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Unleash Your Company’s Best Year Yet: Top 5 Organizational Goals to Supercharge Workplace Wellbeing in 2024 By / Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas It’s Time We Move Beyond Just “Mental Health Awareness”. As you envision your organization’s mental health culture change goals for 2024, here are some actionable and impactful ideas for implementation. Goal #1: Create or revise policy to be value-congruent with holistic worker health and safety. How do we cultivate culture change? We develop policies that uphold our well-being-related values. For instance, consider implementing “Mental Health Days.” Introduce a policy allowing employees to take designated mental health days without penalty, promoting a culture of self-care.
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Goal #2: Develop an ongoing and stratified mental health and suicide prevention training program. What are your next steps after your basic “Mental Health First Aid” or “QPR” training? (QPR is a suicide prevention training that teaches how to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.) A one-off training is great to get the conversation going but unlikely to change much long-term. How can you integrate mental health skills into leadership development and psychological safety all year long? Consider the following: • Advanced Skills for Managers constructionworkingminds.org/advancedskillstraining
