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Mental Health in the Workplace workshop

Posted in Business Workshops.

Date:: 2023-01-24 11:57

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.

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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

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More about the Laughlogy mental health workshop

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.

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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

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Using growth Mindset at work

Posted in Business Workshops.

Date:: 2023-01-24 11:58

WORKPLACE GROWTH MINDSET WORKSHOP

Our workplace growth mindset workshop will turn your elephants in the room into pigs that can fly. It will improve organisational growth, support inclusion and boost people potential.

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  • Outcomes

    • Increase engagement
    • Encourage innovation
    • Build resilience
    • Support Transformation
    • Encourages continuous learning & development
    • Strengthens solution focused thinking and ways of working

  • Suited to:

    • Managers
    • Leaders
    • All Teams

  • Delivered as:

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

Trends show there’s a growing skills gap. Businesses are worried about future access to skills and labour. Our workshop will develop a growth mindset in your organisation, as part of your strategy to address a potential skills gap.

Engaging and energetic growth mindset workshops

Laughology’ s growth mindset sessions can support positive behaviour change through effective tried and tested techniques. Our workshops demonstrate how to develop and adopt a growth mindset through language, and how to develop teams who embrace risk, are more resilient and achieve success through personal growth.

How fixed mindset damages growth and innovation

Without the ability to change and adapt, organisations and the people in them can become outdated, uncompetitive and negative. Research has shown that companies only focusing on target-based results create a fixed mindset culture that struggles to evolve and meet challenges. Growth is suppressed, innovation is stifled. And the result? Unhappy and inward-looking workplaces.

A growth mindset helps teams embrace challenge and change, and supports inclusion

Growth mindset cultures significantly improve motivation, effort and positive approaches to new challenges. Teams with a growth mindset are more likely to embrace challenges, new ways of working and thinking and be more persistent.

Developing a growth mindset raises standards. It also helps us understand the individual in front of us, develops our curiosity and enables us to be open to new experiences and ways of working. This approach supports inclusivity and creates happier places to work, which in turn improves productivity.

Research has found a number of benefits to building a growth mindset culture, specifically around inclusion.

For instance, a growth mindset can reduce stereotyping. Researchers have found that whether or not you think people are fixed or variable in who they are shapes how many stereotypical judgments you make.

If you use a growth mindset, you are more likely to attribute stereotype traits to environmental forces, rather than inborn traits and be more consciously inclusive.

Leaders who enable learning and encourage others to have self-belief will build engaged teams that thrive. Growth mindset principles allow leaders to support teams and individuals to develop continually. Overcoming challenges and creating a positive cycle of continuous improvement.

Theories of growth mindset

Laughology workshops delve into the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of growth mindset. We look at the theories behind the way we learn and develop, revealing how we can use this knowledge to become better at everything we do.

 

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  • Our workshops will explore how to:

    • Enhance thinking skills to advance learning and engagement at every level
    • Explore theory and the practical application of developing a growth mindset in teams
    • Equip managers, leaders and individuals with tools for thinking differently, encouraging them to be more open-minded and receptive to new developments and opportunities
    • Identify areas for personal development and enhanced contribution to the organisation
    • Look at techniques to dispel myths about capabilities and intelligence and how this can support conscious inclusion Address the challenges of limiting unconscious behaviours and language that support them

  • Learning Outcomes include:

    • Understanding personal mindset and how to unleash blocks and potential
    • Gain a greater understanding of neuroscience and how to strengthen the brain’s learning power and self-control
    • Positive decision-making and how to overcome perceived barriers and biases
    • Understanding how to manage personal learning processes to enhance development
    • For individuals and teams to start to use language that enhances growth mind-set
    • Develop skills to give and receive feedback in a growth mindset way, encouraging learning and development
    • Create a learning and working culture that focuses on supporting individuals to be their best

Our Presentation Skills workshops are delivered by expert trainers who have experience as award-winning comedians, international motivational speakers and business consultants

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The session was amazing. So funny, full of engaging, but also pertinent raising relevant, current issues and looking at how to address them. I really look forward to seeing Stephanie again.
CIPD Gibraltar branch
Lots of post workshop comments thanking me for taking the time to find and trigger such a fun and useful session. My challenge was to build team spirit between 2 sometimes competing entities – tick; Improve morale – tick; and introduce an educational session that help customer relationship management – tick. All in a roaring success!!   
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Menopause awareness in the workplace

Posted in Business Workshops.

Date:: 2023-01-24 11:59

Menopause awareness at work training workshop

The Laughology menopause workshop tackles the issues of menopause at work head-on. It enables organisations to start the menopause debate in an open, engaging, non-threatening and fun way.

Book your workshop or keynote now.

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  • Outcomes

    • reduced absenteeism
    • increased well-being
    • improved organisation and working practices

  • Suited to:

    • managers
    • leaders
    • individual team members

  • Delivered as:

    • 60 to 90-minute interactive awareness session

Occupational health and menopause awareness in the workplace

'The change’ as an issue affecting a large proportion of the workforce. However, it is still considered a taboo subject by many businesses. Women comprise approximately half (47 percent) of the UK’s workforce.

About 3.5 million are aged 50 and over. 10% of women quit their jobs because of their menopause experience and many others suffer in silence because they feel it is not a subject to be broached - occupational health issues for older workers in general, and older women workers in particular, have often been ignored - or that they will not be taken seriously.

Thousands of female workers experience key menopause symptoms such as:

  • hot flushes
  • irregular periods
  • mood swings
  • anxiety
  • poor memory

Businesses have traditionally been squeamish about addressing issues raised by the menopause. However, as the UK workforce ages, the discussion must open up.

Menopause workshop

The Laugholoy menopause workshop tackles the issues head-on and allows businesses to start the menopause debate in an open, engaging, non-threatening and fun way.

It helps everyone talk openly and honestly about the challenges menopause presents. It addresses misconceptions and provides information on the workplace implications of the process, covering areas such as:

  • symptoms
  • the impact of hormone replacement therapy
  • gender misconceptions 

Most importantly it gives organisations the opportunity to think about support structures for their menopausal staff to allow them to continue to be engaged and productive team members.


Workshop Tone

Our workshops educate and inform about the challenges and myths around the menopause and investigate best practice on how to support people and help them continue effectively in their roles.

We have years of expertise in delivering workshops which address sensitive subjects in an engaging and fun way. Our unique approach promotes audience interaction and openness. It allows conversations to flow, questions to be asked and opinions to be challenged in a safe and non-judgemental forum.

Workshop Outline

The 60 to 90-minute interactive awareness session will help enhance thinking and highlight some of the challenges faced by everyone during menopause. It will investigate positive steps to help manage these.

The session will explore the neuroscience and biological science of menopause to helps managers, leaders, teams and individuals understand the condition and how it can be supported.

The 60 to 90-minute interactive awareness session will help enhance thinking and highlight some of the challenges faced by everyone during menopause. It will investigate positive steps to help manage these.

The session will explore the neuroscience and biological science of menopause to helps managers, leaders, teams and individuals understand the condition and how it can be supported.

  • Sessions include

    • The science and neuroscience of brain and body changes during menopause
    • An understanding of the menopause and the challenges it presents
    • Exploration of practical communication to help women and men talk about the menopause
    • Exploration of psychological theories such as The Pygmalion effect[1] in relation to beliefs about gender abilities and working with older women
    • Coaching and thinking models to help promote positive decision making, reflective thinking and support
    • Insights into gender neuroscience and myths about the male and female brain
    • Q & A to address concerns, anxieties and uncertainties and to open up conversations

  • Aims

    The workshop will give a greater insight into the challenges and provide practical solutions to menopause. It allows for a greater understanding of how beliefs based on myth and culture can affect how we treat others and the impact this can have on well-being.

    It will deliver tangible, practical techniques for managers, leaders and individuals to enable positive behaviours that promote positive thinking and communication around the challenges of menopause.

  • Learning outcomes

    • An insight into how menopause impacts on women
    • An understanding of how to communicate sensitively about health issues relating to the menopause
    • Understanding conscious and subconscious judgements and the impact they have
    • Techniques for inclusivity and balance when decision-making
    • An understanding of the myths and facts of the male and female brain
    • An understanding of how projected beliefs about brain gender differences impact on empathy and behaviors
    • Practical ways to help enhance awareness and aid a more comfortable working environment for those affected by menopause
    • Suggested ways to expand learning and a commitment to change

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Watch Stephanie Davies, Laughology CEO, facilitate a 1-hour Menopause Awareness workshop for Burges Salmon

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‘I’m so grateful we are actually talking about this. What a great session. I learnt so much about myself.’ The course really helped our staff to talk about the menopause, a very taboo subject. Loved the approach 

West Midlands Police

‘The buzz following the workshops was fantastic and they went down so well, we’ve now secured extra funding from the PMAS to deliver some more.’

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Experiential action learning

Posted in Business Workshops.

Experiential action-learning is used to help delegates refine new skills and embed them into their everyday working practice. 

Experiential, action learning works best when there are agreed assignments or a project to take back to everyday working practices.  For example the assignment may be; managers are encouraged to recognise, reward and celebrate success or a project such as organising and communicating a managers conference. 

This may also translate to a specific challenge a delegate has. At the start of each session – time is put aside to talk through challenge and to encourage peers to join in with supporting ideas to further forward the learning.  

Working with ‘live-issues’ in this way embeds learning and helps delegates use the new found skills in a safe way.  We also recommend organisations have ‘action-learning’ champions or facilitators for greater success of action learning groups or sets.

  • Experiential action-Learning works on:
  • Real problems that are important yet workable
  • Diverse and creative problem-solving in a team or group
  • Procesess that promotes curiosity, inquiry, fun and reflection (lead by a learning consultant or champion)
  • Talk onverted into action and, ultimately, a solution
  • A commitment to learning.


The half day or full experiential action learning session includes:

Format:

How to set up successful learning sets

How to facilitate action learning

Positive enquiry questioning for increasing learning and thinking

Creating actions and action planning in groups

Helping shift responsibility from the facilitator to the group

Creating a culture for action learning


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Laughology lunchtime sessions - Keeping your team happy

Posted in Business Workshops.

A great way to get your team motivated and ready to take on the year ahead is to get them thinking positively and feeling good about where they work.
 
Our ‘Laughter at Lunchtime’ session is the perfect antidote.
 
We know that employee well-being and morale is directly tied to productivity – stressed and dissatisfied staff are less productive while happy employees get more done.  

Creating a healthy, happy work environment is the best way to boost employee morale and increase attendance.
 
In this fun 45 minute to one hour session your team will learn:

  • Top tips and techniques to get motivated and motivate teams
  • Tangible take-aways to feel better and in control
  • Ways to de-stress and have fun
  • An introduction to positive psychology and the neuroscience of happiness
  • Tips to encourage positive laughter for increasing engagement

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Creative facilitation

Posted in Business Workshops.

Date:: 2023-01-24 12:07

Training workshop for organisations

CREATIVE FACILITATION TRAINING WORKSHOP

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

Book your workshop or keynote now.

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  • Workshop topics include:

    • Group engagement
    • Effective communication & storytelling
    • Encouraging ideas
    • Productive meetings
    • Image and presence

  • Suited to:

    • Managers
    • Team leaders
    • Teams
    • Teachers & headteachers

  • Delivered as:

    • One-day
    • Two-day

Don't waste your time and effort on running overblown meetings or courses which have no structure or clear objectives. Or worse still, resource-zapping meetings, workshops and events that have been hijacked by competing personalities who turn them into talking shops or a battle of wills, and a wasted opportunity for learning.

You can master the art of creative facilitation, and deliver inspiring learning events, run better meetings and deliver presentations which will capture the imagination and deliver your message effectively and succinctly. You can learn to manage groups effectively, bring them together and enable them to be the best they can.

Our Creative Facilitation workshops explore scientific and creative ways to engage audiences on an emotional, positive level. Delegates will gain skills in:

  • Communication and audience management with
  • Delivering information memorably
  • Motivating learners
  • Behaviour change
  • Creating content that resonates.

Our Presentation Skills workshops are delivered by expert trainers who have experience as award-winning comedians, international motivational speakers and business consultants

Creative facilitation benefits include:

Engaging your audience

We will share with you Scientific and innovative insight into how we access and absorb information, and the importance of emotional engagement in your role as a facilitator, trainer or learning guide.

Confidence, and delivering with passion

Using exercises and interactive theory, we will show you techniques that will help you lead sessions in a way that is confident and assertive while being aware of different personalities in the room and what 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. This workshop will teach you how implement learning, what motivates learners, and how to change behaviours.

Ideas and creating original content

The most effective way to learn and teach is to engage people emotionally. The brain works best when positive neuro-transmitters are firing. We will show you, as a facilitator or trainer, if you can help the brain fire through enjoyable and inspiring content – how emotional engagement gets better outcomes.
Teams will have a chance to perform a short 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.

Call us on 0844 800 1701 or email Vicky for costs and to chat through how the creative facilitation workshop can help your organisation.

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Brilliant, great, fun… Never laughed so much on a training course… Engaging and thought provoking… Good fun, very memorable and great information that will definitely help back in the workplace.
East Cheshire Council
Great. The presenter really motivated everyone and has enthused them to already start using these techniques in their daily work. Many of the participants have raved about how much they enjoyed the course and how useful they found it.
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Our business workshops deal with a wide range of factors and issues. Delivered by a team of dynamic experts they are grounded in proven science and are engaging, energetic and most importantly, fun.

Laughology learning and development has led the way in designing gold standard workshops which we have delivered to some of the world’s highest performing blue chip companies. For example our FLIP IT workshops have taught unique, enhanced coping skills to thousands of delegates and our diversity training workshops have helped some of the biggest names in global commerce build agile, representative workforces for the global market.

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