Wellbeing at work

Virtual and classroom delivery available​

Your wellbeing is crucial to your performance and happiness at work. Build the skills and awareness to monitor and manage your wellbeing, as well as to support those around you.

Adapted to your group's needs and delivered at your offices or as live virtual training

About the course

Course overview

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A healthy, happy workplace is good for business and for staff. Studies show that the benefits can be seen in the bottom line, as well as in absence rates, staff turnover and employee engagement.

But in busy workplaces and demanding roles, we can easily lose sight of our own wellbeing – and that of others – in the race to meet client deadlines and achieve targets. And when pressure tips over into stress, both our immediate and long-term wellbeing and productivity will suffer.

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This workshop provides the knowledge you need to monitor your wellbeing and that of your colleagues more effectively, and to recognise and respond to the warning signs of stress as early as possible.

Based in the real-world rather than the ideal world, it focuses on practical ways to build physical and emotional wellbeing, and provides a toolkit of healthy habits and useful techniques to help boost physical and emotional wellbeing both inside and outside work.

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Key details

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After attending this course delegates will…

  • Understand what we mean by wellbeing and work-life balance, and how this influences performance and engagement at work
  • Understand the five key areas of wellbeing and how they are interconnected
  • Know how to manage energy levels throughout the day and week to build physical wellbeing
  • Be able to identify and use a range of tools and techniques to support emotional wellbeing
  • Understand how thought patterns, perception and beliefs affect our emotions, and learn techniques to manage these more effectively
  • Know ways to increase influence and control at work and home to become ‘stress resilient’ rather than ‘stressed out’
  • Understand how to build effective, supportive relationships with colleagues
  • Have a better understanding of what gives you and others energy and satisfaction at work
  • Create a personalised action plan with practical steps to take to improve your wellbeing and work-life balance

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1. Introduction to wellbeing

  • What do we mean by wellbeing and work-life balance?
  • The five key factors involved in wellbeing


2. Your wellbeing

  • Assess your personal wellbeing using an assessment used by psychologists
  • Recognising signs of wellbeing, pressure and stress in yourself and your colleagues
  • Circle of control – identifying what you can control / influence and what you can’t
  • The value of social relationships, at home and work


3. Managing physical wellbeing during the working day and week

  • The difference between ‘managing time’ and ‘managing energy’
  • Managing physical energy and recharging during the busy, working day
  • Quick recap on the role of food, hydration, rest and movement
  • Identifying practical, realistic steps you and your team can take to improve your physical health and wellbeing

 

4. Building emotional wellbeing – dealing with pressure and overcoming setbacks

  • Improving and maintaining our mental health
  • Managing your emotional response under pressure
  • Learning to ‘respond’ rather than ‘react’
  • Reframing – identifying thinking patterns to deal with setbacks positively: ABC thinking
  • Multiple perspectives
  • Identify your ‘scripts’ and perceptions and chose what perspective to take
  • Become ‘stress resilient’ rather than ‘stressed out’


5. Enhancing work-life balance

  • Managing wellbeing and making the most of your time – switching off and recharging
  • Being more mindful – at both work and home
  • Achieving a realistic work-life balance – what can you do and can you help others?


6. Action planning

  • Create a practical, realistic, personalised action plan for improving your wellbeing

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Course leader

Kate Jennings is a highly experienced leadership development consultant and coach, as well as a qualified counsellor. She has facilitated large-scale development programmes for a wide range of local and national organisations.

Kate’s background is in the food industry, where for many years she led teams working with clients such as M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. Building on this experience she has spent 15 years working with executives and staff teams for some of the UK’s most well-known organisations. Kate works across private, public and voluntary sectors, with clients in the UK, Europe and USA

Kate Jennings - Cambridge Executive Development

Track record

“Kate has been superb in her contact with us and personalisation of the course content including work specific role plays to meet our needs from start to finish… A course and trainer I would highly recommend.”
L&D Specialist, Northern Gas

“Wonderful day. Filled me with positive energy and feeling very motivated at a much needed time.”
Delegate, John Lewis Partnership

“Great learning experience, but more importantly, I feel I can use what I’ve learnt in everyday life – work, home and personal.”
Marketing Manager, Life Fitness

“Very engaging and interactive. Kate was superb.”
Director, Advertising Standards Agency

“I am noticeably more confident and self-aware since I took part on the course and feel empowered to develop my career in a way that plays to my strengths.”
Scientist, British Antarctic Survey

Cambridge Exec clients - leadership

Additional learning resources

Post-course support

We understand that your professional development doesn’t end when you walk out of the classroom. The time you’ve put in will only make a real impact if your learning is carried into the way you work. That’s why we offer post-course support in implementing your new skills, for as long as required. Your trainer is available to discuss problems, provide advice or offer feedback until you feel confident on your own.

E-learning package

This course also includes access to an ‘e-learning pinboard’, a password protected webpage where your trainer has posted articles, videos, interviews and other useful tools around wellbeing at work for you to draw on for inspiration and ideas going forward.

Bespoke virtual & classroom workshops

If you have any questions or if you would like to speak to one of our trainers about how the Coaching Skills for Managers course could work for your organisation please get in touch. We can deliver the course at your offices, anywhere in the UK – and beyond.

This course can be delivered for your group by our expert facilitators at your offices or as a virtual classroom live over the internet.

In most cases we can provide an all-inclusive quote to cover design, delivery and materials with some basic information:

  • Which course you are interested in
  • Where the course would take place (or if virtual)
  • How many delegates need to be trained

Just drop us a line with these basic facts and we’ll get back to you with a no-obligation quote on the same day.