Master the Challenging Mental Health & Performance Conversations

PRESENTATION

Paul Clifford, Psychologist, Paul Clifford Psychology

Topic:  Master the Challenging Mental Health & Performance Conversations

If you are a manager struggling to overcome your fears about engaging in mental health and performance conversations with your staff, this presentation will give guidance on how manage these interactions so you feel like a conversational master.

Managing the mental health and performance of your people are essential management tasks and can’t be outsourced to HR.  Yet many of us become anxious at the mere thought of these interactions. However, avoiding them means we put ourselves and our organisation at risk of successful unfair dismissal and psychological injury claims because we haven’t provided our employees with enough support.

If you’re a manager who’s passionate about reaching your potential and helping employees perform at their best, then in my presentation Master the Challenging Mental Health & Performance Conversations you’ll take away a clear roadmap to plan, initiate and manage performance and mental health conversations in a way that enhances your relationships, takes away the dread and anxiety, and gives you greater self-confidence and job satisfaction.

 

About the speaker

Paul Clifford is an Organisational Psychologist and has 25 years of experience in corporate and consulting HR and OD roles.  His main areas of expertise are within the fields of mental health & wellbeing and organisational performance.

Paul has worked with several organisations to develop a whole of organisation mental health strategy.  This includes SA Police, St John Ambulance WA, and Melbourne Health.  From 2016 to 2020 Paul was an integral part of the team that designed and implemented WorkSafe’s mental health strategy.  Paul has designed and delivered training programs for many organisations on managing mental health and performance conversations.

Over the last decade Paul has worked with WorkSafe, SA Police, Coroners Court, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Vision Australia, Beyond Blue, Berry Street, Melbourne Health, Peninsula Health, Monash Health, Austin Health, NSW Ambulance, Ambulance Victoria, Metropolitan Remand Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Australia Post to name a few.

Paul’s qualifications include Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Honours in Psychology. He is a Registered Psychologist (1998), a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and a Member of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists.