How an insurance firm broke the stigma around mental health

The solution

The company wanted to break ground in their industry and train their leaders to lessen the stigma around mental health in the workplace. Feel Good needed to provide a solution that achieved the following:

1. Empower leaders to feel greater confidence to lead mental health conversations
2. Help leaders understand why mental health matters and what their role is
3. Teach leaders to understand boundaries, grounded in their reality
4. Show how mental health impacts performance and productivity
5. Support their leaders and show them they are not alone with these challenges

After a discovery stage that got under the skin of the culture at the company and its key pillars and challenges, the Feel Good team of experts designed a live learning journey that condensed key learnings from the Feel Good’s new Brilliant Minds: Mental Health Training that Engages Leaders learning programme into a compact learning experience for 300 of the company’s leaders.

Leaders explored these key subjects during a collaborative and interactive learning journey:

1. Why supporting mental health is a key priority for the future of leadership
2. Creating a shared language and understanding of mental health and how work influences it
3. How to take the mental wellbeing pulse of your team
4. Building the foundation of a wellbeing culture through supportive, safe conversations
5. Being an active role model for prioritising your own mental health to inspire change in others