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Mike Coffey talks with Meg Delp about supporting employee mental health and creating psychologically safe workplace cultures.

In episode 259, Coffey talks with Meg Delp about workplace mental health, burnout prevention, and how employers can create psychologically safe cultures that support employee wellbeing and performance. They discuss the growing awareness of workplace mental health and its impact on business outcomes; generational differences in expectations around employee wellbeing and psychological safety; caregiver stress and burnout among younger employees and the sandwich generation; mental health stigma and why employees hesitate to seek support at work; practical manager training strategies for handling mental health conversations appropriately; how frontline supervisors can support employees without becoming therapists; the role of psychological safety in employee engagement and retention; burnout warning signs including exhaustion, irritability, and declining performance; how leadership and HR can model healthy mental health conversations year-round; NAMI’s Stigma Free Workplace Initiative and free “You Can Ask” mental health training resources; the importance of employee friendships and trust relationships at work; balancing compassion, performance management, and ADA accommodations in…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Coffey

Guest: Meg Delp

Topics covered

• employee mental health
• burnout prevention
• psychological safety
• workplace culture
• manager training
• employee engagement
• retention strategies

Keywords

• workplace mental health
• burnout
• psychological safety
• employee wellbeing
• manager training
• mental health stigma
• employee engagement
• retention
• caregiver stress
• NAMI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NAMI

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