What is a mentally healthy organization? What are the costs of poor employee mental + emotional health?

2. Our (BIG) goal is simple
To help build and support mentally healthy organizations

3. What is a mentally
healthy organization?
A mentally healthy organization is one that:
○ adopts a whole-organization approach to
mental health and wellbeing
○ helps individual members flourish, learn and
succeed by providing opportunities for them to
develop the strengths and coping skills that
underpin resilience
○ sees positive mental health and wellbeing as
fundamental to its values, mission and culture,
and understands the direct and indirect costs
associated with poor mental + emotional
health
○ views the mental health and wellbeing of the
organization and its members as ‘everybody’s
business’

4. The costs of poor
individual mental +
emotional health in
the workplace
Poor employee mental/emotional health impacts
organizations in both direct and indirect ways:
○ Direct ($$$)
○ Increased sick days
○ Decreased productivity
○ Increased turnover
○ Increased healthcare costs
○ Mental and emotional health are
deeply related to physical health
○ Co-occurrence
○ Overall prognosis
○ Treatment compliance
○ Indirect
○ Depressed moral
○ Increased conflict
○ Poor communication
○ Reduced synergy