Employee Wellbeing Programmes
& Initiatives
Research shows a clear link between employee wellbeing and better engagement, creativity, talent retention and productivity. We help our clients put this research into practice for happier people and undeniable business results.
WELLBEING STRATEGY
We partner with our clients to create strategies to enhance mental health and wellbeing at work. We help you design plans to identify and manage workplace stress factors to protect employee mental health and psychological safety.
Got a question?
We work with a range of individuals and teams from a diverse variety of organisations. Get in touch to see how we can help.
WELLBEING ASSESSMENT
In your organisation, how do you know whether your employees are finding it tough or thriving―or somewhere in-between? Our Umbrella Wellbeing Assessment makes organisational wellbeing easy by assessing, tracking, responding to, and proactively building employee wellbeing and resilience.
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Our Wellbeing Assessment complements our other services so we can offer you the data, understanding, solutions and expertise that fit your business.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
All our workshops are evidence-based and delivered by psychologists. We ensure psychological safety whilst supporting organisations to improve awareness and management of mental wellbeing in the workplace.
We design our e-learning programmes to cater for flexible learning and schedules. Our bite-sized online learning is self-paced, engaging and developed by psychologists using clinical experience, expertise, and best-practice research in the wellbeing and mental health sciences.
E-learning programmes include:
- Wellbeing: “Together: Te Oranga o te Katoa”: Bite-sized, bi-cultural wellbeing learning. With over 40 modules available, learners can “pick and mix” their learning pathway based on current wellbeing goals and learning preferences.
- Managing Mental Health: Psychological First Aid: Designed for people leaders to increase their confidence and competence in identifying and managing stress and mental health problems in their people. Includes 14 self guided modules.
Our e-learning programmes include a short facilitated group session with a clinical psychologist to enrich and embed the online learning (minimum numbers required).
Our resilience training provides the scaffolding and skills to help people manage life’s daily stressors, live well and enhance their performance.
In our rapidly changing world, organisations need employees who are agile and resilient, able to navigate change and handle disruptions.
Resilience skills go beyond “stress management” and help staff:
- cope well during change
- remain productive under pressure
- bounce back from stress
- manage uncertainty and transition
- thrive on challenge
- enhance a team commitment to building workplace wellbeing and resilience.
Options:
- Resilience 90 min Overview (online or in-person)
- Strengthening Resilience half-day workshop (online)
- Comprehensive Strengthening Resilience full-day workshop (in-person)
Psychologically safe and healthy workplaces that enhance people’s mental wellbeing tend to also get better performance from their people and protect them from mental illness, such as depression at work.
Umbrella’s Mental Health Awareness training has been developed to help all team members identify signs of stress and distress in themselves and others. It supports team members to feel more confident talking about mental health in the workplace, and raising concerns with colleagues they may be worried about.
Our mental health awareness training helps staff to:
- Connect with colleagues and leave feeling confident you have some new knowledge and robust skills to take away.
- Increase knowledge about mental health and mental illness, and gain a practical sense of how the two may present.
- Recognise the factors that have either a positive or negative influence on people’s mental health.
- Identify the causes of work-related stress, and signs that stress has become something more serious.
- Initiate and engage in compassionate conversations, when appropriate, with colleagues you are concerned about.
- Gauge your own wellbeing, and learn strategies for improving it.
Options:
- Mental Health Awareness 90 min Overview (online or in-person)
- Understanding Mental Health in the Workplace for People Leaders half-day workshop (online)
- Mental Health Awareness for All Staff full-day workshop (in-person)
- Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace full-day workshop for People Leaders (in-person)
- Mental Health Masterclass two-day workshop for People Leaders (in-person)
- Managing Mental Health (Psychological First Aid) E-learning (online modules for people leaders)
While all people in a team have a part to play in creating a culture of high performance, leaders play a crucial role in setting the tone and the conditions for psychological safety. Umbrella’s Leading High Performing Teams workshop gives leaders greater clarity on the behaviours which help and hinder in building a high performing team culture, and practical skills to put into action immediately.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
Our Leading High Performing Teams workshop helps People Leaders:
- Understand what psychological safety is and why it is so important for a high performing team.
- Recognise what happens in your brain when you are (or are not) feeling psychologically safe.
- Use insights from psychological research to review the best ways you can boost psychological safety to build a high performing team through:
- emotion regulation skills
- building trust
- developing high quality connections
- supportive leadership
- values-driven behaviour.
- create an action plan to help you recognise the things you do well and pick up new helpful strategies.
Umbrella has developed a series of bite-sized sessions focused on wellbeing and mental health at work.
Overview topics include:
- Strengthening resilience – an introduction
- Mental health awareness – an introduction
- Flourishing, the power of positive psychology
- Shifting the frantic
- Creating a culture of wellbeing in dispersed teams
- Resilience during uncertain times
- Creating an anti-bullying work culture
Our coaching and development services help your leaders improve both their own and others’ wellbeing and performance. Our experienced clinical psychologists combine their wellbeing expertise and business nous to translate psychological knowledge into practical assistance that matches your people’s day-to-day reality.
Coaching is an effective tool to improve both wellbeing and performance. Group discussions are tailored and designed to support individuals and the team to reflect on their work practices, in service of promoting wellbeing and preventing burnout. This sessions are about taking care of yourself, and about becoming more self-aware and skilled.
We offer small group development discussion on focus areas that are key for you, such as:
- improving leadership effectiveness
- increasing engagement and satisfaction in a particular role
- assisting high-performing individuals with isolated areas of difficulty
- accelerating career or professional development
- effectively managing complex teams or tricky personalities
- safely implementing organisational change management
- supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
- dealing with difficult people at work
- how to manage workplace stress
- achieving work-life balance.
Not sure?
Want to find out which workshop meets the needs of your organisation and people? Contact us, we’re happy to talk through the options.
“Working with Umbrella has been a great experience. They’ve provided fantastic insights and help in shaping our wellbeing strategy. We now have a buttoned-up strategy that gives us clear direction and focus to execute.”
“We are so grateful for the responsive service you provide for our staff.”
“Everyone at Umbrella is excellent to deal with.”
“We have presented some unique situations that Umbrella has consistently been able to assist with.”
“Umbrella are always a delight to engage with, and having a team of Clinical Psychologists on hand to provide us with advice, support and training has made a huge impact on the wellbeing of our people.”
NEED A SPEAKER?
Do you want an inspirational speaker who will showcase fresh thinking alongside practical tips and solutions for improving employee wellbeing?
Mental health and wellbeing increasingly appear on conference agenda. Umbrella can deliver motivational and inspiring segments with plenty of practical tips and actionable ideas to take away, and a “common language” for further discussions about workplace wellbeing and mental health back at work.
“Fabulous.”
“Her presentation was received well by the delegates. She came across very knowledgeable and open, and the content was relevant and interesting.”
“Easy to understand and follow Gaynor’s presentation.”
“Great presenter, very down to earth and personable.”
“A well-presented and engaging overview.”
“I wish there had been more time. I believe that Gaynor has a lot to offer the community and businesses alike.”
“Gaynor was really engaging, stayed at the right ‘level’ of content.”