This course supports Middle Leaders and managers who are responsible for a team of people and wish to investigate ways of improving the experience of their teams with a focus on wellbeing and stress management.

We, at Mentoring the Middle, are experienced and active Middle Leaders in school. Through our courses we share the benefit of our research, experiences and reading. We have spent much time exploring ways to improve the stress levels and workload demands of our teams as we know that this is vital in caring for our teams and supporting them in being the best they can be both personally and professionally.

Within this course we look at the following topics:

• Assessing the current state of your team's wellbeing at work

• Understanding the role of control in determining stress levels

• Identifying ways to improve the levels of control that your team have

• Delivering emotional support effectively and efficiently

• Assessing and improving the physical work environment to improve team wellbeing

• Practical ways that workload can be improved

The course is delivered in bite-size chunks and is designed to fit around a busy lifestyle. Each section finishes with a guided activity to help learners put the new ideas in action. Resources to support the activities and lectures are provided, these are tried and tested resources which we have personally used in our leadership roles.