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Job Role: Supervisors
An employee who experienced depression at work talks about what he needs from a manager to stay productive.
Supervising or managing employees can be challenging and becomes even more so when it includes the responsibility of promoting psychological health and preventing risks to psychological safety.
Each of the bullets below will take you to a page that will connect you to information, tools and resources to help:
- Accommodate persons with disabilities, including mental health conditions
- Manage performance including those who may be emotionally distressed
- Resolve conflict more effectively
- Maintain a psychologically healthy and safe work environment
When surveyed, 65% of managers and supervisors said they could do their job more effectively if they found ways to better manage distressed workers (Ipsos Reid, 2012).
One way to do this is to increase your emotional intelligence as it pertains to workplace situations. The module in Managing Mental Health Matters includes a skills assessment tool, video-based training and many activities to help increase emotional intelligence.
Last updated on: March 22, 2013
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