Resources for Leaders

KHSC Leader Toolkit: A toolkit created specifically for leaders, providing valuable information exclusively for leadership roles.

• Managing Traumatic or Distressing Events Toolkit 
• Emotional Defusing: Facilitation Guide for Leaders 
• Building Stronger Teams: Supporting Effective Team Leaders
• Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace 
• Printable Wellness Resources

• • KHSC Resources for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts…
  • Inclusivity and discrimination: Avoiding potential discrimination and promoting inclusivity can help strengthen our workplaces, creating positive environments in which all employees can thrive and succeed. Learn more about inclusivity and discrimination
    • Implicit bias
    • Indigenous teachings for leaders
    • Inclusion strategies for leaders

Stigma, together with misinformation about mental illness, can delay the decision to seek treatment and make it difficult for those who are managing mental illness in the workplace. Do your part to reduce stigma - Get the facts on Stigma and Discrimination around Mental Health Problems and find out why Mental Health is Everyone's Concern. Click here for more information.

Resources, practical strategies, and tools to support the continuous growth and effectiveness of leaders in managing, supporting, or leading their teams.

• • Employee Concerns: Practical tools for leaders to address employee issues related to work, performance, and well-being (e.g., managing burnout, communicating with emotional employees, supporting mental health, etc.).
  • Leadership Skills: Resources to enhance the development and effectiveness of those who manage or lead employees (e.g., building trust, developing leadership strategies, improving emotional intelligence, etc.).
  • Team Building Resources: Free, practical tools for building stronger, more resilient teams, including activities, workshop materials, and facilitation tips (e.g., team-building exercises, debriefing questions, conversation starters for psychological health and safety, etc.).

Can’t find what you’re looking for?

• Workplace Strategies Resources by Job role: Choose the job role that is most relevant to the content you’re looking for. For example, you may be a human resources professional who is also a manager and an employee with a family. If you’re looking for help with policy development, choose Human resources. If you’re looking for help with team building, choose People Leader. If you’re looking for help with loss and grief, choose Employee or caregiver.
• Workplace Strategies Resources by Topic: Choose a topic and you’ll be able to see all relevant resources with the content that is most comprehensive at the top.

Explore engaging learning opportunities to raise awareness and build skills that support your mental well-being and your team's.

• On the Agenda Workshop Series with Workplace Strategies: A series of free workshop materials and facilitator tools to address psychosocial. Create an action plan with your team to improve psychological health and safety.
• Resilience for teams
• Psychologically safe leader strategies
• Workplace Strategies Microlearning Modules: Sometimes, we need to learn a new skill quickly. To help you with this, we have taken some of our most popular and practical skills and broken them down into short learning modules.