Getting to Worker Voice and Equity: Implementing the US Surgeon General’s Framework Mental Health & Well-Being – Dr. Russell Robinson

The US Surgeon General released a 30-page framework for mental health and well-being that offers a foundation that workplaces can build to foster a workplace culture of worker voice and equity. This framework is based on five “essentials” (protection from harm, connection & community, work/life harmony, mattering at work, and opportunities for growth). Beyond the lens of wellness these “essentials” align to a blueprint for leadership development to strengthen individual and organizational wellness.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

During these sessions you will learn how to develop leaders that can:
• Demonstrate an understanding of how workplace mental health and well-being are critical to achieving resilience and work-life balance, based on an examination of the U.S. Surgeon General’s October 2022 Report titled, “Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being.”
• Adopt essential resilience skills that are fundamental to managing stress during complex and uncertain work challenges.
• Build psychological safety by gaining and earning trust from colleagues, peers, and supervisors
• Reframe challenges as opportunities to stretch capabilities.
• Develop in-office and home rituals and practices (e.g., exercise, meditation, mindfulness, etc.) to create optimum work/life balance) to achieve create a healthy perspective that positively impacts ability to manage stress.