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Scheduled Mind the Gap webinars. Limited places available.

GET WORK-READY WITH LAUGHOLOGY ONLINE WORKFORCE TRAINING AND WEBINARS

Even before the corona virus crisis, mental health issues were the number one cause of long-term absence among UK workers. Lockdown will have undoubtedly exacerbated this issue. Supporting people to be mentally ready for a return to work, and to cope with changes in work patterns and practices, is a major challenge for organisations.

Mind the Gap for managers

Managers need to learn to have sensitive conversations to support the mental and physical wellbeing of their teams, who are both remote and in-situ.

To motivate, they need to make people and teams feel psychologically safe. They need to lead with empathy and direction.

These people skills will be crucial for organisations as they transition back to productivity.

We have developed an online foundation course, delivered through virtual classrooms, to help guide managers through these changing times:

Manager workshops: 2 x 90 min webinars: (Ideal participants 30)

Part one:

Leading and managing through extraordinary times

Creating virtual and physical psychologically safe environments
Managing, motivating, and communicating with virtual teams
Supporting teams to flourish through complexity, with agility and flexibility
Creating a Work-Ready Action Plan (WRAP*) with your team

Content

Creating the right environment cheat sheet
Practical activity sheet for creating the right environment
Downloadable WRAP

Additional activities:

Devising a psychological safety plan
Devising a WRAP for your team

Part two:

Big chats, little chats** for mental health and wellbeing

Toolkits for supporting mental health and wellbeing
Identifying concerns early and developing prevention plans
Supporting and signposting when challenges arise
Introducing FLIP for building resilient, future-focused teams

Content

Mental health cheat sheets
FLIP introduction cheat sheets

Additional activities:

Activities for managers to promote positive mental health and resilience
Developing regular check-ins
How to support psychological safety with visual triggers and mental triggers

Mind the Gap for teams

A single 90 min webinar for teams which we recommend accompanies the manager programme

Return to work will raise concerns over safety, wellbeing and change. Some people will work from home, which requires a new mindset and new practices. Resilience, agility and adaptability are core skills. People will need to learn quickly and modify how they work at short notice.

This 90 min webinar introduces

Growth mindset skills for agility and adaptability
Skills for building resilience and positive mental health
Creating a WRAP

Timing allows for Q&A. Large groups are possible but please bear in mind this affects how interactive we can be with individuals. *Laughology acronym alert **Laughology’s coaching programme

Created on 15 May 2020.

Learning and development workshops

We are chuffed to announce that Laughology L&D workshops are now open to the public

Laughology delivers learning and development workshops and programmes to organisations throughout the UK. But for some of you, that's not enough. You asked us if we ever run public workshops outside of the workspace. Well, now we do.

Over the last few months, we have been working our little socks off to develop a number of our commissioned L&D workshops, so they can be delivered in smaller venues with more delegate interaction and learning.

Enjoy! And let us know if you have any thoughts or suggestions. More workshops to follow soon

Creative Facilitation Skills

1 day learning and development workshop

This workshop will teach you to become a facilitation 'Ninja'. We will show you how to lead inspiring learning events, productive meetings and motivational presentations.

Our workshops are delivered by expert trainers who have experience as award-winning comedians, international motivational speakers and business consultants. We cover content including creating a great PowerPoint, dealing with difficult questions, effective storytelling, language techniques, body language, image and presence and turn you into a confident master communicator.

Creative facilitation workshop includes:

Engaging your audience

Scientific and innovative insight into how we access and absorb information. The importance of emotional engagement in your role as a facilitator/trainer/learning guide.
Confidence, faking it and delivering with passion

Using exercises and interactive theory, delegates will be given techniques to help them lead sessions in a way that is confident and assertive while being aware of different personalities in the room and individuals may need from a facilitator to fully engage and learn.
The learning process

People learn best when they experience a situation for themselves and can relate it to their life. Including discussions and activities within a learning session, encourages understanding. As well as this having a clear understanding of what to do next to implement learning, motivates learners to do things differently or change behaviours. Therefore, having a process to ensure delegates have tangible takeaways as well as developing a personalised, fun and original ways to check objectives have been met will embed learning further.
Creative facilitation, ideas and creating original content

We know the most effective way to learn and teach is to engage people emotionally. The brain works best when positive neuro-transmitters are firing. Therefore, as a facilitator or trainer if you can help the brain fire through enjoyable and inspiring content – you will get better outcomes. It’s simple the brain is drawn to things it enjoys, it creates stronger neuro-connections which mean the information is stored and retrieved better. Delegates will gain insights into best practice for creating content in a way that does this.

Teams will have a chance to perform a short (max 7 mins for each small group –) presentation to the rest of the team to include what they have learnt and share something about their expertise.

Each delegate will also receive electronic resources/links and further information to help them be great trainers and design great sessions going forward.

DATE & VENUE

BOOK AN EARLY BIRD PLACE IN 2020

LONDON - 4th Dec, 2020

One Drummond Gate, Pimlico, London SW1V 2QQ

Early Bird runs out 31st Oct, 2020

Standard

£495 + VAT
Early bird

£395 + VAT

This creative facilitation workshop is also available as a commissioned workshop.

Find out more on the Laughology public workshops page

Course facilitator is Kerry Leigh

Kerry is a professional comedian and compere and was the child star of the Operation board game TV ads

Find out more about Kerry Leigh

Liberty Living

Wendy Garrett

The presenter was great, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and very funny. I gained a lot from the workshop which will help me to deliver stats in a more engaging way, how to be and feel more confident when you're not, and to know It's OK not to know the answers to your audiences’ questions.

Atkins, Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology

Great. The presenter really motivated everyone...Many of the participants have raved about how much they enjoyed the course and how useful they found it.

Hull University

Kate Jude

The presenter was knowledgeable, relaxed style, funny and engaging. It will help me stimulate group discussions by using some of the tools and technique.

The Food People

Lizzie

The most important things I gained from the course was how to engage the audience through storytelling, the importance of group discussions and developing confidence in facilitation. The facilitator was really engaging and a great example of an engaging facilitator.

THE CREATIVE FACILITATION WORKSHOP IS ALSO AVAILBLE AS A PUBLIC WORKSHOP

Find out more on the Laughology public workshops page

Created on 24 January 2019.

Training workshop for organisations

MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE TRAINING WORKSHOP

Laughology mental health at work training will empower business owners, managers and HR and occupational health departments, to improve mental health, happiness and wellbeing in the workplace.

Outcomes

Promoting positive behaviours
Stress prevention
Increasing happiness
Understanding mental illnesses and preventative measures
Recognising early signs and symptoms
Normalising conversations and developing a resilience toolkit
Reducing absenteeism and long-term sickness

Suited to:

Managers & HR
Leaders
All Teams

Delivered as:

Keynote
Two hour intro
Half or full-day
Transformation or training programme

Why it's important to promote wellbeing in the workplace?

There is still a huge stigma around mental illness and we need to banish it. We can only do this by raising awareness, normalising conversations and offering practical support to all employees.

Absenteeism, demotivation and low productivity

Absenteeism, demotivation and low productivity are all issues that arise when wellbeing is ignored and people are treated like cogs in a machine, rather than human beings. Negativity can infect organisations like a virus. And most of the time that’s because leaders have not paid enough attention to wellbeing.

Wellbeing impacts directly on your bottom line

Organisations have a duty of care to make sure their people are supported to be well and happy. Ignore this at your peril. Wellbeing deficient organisations struggle to retain good people, they lose time and resources through sickness and they become problematic and uncompetitive. Wellbeing impacts directly on bottom line. Research proves that higher levels of wellbeing result in contented, productive, creative workers who take fewer sick days, earn more and are valued highly.

Watch Kerry Leigh, one of the mental health workshop facilitators, talk about stress and mental health in the workplace.

Workshop Outline

The workshop will explore techniques to normalise conversations and listen and communicate non-judgementally. And will introduce positive interventions on sign-posting people to the right help and how to develop a resilience toolkit.

Morning Session
Introductions and gentle ice breaker.

Expectations: In small groups discuss and share expectations from the day, then with the whole group. Trainer to address and manage expectations.

What is Mental Health? Free flow exercise untapping what we automatically think of when we hear OR read the words: ‘Mental Health’. Trainer to facilitate discussion re preconceptions, misconceptions and stigma.
Introduce the ‘mental health continuum’.

Common Mental Health Issues: Learn the signs and symptoms of common mental health conditions, debunking myths along the way and including video testaments of lived experience and examples of positive portrayals.
How to apply Mental Health First Aid: Introducing the MHFA acronym ALGEE:
- Approach
- Listen and communicate non-judgementally
- Give support and information
- Encourage the person to get help
- Encourage other supports
Afternoon Session

Owning it – what is YOUR role in the workplace – how can YOU help? Trainer to facilitate discussion and capture outcomes re taking responsibility as individuals and as an organisation.

Introducing FLIP it Thinking for Resilience
Focus
Language
Imagination
Pattern-Breaking

Trainer takes the group through each part of the FLIP it process using upbeat interactive exercises to illustrate how effective and immediate FLIP it thinking can be – our proven accessible Laughology toolkit that uses psychology and humour to help people cope in the moment and develop resilience.

Review

Review the day’s learning and make commitment to practice using the STOP / START / CONTINUE method.

Close

Learning Outcomes include:

How to create a culture that supports people to talk and be open about their mental health and promote wellbeing
Having a greater awareness of how to spot mental health issues early on
Understanding positive interventions for sign-posting and helping people to get the help they need
Generate ideas for integrating mental health wellbeing into your workplace
To understand what preventions can be put in place to create a well working environment and individuals
An understanding of FLIP it thinking for managers and teams for resilience

Click to download the course outline PDF

We have added this section so we don't have to keep repeating ourselves

What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?

People increasingly talk about mental health and mental illness as interchangeable things. But they’re not. Just as we all have health, we all have mental health.

We can have good mental health, poor mental health or be somewhere in between at any given time. Mental illnesses are health conditions, which involve changes in our thinking, emotions or behaviours.

How are mental health and wellbeing related?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health as ‘a state of wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community’.

Why work with Laughology?

At Laughology, we understand human behaviour, feelings and motivation. Our expertise is delivering taboo and sensitive subjects and exploring issues in an engaging and fun way.

We use humour to break the ice and provide a platform which enables people to have frank, open conversations.

This session is an opportunity to seek out practical ideas which can be taken back to the workplace in order to create a supportive culture around mental health.

For your enlightenment

Put the kettle on, your feet up, and spend a few minutes checking out some of our most popular mental health blogs.

We're feeling the love!

The session was amazing. So funny, full of engaging, but also pertinent raising relevant, current issues and looking at how to address them.

CIPD Gibraltar branch

Good session - Informative yet entertaining, on a serious topic.

I enjoyed yesterday’s session I found it to be both informative and enjoyable I thought Kerry was very good and encompassed the right amount of humour within the course subject to keep me engaged though out the duration

The course content was very good with the right mix of interaction, slides and videos

More training workshops for organisations

Created on 16 March 2018.

Training workshop for organisations

LAUGHTER AND LEARNING @ LUNCHTIME

The laughter and learning sessions are structured to fit into your team meetings, events, away-days and staff workshops. They are an effective way to get your team motivated and thinking positively and feeling good about where they work.

Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- 45 minute session

Laughter and Learning @ Lunchtime sessions are fun-packed 45-minute bite-sized versions of our popular full-fat conference keynotes. You can select one for each Laughter and Learning session you book.

Our Laughter and Learning Learning sessions will:

boost morale and employee well being
creating a healthy, happy work environment
entertain and deliver a key message

We are renowned in the business for our entertaining and refreshingly different delivery style. When we deliver keynotes, conferences and event facilitation, we bring proceedings to life with fun, interaction and improvisation.

We will engage your audience to think differently, debate and learn using creative dialogue techniques. The sessions are fun and a great way to get people involved and bring your event to life.

They are delivered by our team of presenters who have a background in stand-up comedy, psychology and business and learning. Who will deliver fascinating insights and memorable moments - with guaranteed laughter.

You can select one subject for each Laughter and Learning session you book