Learning and Development

Mental Health First Aider England

Learners are taught by two accredited MHFA Instructors, either for a half day or two days, to encourage them to challenge the language we use around mental health, understand what our different frames of reference are and the stigma attached to mental health; learn to understand what good mental health looks like; explore factors that can have an impact on our mental health; look at how to support both self and others with self-care, giving the skills to influence your own mental health and help prevent mental ill health; learn about diagnosable mental health conditions, what unwell looks like and how to spot these signs in yourself and others as well as understand that there is recovery from mental illness.

The half-day Awareness course and Mental Health First Aid Refresher is only £125 per person, and the two-day course is £325pp, which includes all workbooks.

Charitable part-funding may be possible and can be discussed when booking an initial consultation.

Axiom Leadership Programme for Disabled Staff

Enhancing self-belief and capacity to be an authentic, worthy leader whilst demonstrating this truth to others.

For organisations to thrive, they need more diverse representation in leadership and management roles. This 5-month programme provides an accelerated way to prepare your future leaders with disabilities for the road ahead.

​Through various learning methods, participants develop compassionate leadership behaviours (Atkins and Parker 2012) with a focus on relationship and communication development.

Research shows that compassionate leadership results in more engaged and motivated staff with higher levels of well-being (West, 2021).

​The Axiom Programme consists of:

• A programme launch and gateway development audit
• individual coaching and mentoring sessions
• 6 x workshops covering: Self Awareness, Resilience and Wellbeing; Authenticity; Trust, Delegation and Team Resilience; Inclusivity; Vision, Stakeholders & Service Resilience; Collaboration.

As part of a small, select peer group, each participant will focus on some of the more challenging aspects of leadership, helping each other gain insights and new ideas to take forward.

Participants also complete an average of 2.5 hours of distance learning per week and will receive comprehensive programme resources and support.

This highly specialised, practical and tailored leadership programme is designed specifically for disabled talent, those with long-term health conditions, first-time managers, or those who wish to become a manager.

It’s a five-month, intense, focused programme with a mixture of class-based work, self-development, and group work with wrap-around coaching leading to a final assignment or presentation.

It focuses on solutions whilst gaining skills and confidence of being a disabled person at work. A maximum of 14 delegates per cohort and a minimum of two days a month to be dedicated to the programme.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a national campaign initiated by the DWP in 2013.

This bite sized lunch and learn presentation will guide you through the 3 levels of the scheme, detailing the practical do’s and don’ts for the recruitment and retention of disabled people.

Let’s Talk Disability can then support your organisation with a detailed action plan and working group to support you on your Disability Confident journey.

Disability Awareness, Inclusive recruitment & Reasonable Adjustments

This one-day disability awareness training programme aims to help learners understand more about recruiting and retaining disabled people.

This course explains some of the different types of disabilities you may encounter, and how;

• How disabilities can potentially impact people’s work.
• You can provide additional support.
• Creating a more inclusive workplace.
• Ensuring your recruitment processes are accessible to all and what reasonable adjustments are.

When there is no continuous service required for someone to go to an Employment Tribunal, then you need to ensure your recruitment procedures are correct in the first place to avoid costly mistakes.

With approx 20% of the population having a disability, and many of those are ‘invisible disabilities’, are you confident enough not to attend this one-day masterclass?

Disability Awareness and Customer Service Masterclass

Disability awareness training aims to help learners understand more about what disability is and how the different types of disability can provide unique ways to ensure that you provide excellent, inclusive customer service to disabled people.

Disabled people are the largest minority group and bring with them over £274 billion (that’s $13 trillion globally) of purple spending power – that is, the spending power of disabled people and their households.

It makes business sense to tap into this spending pool and provide a product or service that will attract disabled people to come back time and time again.

What is Allyship, and can it be the vaccine for exclusion?

This highly practical workshop will support learners in understanding how to be an ally.

It will work through how to support and take action for a protected or marginalised group to have a more inclusive organisation.

Time will be spent creating a bespoke action plan, taking the learning and cementing it into an action plan of how to use power and influence to bring peers from underrepresented groups into their working culture.

This workshop works well when delivered with ‘Psychological Safety and Cultural Competence’.

Psychological Safety and Cultural Competence

Lack of ‘Belonging’ is cited as one of the top 3 reasons people will leave their job post pandemic, with 51% citing it as the primary reason they left.

This highly practical half day workshop will lead you through identifying and curbing toxic behaviours in the worksplace, understanding what microagressions are and how to turn the worplace culture into one where employees ‘thrive rather than just survive’.

It will identify how rewarded vulnerability becomes the central mechanism for creating psychological safety and the key to a healthy and high performing culture.

Now, more than ever, companies must take a more human-centred approach as to how they interact, support and communicate with their employees or people will simply walk away, or worse and claim constructive dismissal on the way out of the door.

This workshop works well, when delivered with ‘What is Allyship and can it be the Vaccine for Exclusion’.

Supported Employment Delivery Suite

These weekly on line workshops over 4 weeks will address The Core Values of Supported Employment & Customer Engagement, Vocational Profiling – what is it & how do you do it? Employer Engagement – understanding how to work with employers and ‘close a deal’ and Job Coaching & Additional.

Each participant will receive two 45 minute 1-to-1 sessions within the programme.

One to clarify learning & development objectives and the other to consider how best to maintain taking learning back into the workplace.

Understanding Stress, Anxiety, Depression and how to build Resilience.

Worpkplace stress can lead to depression and anxiety, but what is stress, how can it be addressed?

What are the signs and symptoms and what can be done to support someone at work?

Workplace ‘burnout’ seems to be spoken about more and more, but can it be prevented?

Bearing in mind that 1 in 4 people will experience poor mental health during their working life, then this course will help you understand more about looking after your own mental health at work and building in good coping strategies.

This course works well when delivered with ‘Mental Health for Managers’.

Mental Health for Managers

This half-day workshop guides managers on how to support their staff at work, ensuring their mental health and well-being are taken into account.

The learner will be taken through the relationship between work and mental health and wellbeing, promoting wellbeing, identifying the early warning signs of poor mental health; keeping in touch during sickness absence and being able to return to work with reasonable adjustments.

This course works well when delivered with ‘Understanding Stress, Anxiety, Depression and How to Build Resilience’.

Menopause Masterclass

Did you know that 9 million women are affected by the menopause each year and 25% feel so debilitated by the menopause that they consider leaving their job because of it?

It has only been in the last few years that the menopause has been openly discussed in society and as an employer, what steps can you take to help those going through the menopause at work have a more fulfilling work life?

With the menopause and perimenopause symptoms lasting up to 10 years each, it is having a highly significant occupational health and HR issue and creates many challenges for employers.

This masterclass will support your management knowledge, support and awareness on the subject and how to make workinng menopause policy in the workplace.

All courses or workshops, except for the mental health first aid courses, can be tailored specifically with your organisation in mind and the nuances that may impact your business or customers.

Courses are designed for small groups of delegates, up to a maximum of sixteen. This allows for maximum development and participation, and are available face to face or online.

Without the assistance of coaching, a course alone will not have a lasting impact on creating an inclusive culture with a sense of belonging.

A coaching package can easily be bolted onto any of the following courses and should be discussed when having your free initial conversation.