On this page you'll find all GE HealthAhead resources that are specifically for People Leaders to help you with supporting yourself and your team. There are webinars, apps, videos, guides, meditations, and other content as well as how to best use them!
People Leader Resiliency Resource
As a leader, your role is not to diagnose mental health issues, but rather to create a culture that encourages employees to seek help when needed. Use the information in this guide to provide team members with support. This resource guide is available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Italian, and German. Build your personal resilience and improve your leadership style with meQ. - Learn how this Bank Vice President used meQ to better support himself and his team.
Psychological Safety
Creating an environment where your team members feel comfortable being creative, making mistakes, or voicing their opinions and concerns without fear of punishment or disregard is important towards establishing a culture of psychological safety. Learn more about what constitutes Psychological Safety with this meQ article or webinar presented by Kathleen Vieira - Regional Learning & Development Leader for GE Aerospace. Additional resources can be found by searching within the meQ application.
Employee Resource
Share this one-page list of global wellbeing tools and resources with your team.
Let's Talk
This GE Aerospace Time to Talk video created by David Hoare, Senior Communications & Site Compliance Leader - Wales, highlights GE employees and leaders sharing why it’s important to talk about mental health. You can share this short video with your team to introduce the topic as part of a meeting (perhaps as a safety moment) and people can discuss, comment or not. If you're at a manufacturing site you can share on large display screens or use it as inspiration to create your own short video for your site. Find recording tips and instructions on how to produce anonymously for those who prefer to not be on camera.
Take a Break
It's important for everyone to take time for themselves each day but not everyone does. Encourage employees to take 5 minutes to stand up and stretch, go for a quick walk, or meditate. Schedule time on everyone's calendars to remind them that this is an initiative you support and encourage them to partake in.
Webinars
Healthy Minds Live Webinars
October 15 at 7 a.m. ET – Become a Resilient Leader (meQ - Alanna Fincke): The ability to bounce back from setbacks and move forward is an essential skill set for performance at work today. Learn how to build this capacity in yourself and in your teams. You’ll tap your resilience skills as a manager, especially when things get tough, and learn to build agile and adaptive teams that can pivot and recover quickly when things change.
October 16 at 9 a.m. ET – Why Wellbeing Matters (Workplace Options - I-Lan Hamilton): The impact of the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world over is still unfolding. And with that comes the long-term mental health implications of trauma. This session helps leaders learn the importance of paying attention to the mental wellbeing of their team. It will look at supporting employees, advocating for employee wellbeing and providing positive and proactive mental wellbeing support.
October 17 at 7 a.m. ET – Team Empathy & Connection (meQ - Dr. Andrew Shatte): The ability to connect with others is essential. It allows you to communicate clearly, create a more inclusive team culture, cultivate better relationships, and perform at your best. When we’re stressed empathy is the first thing to deteriorate. Learn how to navigate around common empathy blockers and build a strong foundation of team empathy that endures under stress.
October 18 at 7 a.m. ET – Prevent Burnout for Managers (Optum – Christine Walchuk): Recent evidence suggests that managers can influence employee burnout, directly and indirectly, through the actions they take and the health models that they too live by. What managers do and say matters. Explore the ways managers can help others to cope better with the strains of work-life and understand the limits and boundaries of a team leader’s involvement in the health of their team.
View these recorded People Leader specific sessions to learn new techniques and understand different perspectives.
Leading Through Uncertainty (meQ): focuses on how to manage in these unprecedented times —starting with helping leaders boost their individual resilience and wellbeing, how to better manage anxiety and stress in their teams, how to communicate more effectively, and finally, how to add positivity, which is critical in challenging times.
Mental Health Fundamentals for Managers (Optum): This session provides a general understanding of mental health issues and their effects on work performance, with a focus on key communication skills and enhancing management and support through the early identification of issues. Managers will be educated on the importance of maintaining their own professional boundaries and self-care when dealing with staff experiencing mental health issues.
Mental Health: Recognize and Respond (Workplace Options): Every manager has a responsibility to be proactive in helping support their employees during times of need. Our working lives can have a powerful influence on our mental state, and as leaders in a high-pressured world, it is essential to develop the confidence and competence to identify individuals at risk and intervene in an appropriate and effective way.
Managing Team Burnout (meQ): Burnout is pervasive: We tend to think of burnout as a personal problem, remedied by more meditation, exercise, and sleep. However, burnout is a systemic issue that requires a systematic solution. As a leader, you are part of the solution. By employing small, straightforward strategies, you can create positive changes within your team—enhancing everything from performance to cohesiveness.
People Centric Leadership (Workplace Options): Leaders who follow a people-centric approach to create a healthy and productive workplace put their people at the forefront of everything they do. This relies on emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to recognize their own feelings and those of other, and self-motivation to understand the needs and motivations of others. This session focuses on emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and relating to others.
GE HealthAhead Mini Tour for People Leaders (The GE HealthAhead Team): Join this session to learn about two wellbeing resources, meQuilibrium and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), to better understand what these programs are and how you can use them to support yourself and your team.
Build a Culture of Mental Wellbeing (meQ): About 450 million people currently suffer from mental health issues. As a leader, your role is not to diagnose, but rather to create a stigma-free culture and to educate yourself, so you are prepared to discuss these issues when they arise. Join to learn about mental health issues and stigma in the workplace and gain tools for cultivating a supportive work culture.
Manager in the Middle (meQ): In this session, learn how to recognize the signs of burnout and how to prevent it from happening to you or others, learn strategies for managing overwhelm in yourself and your team, learn how to adjust to changing circumstances so that you and your team can feel more confident in your abilities, and connect to your “why.”