This interactive self-assessment and training resource helps managers and organisations to create a mentally healthy workplace that is inclusive and supportive of people with experience of mental health problems.
Undertaking the How’s Your Business Feeling self-assessment and following the guidance it provides can help you to increase productivity and reduce sickness absence, staff turnover and recruitment costs by creating a mentally healthy workplace that supports staff with mental health problems.
The self-assessment:
- is free to use
- involves answering 14 straightforward questions about your workplace and working practices
- covers 2 key areas
- Action you can take to make your workplace a mentally healthy one
- Positive recruitment practices
- highlights practical, achievable steps that can be taken in both these areas
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- Disability Standard 2009
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- Health and Social Care Awards Nomination
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Why use it and consider mental wellbeing in your workplace?
"...productivity and happiness in your workplace…it makes such a difference to how an organisation functions at every level…turnover, absenteeism, profitability"
"There is a legal requirement to do something"
Dr John Hobson, Consultant Occupational Physician, Michelin Pioneering Consultancy Group