Playbook GUIDE for Mental Health at Work

Transformative Leadership

To effectively integrate mental health into your workplace's current well-being programs, it’s important to emphasize that mental health is an integral part of overall health. Leaders should treat mental health on par with physical health, ensuring it receives equal attention and resources. Here’s a structured approach for doing so:

1. Resilience Training and Self-Care Calendar

• Daily Practices: Encourage employees to adopt daily mental hygiene habits such as 5-minute mindfulness exercises, journaling, or breathing exercises to manage stress. These can be introduced through brief daily emails or app-based reminders.

• Weekly Check-Ins: Managers can set up brief, one-on-one or team mental health check-ins where employees discuss workload stressors or share personal tips for well-being.

• Monthly Focus: Design a monthly resilience theme (e.g., work-life balance, managing stress) and offer short training sessions, workshops, or webinars.

• Resilience Events: Host “mental health days” where employees participate in guided self-care activities like yoga, meditation, or nature walks.