Improving Mental Wellness for a Safer Workplace
WSH professionals must often tread carefully to manage diverse stakeholders' competing and conflicting needs and interests to achieve organisational goals and personal KPIs. Such demands can be mentally stressful and emotionally draining. To consistently perform optimally, professionals must stay mentally and emotionally strong, resilient, and alert.
These concepts include 1) Harnessing positivity (generating positive emotions) to increase one's mental and emotional capacities to cope with and manage workplace stress. 2) Emotional Intelligence to build supportive relationships with co-workers, superiors, and subordinates to achieve common goals. 3) Psychological Capital (PsyCap) to enable them to function optimally; It includes Identifying personal signature strengths, raising self-efficacy, setting goals, harnessing self-motivation, and strengthening resilience.
Through engaging activities, reflective exercises, group discussions, and practical applications, participants will be equipped with a deep understanding of Positive Psychology principles and a toolkit of evidence-based practices to enhance their mental well-being, promote positive relationships, and thrive in both personal and professional spheres. This includes shaping safe work behaviours and strengthening organisation's safety culture.
- Senior Managers / Business Owners who formulate policies on safety practices and operating culture.
- Workplace Safety and Health professionals
- Human Resources practitioners
- Anyone interested in building strong mental well-being.
1.Identify, Understand and Manage Occupational Stress
2.Identify, Understand and Prevent Fatigue Breakdown
3.Enhanced Positivity To Improve Mental Wellness
4.Build And Enjoy Supportive Networks With Emotional Intelligence and Positive Relationship.
5.Discover the power of Psychological Capital
6.Strength Development
7.Develop resiliency – “ABCDE” of Bouncing Back
William entered the Skillsfuture training space in 2008. He brought with him thirty years of corporate experience in industries spanning manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, and logistics. These experiences gave him profound insight into the dynamics of workers and management relationships.
He has over a decade of experience conducting various WSH courses spanning from operations to managerial levels. He has also collaborated with SISO Academy to develop and conduct specialised professional development programmes in Emotional Intelligence, Engaging Multi-generational Workforce, Effective team Engagement, Creative Ways of Generating Ideas for WSH Professionals, Code of Ethics For WSH Trainers, and Coaching Skills for WSH Professionals.
William's latest interest is in workplace wellness. He strongly believes that poor mental health is more hazardous to workplace safety than other forms of hazards because it has few overt signs – most of the time, it is invisible until the conditions erupt or explode, and it usually results in very nasty consequences.
For this concern, he has taken a new project under the Total Workplace Safety and Health initiative to visit various construction sites to share ideas with migrant workers on managing occupation stress.
William has been an avid lifelong learner since entering the training industry; he has consistently upgraded his competencies, culminating in obtaining a Mater’s in Training and Development (MTD), a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology, and Specialist Diploma in Career Counselling.
He has competently delivered all the programmes, served as a role model for lifelong learning, and inspired and guided many participants to switch careers successfully.
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Learning Outcome
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Define Positive Psychology: Understand the foundational principles and concepts of Positive Psychology, including its focus on strengths, positive emotions, resilience, and flourishing, and how it contributes to overall mental well-being.
2. Identify Strengths: Discover and identify personal strengths using tools like the VIA Character Strengths assessment, and recognize how leveraging these strengths can lead to increased engagement, satisfaction, and well-being.
3. Cultivate Positive Emotions: Learn strategies to cultivate positive emotions such as gratitude, joy, and optimism, and understand their role in building psychological resilience and overall mental health.
4. Practice Mindfulness: Develop mindfulness skills through guided exercises, enabling participants to increase present-moment awareness, reduce rumination, and manage stress more effectively.
5. Foster Positive Relationships: Explore the importance of nurturing positive relationships and social connections, and gain skills to enhance communication, empathy, and conflict resolution for better interpersonal well-being.
6. Cultivate Resilience: Acquire techniques to build resilience by reframing challenges, embracing setbacks as opportunities for growth, and developing a resilient mindset that promotes adaptability and mental strength.
7. Pursue Meaning and Purpose: Understand the significance of finding meaning and purpose in life, and explore methods for aligning personal values with daily activities to enhance overall life satisfaction.
8. Practice Gratitude: Learn the art of practicing gratitude as a tool to shift focus towards positive aspects of life, leading to increased happiness and a more optimistic outlook.
9. Set Realistic Goals: Develop skills to set and pursue realistic and achievable goals, fostering a sense of accomplishment, self-efficacy, and satisfaction in personal and professional endeavours.
10. Enhance Self-Compassion: Explore the concept of self-compassion and its impact on mental well-being, and acquire techniques for treating oneself with kindness and understanding during challenging times.
11. Apply Positive Psychology to Stress Management: Integrate positive psychology principles into effective stress management strategies, including reframing stressors, embracing stress as a growth opportunity, and developing a resilient response to stress.
12. Promote Positive Work Environments: Understand how applying positive psychology principles can foster positive work environments, improve team dynamics, and increase overall productivity and job satisfaction.