5 Steps to Emotional Wellbeing at Work

Emotional Wellbeing Training for Leaders and Teams

Who Should Attend: Leaders of all levels, intact teams

Length Options & Formats:

Conceptual Overview: 60-90 minute webinar
Skills-Builder: 1/2 to 3/4 day onsite training or interactive webinar
Skills-Integrator (Recommended): 5 weekly 60-minute online interactive webinars

Class Size: 4 - 25 participants

Overview:

A survey since the pandemic began shows 90% of U.S. adults are experiencing emotional distress. Not managing emotions productively leads to stress, burnout, and can chip away at mental health. Metlife’s 2020 employee survey found that workplace stress and burnout have a tangible impact on businesses. Frequent feelings of stress and burnout directly cause declines in productivity, engagement and loyalty. Unfortunately, most of us have not been formally taught how to deal with distressing emotions so that these emotions don’t control us.

After taking this course, managers and team members will take away tools and practices to:

  • Raise positivity and morale, especially in “down” times 


  • Manage their emotions to build and maintain valuable relationships

  • Reduce stress

  • Explore new mindsets to deal with uncertainty 


  • Acquire a common shared language to support each other when emotions get in the way

Course Details

This course shares strategies for the five steps of emotional wellbeing below. If choosing the weekly session course delivery option, one step is delivered per week. Participants are guided to practice the strategies in-between sessions as learning tasks.

Step 1: Recognize you have power over your emotions. We harbor many myths and beliefs about emotions from our social programming and our felt experience. Uncovering and turning around these myths with facts from neuroscience shows participants how they can exert power over their emotions when they arise.

Step 2: Identify your emotions. Though this may sound like a simple task, it’s often not that easy. This module helps participants recognize what emotions they feel at any time, how to separate a story from an emotion, and how to dig a little to find the true emotion.

Step 3: Manage your emotions with others. Emotional resilience requires the ability to remain composed in the face of adversity and difficulty or when triggered by an angry co-worker. Participants learn how to manage triggers with others, which will help them maintain and strengthen interpersonal relationships.

Step 4: Manage emotions to increase wellbeing and reduce stress. This module focuses on self-care strategies for long-term stress management and for releasing and healing distressing emotions day to day.

Step 5: Choose new emotions to deal with uncertainty. This module focuses on the learned skill of changing our mindset to choose how we want to feel.