Lead and Learn Program
A message from the UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Leaders and managers play an essential role in ensuring that the UN System supports good mental health. This includes creating a positive work environment and supporting personnel who are experiencing a mental health condition. The UN Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being Strategy Team has partnered with the United Nations System Staff College to develop a mental health online learning programme for leaders and managers. The Workplace Mental Health and Well-being - Lead and Learn programme helps ensure that managers and leaders have the knowledge, skills, and accountability to support staff and create a flourishing workplace.
A message from the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Martha Helena Lopez:
Objective of the Programme
The Programme aims to develop UN leaders and managers’ knowledge, skills, and accountability, to support the mental health and well-being of personnel and create healthy, respectful, productive workplaces.
Introduction to the Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being: Lead and Learn Programme
“Happy
healthy people perform at their best, as a unit and as individuals”
The Benefits of a Mentally Healthy UN System Workplace
- It impacts on your staff, your team/s and yourself
- It has impacts for your role and performance as a Manager and/or Leader
- It is good for individual Agencies and the work of the UN system
- It is the right thing to do in terms of humanitarian responsibility
- There are legal implications
How to support staff who are experiencing a mental health problem
Mental Health Resources for Leaders and Managers
FACTSHEET 1: Why is mental health and well-being important?
- Introduction – why your mental health as a manager matter
- Promoting well-being and managing mental health in the workplace
- Actions you can take
FACTSHEET 2: How can you improve mental health and well-being?
- A comprehensive approach includes:
- Collective Impact, Supporting Others, and Yourself
- Knowledge – Building Literacy, Taking Action, and Leadership & Management Style
- Getting Started: Three Key steps
- Build your roadmap
- Choose some key strategies to get started
- Put your roadmap into action
PODCAST: Lead & Learn: Mental Health and Wellbeing for Managers and Leaders - Why it is important and how you can improve it?
- A 20 minute introduction to why this is important and what you can do as leaders and managers with insights by two experts, Ruan Boshoff and Daniela Menes.
- It includes:
- What are some practical tips you have for leaders and managers about what they can do to help their team and individuals and function as a role model?
- What are some common questions you hear from leaders and managers about self-care, what are their needs?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
- Mental health toolkit for managers
- How managers can navigate the crisis
- Managers more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition than other employees
- The role of leaders and line managers
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