportive, rather than prying or judgmental

What to do when a colleague’s stress impacts their productivity — and yours

How to reduce stigma and increase inclusion when it comes to mental health

What to say and what not to say to someone who is struggling

What to do if you’re having a tough time, too

Description

  • What if my colleague tells me they’re overwhelmed all the time what am I supposed to do?

  • What if my direct report’s stress is stressing ME out?

  • What do I do if my teammate is having a hard time at home but I don’t want to pry into their personal life?

  • At least some of my colleagues are remote. How am I supposed to know how they’re really feeling?

  • The pandemic is on its way out. Shouldn’t people be over it already?

If you recognize that stress, burnout, and anxiety are at an all-time high — and you want to know how to help your colleagues without backing away or overstepping — then this course is for you.

A recent study of more than 2,000 global employees found that 38% of people say their company has not even asked them if they are doing okay.

That’s not okay.

Each of us has a responsibility to create an open, inclusive, and safe environment for our colleagues to bring their whole selves to work, including their mental wellbeing. In fact, research has found that feeling like you can share openly at work leads to better performance, engagement, employee retention, and overall well-being.

And yet, talking about mental health and mental wellbeing at work can feel intimidating, overwhelming, and too personal. But it doesn’t have to be. In this course, you will learn how to have conversations with your colleagues or direct reports that help them feel safe sharing their stress — and help you feel well-equipped to handle whatever comes your way.

I created this practical Udemy course for you — assuming you are NOT a licensed mental health professional (and don’t plan on becoming one by next week). This course draws from my education in psychology and social work, my decades of work as an executive coach in Fortune 100 companies helping leaders at all levels navigate stress at work, the research I conducted for my book, “Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life” and my personal experience as someone who lives with mental illness -- and is living a happy, healthy, successful life.

This is the ultimate self-help course: it’s helping you to help others around you (and you’ll definitely pick up some practical stress management techniques to use personally, too!)

So what will this course cover?

  • Why we are so stressed right now (and why it’s not going away anytime soon)

  • Why we all need to have “The Talk" about stress at work

  • What does stress actually look like?

  • How we can step in without overstepping

  • Understanding why your colleagues might be afraid to share

  • Managing your personal beliefs about mental health

  • Creating a culture of trust

  • Don’t assume you know who is stressed out: How to be mindful of bias

  • How to show empathy without getting sucked in

  • How to listen when someone is sharing something personal

  • How to ask questions without pushing or prying

  • What to say and what not to say to someone who is struggling

  • Offering a "Help Menu" of 20+ ways to support your colleagues

  • Practical strategies, tips, and tools for helping others deal with anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout

  • What to do if you’re having a tough time, too

Whether you think that mental health is way too personal for work -- or you can’t wait to start talking to your colleagues about how they’re coping -- this course is for you.

Content

Getting Started

Stress in Today's Ever-Changing Work Environment
Worry, Stress, Burnout: Let's Define Our Terms
Why Do We Need to "Have the Talk" about Stress at Work?
Stress at Work: What Does it Look Like?
Self-Check Activity: How Confident Do I Feel Right Now?

Set the Foundation

What's My Role? How Managers and Colleagues Can Step in without Overstepping
Understanding why your Colleagues Might be Afraid to Share
Managing your Personal Beliefs about Mental Health
Creating a Culture of Trust
When Stress Meets Stereotypes: How to Be Mindful of Bias
Four Mindsets to Adopt to Help Your Colleagues Navigate Stress
Activity: Applying the Four Mindsets

Have the Conversation

Using R.A.I.N. with Yourself and Others
Three Kinds of Empathy: How to Show that You Get It
Listen without Distraction: How to Be Present When Someone is Sharing
Ask Powerful Questions: Getting More Information without Pushing or Prying
Offer a "Help Menu:" 20 Ways to Support Your Colleagues
Activity: What Kind of Help do you Need?
Guidelines for How to Talk About What Matters Most
Tips for Helping Team Members Manage their Stress

Try New Approaches

Strategy 1: Carve Up the Turkey Together
Activity: Carve Up a Turkey
Strategy 2: Use The Four Lens Approach
Strategy 3: Focus on the Bright Spots

Pulling it All Together

Pulling it All Together (and What To Do if You're Having a Tough Time)
Wrap Up & Self Check Activity

Reviews

Raul
September 11, 2023
The content of this course could have been nice 4-5 pages article for me to read and make reference, but we are now "used to" having everything as a video, for topics that do not require visual guidance.
Hector
August 20, 2023
Thank you to Deborah Grayson Riegel for an excellent course and insightful information to pass along to my colleagues. Through this experience, I have realized the importance of improving my empathy skills.
Prossy
July 21, 2023
Very good information that makes me more aware of mental health, clearly I have a part to play we all do
TEEN
June 26, 2023
I learnt useful tactics from this course. It is also good to see what we sometimes intuitively do presented in a systematic and organised fashion.
Sanket
June 8, 2023
Its really good course & i got to understand to discuss stress with each other so that we can create friendly environment . we can also increase productivity of employee by creating environment stressfree
Robert
June 5, 2023
This will aid in understanding the stress & mental health of co-workers and how to manage it properly
Kathleen
May 17, 2023
Great content, presenter was very engaging. Moved a little fast with not much time for practice. However, course resources are there for practice.
Billie
April 11, 2023
It was an excellent course. It was very informative and the instructor was very knowledgeable and made it easy to understand.
Luann
March 15, 2023
The course gave me a lot to think about and work on in my own life. I have tools now to have conversations with others about stress and mental health, both for myself and for the other person.
Savana
March 8, 2023
This course has been very helpful in helping articulate what I've been feeling. I knew I was missing something in how I talked to my colleagues, but putting everything into the correct perspective is helping tremendously. I was having issues knowing how to be a "strong" leader, and was missing some empathy skills that I excel in in my personal life. Bridging the gap is making me feel more empowered as a leader.
Andy
February 21, 2023
An excellent well-presented course with some very practical means to provide support to those in need.
Neil
January 24, 2023
Really enjoyed the course, lots of good tips and suggestions for having better conversations as well as encouraging me to reflect on my own strengths and weaknesses.
Yolokazi
December 13, 2022
It was good to know about stress and how to handle it and dealing with colleagues who suffers from it
DESTINY
November 9, 2022
This is a perfect match for me because I am working to become a team leader, so these techniques are in line with what I need in order to grow into a leader.
Bharti
October 27, 2022
got much more information about stress,its very helpful when someone in stress for how to handle/ communicate them and solving the situation for me and employee

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