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Half Day | Max. 20 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Recognise symptoms of mental health issues and psychosocial hazards and respond appropriately
- Effective communication and active listening skills
- How to encourage help-seeking behaviours among your employees
- Mental health support services to refer your people to when facing mental health illnesses
Topics Covered
- Signs and symptoms of common mental health disorders
- How an employee’s illness may impact their role
- How to have mental health conversations with employees
- Mental health support services
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to Face
- Virtual
Overview
The impact of psychological injury in the workplace is concerning. Research shows that 1 in 5 Australian workers take personal leave due to mental health illness (Beyond Blue, 2014), significantly affecting the bottom line of your workplace. The recovery time for employees with a mental health injury is significantly longer at 30.7 working weeks compared to 6.7 weeks for physical injuries (Safe Work Australia, 2022). The economic cost of mental illness in Australia is estimated at $10 to $18 billion in lost productivity (Productivity Commission, 2020).
Leaders can reduce these losses by developing the skills to recognise early signs of mental health challenges and provide effective support. Doing so fosters a healthier, more engaged workplace, improving job satisfaction, retention, and overall team wellbeing. Supportive Steps equips leaders with practical strategies to create a culture where employees feel seen, supported, and able to thrive.
Workshop Outcomes
- Recognise symptoms of mental health issues and psychosocial hazards and respond appropriately
- Effective communication and active listening skills
- How to encourage help-seeking behaviours among your employees
- Mental health support services to refer your people to when facing mental health illnesses
Topics Covered
- Signs and symptoms of common mental health disorders
- How an employee’s illness may impact their role
- How to have mental health conversations with employees
- Mental health support services
Who is this workshop for
- Executive teams and senior leaders
- Directors and general managers
- Heads of departments or business units
- People leaders responsible for team performance and wellbeing
- HR and L&D leaders who influence culture and leadership practices
- Organisations committed to embedding mental health and wellbeing into leadership strategy
Handouts/materials provided
- PDF workbooks
- Resources with contact details for support services
- Interactive activities to support your learning
What to bring
An open mind and a willingness to engage, notebook or journal, pen and highlighter
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Rebecca Hannan is a Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategist, coach and facilitator who helps people think well, lead well and live well. Her career spans over four decades across mining, education, local government, justice, community and private sectors. She also holds a Psychology Honours degree focused on workplace mental health. Rebecca brings a rare mix of lived, practical and research-informed experience to every room she works in.
Rebecca has designed and delivered a wide range of mental health and wellbeing programs and presentations across mining, oil and gas, the public sector, government and private enterprise. Her work across these industries has given her a deep understanding of how communication, culture, and change shape the wellbeing of people at work and at home.
Her Honours research explored the barriers and facilitators to putting evidence-based mental health interventions into practice in workplaces, using a systems thinking approach. It means her coaching looks beyond the individual to the leadership, culture and wider systems that help people thrive or hold them back.
Rebecca coaches leaders and teams in:
• Communication, assertiveness and setting professional boundaries, including how to have the conversations people tend to avoid
• Recognising unconscious bias and microaggressions, and building inclusive, culturally safe workplace behaviours
• Working effectively across multicultural and multigenerational teams
• Navigating organisational change and building personal and team resilience
• Supporting others through change, career planning and professional development
Having built several businesses from the ground up, including leading a team of 20 as Director of a real estate company, Rebecca understands the pressures leaders face.
Away from work, you’ll find her walking in nature, preparing healthy food and spending time with the family she adores.
Nature lover, mother, businesswoman, wife, salad queen, risk-taker, organiser, coast dweller, starter, finisher, negotiator, listener, chaos buster... The Momentum Maker.
Key Expertise
- Workplace Mental Health
- Mental Health Literacy
- Suicide Prevention
- Leadership Development
- Psychosocial Safety
- Wellbeing
Industry Focus
- Corporate
- Mining
- Education
- Government
- Construction
- Small - Medium Enterprise (SME)
- Health Care
Based in:
About the facilitator
Rebecca Hannan is a Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategist, coach and facilitator who helps people think well, lead well and live well. Her career spans over four decades across mining, education, local government, justice, community and private sectors. She also holds a Psychology Honours degree focused on workplace mental health. Rebecca brings a rare mix of lived, practical and research-informed experience to every room she works in.
Rebecca has designed and delivered a wide range of mental health and wellbeing programs and presentations across mining, oil and gas, the public sector, government and private enterprise. Her work across these industries has given her a deep understanding of how communication, culture, and change shape the wellbeing of people at work and at home.
Her Honours research explored the barriers and facilitators to putting evidence-based mental health interventions into practice in workplaces, using a systems thinking approach. It means her coaching looks beyond the individual to the leadership, culture and wider systems that help people thrive or hold them back.
Rebecca coaches leaders and teams in:
• Communication, assertiveness and setting professional boundaries, including how to have the conversations people tend to avoid
• Recognising unconscious bias and microaggressions, and building inclusive, culturally safe workplace behaviours
• Working effectively across multicultural and multigenerational teams
• Navigating organisational change and building personal and team resilience
• Supporting others through change, career planning and professional development
Having built several businesses from the ground up, including leading a team of 20 as Director of a real estate company, Rebecca understands the pressures leaders face.
Away from work, you’ll find her walking in nature, preparing healthy food and spending time with the family she adores.
Nature lover, mother, businesswoman, wife, salad queen, risk-taker, organiser, coast dweller, starter, finisher, negotiator, listener, chaos buster... The Momentum Maker.
Key Expertise
- Workplace Mental Health
- Mental Health Literacy
- Suicide Prevention
- Leadership Development
- Psychosocial Safety
- Wellbeing
Industry Focus
- Corporate
- Mining
- Education
- Government
- Construction
- Small - Medium Enterprise (SME)
- Health Care
Based in:
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