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Mental Health, Leadership, and Managing Through Times of Challenge and Crisis

Many of our teams were having difficulty coping with stress and were facing burnout long before COVID-19 came along. Now we are seeing that this stress is heightened even further, and our teams are struggling to find their way. Learn the most effective strategies that will help your teams stay engaged, balance the uncertainty, and build their resilience. 

Learning Objectives:

• Avoid pitfalls to managing a team during and after crisis using the 7 keys
• Recognize the mental health indicators and symptoms that are signaling that your team is not coping with the uncertainty and business disruption.
• Discover the 3C’s that are vital to effective leadership.
• Detect, assess, and minimize the causes and symptoms of stress that those on your team may be facing.
• Understand the different types of resiliency strategies that can protect your team’s mental health and enable them to relax more and feel better.
• Ask three simple questions in developing a meaningful and relevant Personal Resiliency Plan based on the S-O-S Principle^TM to reduce stress and stress overland and increase resiliency to deal with future changes and challenges
• Generate actionable ideas to overcome challenges and gain more happiness, satisfaction, and joy.
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Beverly Beuermann-King specializes in working with people and organizations who want to control their reactions to stress, build resiliency against life’s challenges and live healthy, successful lives using her S-O-S Principle

Life Is Full of Irony  In public school and into university, I dreaded public speaking. It made me ill just to think about standing on stage in front of others. I would visibly shake. Tears would roll down my face. And often all I could hear was the buzzing in my ears. It would have come as a surprise to all my teachers, that after university, I was hired by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), to be a public presenter of mental health information.

After I was hired, I was petrified thinking about my public speaking role. The memories from the past seeped in. What if I really couldn’t handle the presentations? What if my fear prevented me from speaking and sharing? What if that fear caused me to lose my job?

This was my dream job. I wanted to be a part of a movement to remove stigma, bring understanding and help others find the strategies that they so desperately needed. So, I stepped into my role and a surprising thing happened once I got started, I was not so nervous, upset or even flustered. I was energized, passionate and powerful—even funny—and my audiences responded. Seeing their 'light-bulb moments' fueled me even further.

I discovered the secret to overcoming my public speaking fear. PASSION. PURPOSE. POSSIBILITY. I could help others by sharing my insights from past lessons learned and information researched. When I connected to these, the fear was inconsequential. I went on to speak to thousands of people on behalf of the CMHA and we made a difference; we helped to lessen the stigma around mental illness and mental health. The media even dubbed me The Resiliency Builder.

Today, I continue to share these messages around building resiliency, managing stress, and creating wellness, through my S-O-S Principle™. I love working with stressed-out, frustrated or struggling front-line teams and organizational leaders so that they can become less stressed, more resilient, healthier, and productive.

 Outcomes of Working with Beverly Include:

Confident, Supportive Leaders
Resilient, Healthy Teams
Compassionate, Effective Communication
Healthy, Less Stressful Environment
Positive Impact on Benefit Plan

Get in touch

My office number is 705-786-0437. I keep fairly typical hours during the week. However, I do get busy — especially when I’m leading a presentation or event. So if you can’t get hold of me personally by phone, you can reach my office at [email protected]

Please RSVP online by Noon on Friday, February 5, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact YVC SHRM President, Amy Schneider, [email protected]  406.869.3324.