Training Programmes

Training in skills and behaviours to enhance workplace wellbeing & facilitate employee productivity

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Training Programmes

Bespoke programmes developed around your needs

Over half of days lost to sickness are due to a stress, anxiety, and depression. Even if work isn’t the problem, it’s often at work that the consequences are felt.

Specialists in mental health training and personal safety training (and in fact a blend of both), we tailor our wellbeing training programmes to the specific challenges of your work environments. We can include your own policies and procedures and will customise our approach to your individual preferences.

The ‘so what does this mean to me as a manager/employee in my workplace?’ piece is so often missing from generic ‘tick-box’ type training. We develop content specifically for your business, so your people know what is expected of them rather than just generic content. We want to help you drive positive change so ensure our training is highly interactive and engaging, giving people the knowledge and confidence to use the skills they learn in their future workplace interactions.

Our team of specialist personal safety and mental health trainers aren’t just academics, their experience is based on real world, frontline experience. We can deliver in any time zone or language and amend content to consider local cultural differences, perspectives, and relevant legislation.

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How we can help

Workplace Wellbeing For Managers

Do your managers know how to build personal and team resilience? Do they understand the link between performance and wellbeing?

Holistic Approach To Wellbeing In The Workplace

How do you and your teams handle mental health support or are the really difficult conversations avoided? How do you prevent burnout?

De-Escalating & Managing Conflict

Are your teams equipped with the communication skills and behaviours required to diffuse and manage conflict in the workplace?

Hear what our clients have to say

The training was engaging, accessible, informative, important and mind-broadening. We came away with a much clearer picture of how mental health issues affect people at work. The training helped to dispel the stigma and fear of mental health - giving delegates the confidence to recognise some of the symptoms and a desire to do what we can to help people through periods of mental ill-health.

Lord Simon Wolfson

CEO, Next

Since 2018 Terry and the team from Oakwood have worked with us as we’ve continued to invest and evolve our development programme. From large scale conferences to local sessions, Terry and team have delivered thought provoking and practical learning on all areas of Mental Health, that resonates within a retail world. They do this whilst ensuring a high level of care given the topic at hand and being responsive to the needs of the learners, even after the core training session has ended.
We’re looking forward to the next phase of our training that will help empower more people in our business whether that’s on an individual basis, to improve their own mental health, or in their capacity as team leaders, line managers and in leadership roles in creating the right environment for everyone to thrive.

Peter Macnab

CEO, Superdrug

Terry and his team at Oakwood took the time to understand who we are as a Company, before delivering a powerful and popular series of training days which spoke to the heart of our values; to care for people in a high-performance culture. Terry helped our people understand that, to stay champions in the race, we have to take our recovery and recuperation as seriously as we do the end performance.

Dan Everitt

Managing Director, MSC UK

Oakwood's approach is highly professional and bespoke. The training I attended with them, along with the top 25 senior leaders at Barnardo's was one of the most profound learning experiences I have had in a while. High quality, fast paced, deep, challenging, thought provoking and humorous. Brilliant!

Javed Khan

CEO, Barnados

Thanks again for all your support over the last number of years, the Oakwood team has been incredibly supportive, and it's great to see so many teams in Amazon leveraging the amazing service you offer!

Aimee Mulkerns

Sr Manager Change Management, Worldwide Amazon Stores, Amazon

The session was a great opportunity to reflect on how and why we should always talk about Mental Health, and how we can support one another.

Nick Mackenzie

CEO, Greene King

I’ve worked with the Oakwood team on multiple projects. It’s a sad fact that violence and aggression is on the rise in the retail sector and AS Watson wanted to be proactive and give our colleagues the knowledge and tools to diffuse a potentially intense situation that could put our teams, colleagues, or visitors at risk.

Claire Reeves

People Development Content & Design Manager, Superdrug / AS Watson Group

Oakwood have completed many sessions for us since engaging with them in 2019. All course delegates praise the trainers for their professionalism, experience, and informative style; making the course easy to digest and changing their outlook on mental health. They have commenced some conflict management training, which we know will be delivered to the same standard.

Tommy Kelly

Group Health and Safety Manager, Matalan

The Oakwood team offer amazing support and guidance when needed. Oakwood were the expert friend that helped us springboard to where we are today, introducing wellbeing champions, Mental Health awareness modules, resilience content and listening groups. We have seen much stronger engagement in wellbeing content specifically and expect that to continue to grow.

Chris Britton

Head of Learning and Development, Carpetright

We were seeking a training partner with experience in delivering services to large complex retailers and one able to deliver the right level of impact across our workforce. We see great potential in using Oakwood’s services to enhance the wellbeing and care of our colleagues; making them feel more confident and able to raise issues they have in the workplace.