Illuminating mental health

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.”
Glenn Close

We’re glad that May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, but employee well-being, emotional intelligence and psychological safety at work are on our minds throughout the year at Advantage Performance Group.

One of our key goals in helping organizations develop great people is showing leaders how a culture where EQ and psychological safety are priorities not only leads to happier, healthier people. It also can deliver measurable positive results in terms of productivity, retention, and inclusion, and therefore become your ultimate competitive advantage.

As we learned at our webinar last year with our thought leader partners behind the BlueEQ™ emotional intelligence self-assessment and related workshops, the percentage of workers reporting mental health issues has exploded, and the only dimension of EQ that did not fall throughout the disruption of COVID was introspection.

Harvard Business Review has an excellent recent article on how to be a mental health ally, with tips on what to say (and what not to say) when you want to help someone who is struggling with a mental health issue.

Forbes also has one on why leaders need to prioritize their team’s mental health and how to balance compassion with accountability.

We have tools to help. If you’d like to know more, reach out to your Advantage partner or contact us!

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