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Implementing the Management Standards:

·     Train - initially to use training at a senior level will raise awareness. This will send an important and positive message as the training is cascaded to employees throughout the company.

·     Policies and Procedures – ensure your company has effective policies and procedures.  Your Health and Safety Policy (a legal requirement) could have a section devoted to stress and mental health.  Other legal duties to be carried out include a responsibility to do suitable and sufficient risk assessments.

·     Listen – Consider any proposals from other directors/senior managers and think about the legal, moral and business cases for action.

·     Audit – Assess if your company is already doing some or all of the Management Standards.  Help the discussion to focus on what sort of planning, resourcing and structuring the project needs.

·     Commit – Commitment at the early stage is vital for successful delivery of targets in the longer term.  Be willing to commit sufficient resources to run the project and to properly implement interventions resulting from action plans.  Commitment means releasing resources – until you reach a successful conclusion.  Directors and senior management could demonstrate commitment by chairing steering committees or other activities.

·     Communicate your Vision – Tell your employees what you would like to see happening, and keep telling them throughout the lifetime of the project.

·     Support – Support those people in the company who manage the project on a day-to-day basis.

·     Encourage – Encourage your employees to take part so that they feel that their ideas and suggestions have value.

·     Lead by Example

·     Monitor – Check on progress by getting regular feedback from the steering group(s)