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Manager Wellbeing Conversation Kit.

Practical scripts, phrases, and frameworks to help line managers have effective wellbeing conversations with their teams. No training required.

What the Manager Conversation Kit contains

Ready-to-use conversation guides for the moments managers find hardest: spotting struggle early, returning to work after absence, workload conversations and check-ins that do not feel forced. Built on the Job Demands-Resources evidence base, written in plain English for UK SMEs. Free; the kit unlocks on this page.

Get Your Conversation Kit

Enter your details to unlock 6 ready-to-use conversation scenarios with opening phrases, follow-up questions, and dos and donts.

Why This Matters

Managers Are Your Most Powerful Wellbeing Channel.

Line managers are the part of your wellbeing provision that every employee actually encounters. Gallup attributes at least 70% of the variance in team engagement scores across business units to the manager (Gallup, State of the American Manager, 2015, US business-unit data). A manager who has never been given the words is unlikely to start the conversation. This kit gives them the words.

70%
Of the variance in team engagement scores (Gallup)
GBP 5.00
Average return per GBP 1 on manager training (Deloitte, 2024)
1 in 20
UK workers who would raise poor mental health with their line manager (Vitality)
Where to take this next

Good conversations get easier when you know where the pressure is. The IWE pulse is a free, anonymous fortnightly check-in, with results only ever shown as organisation-wide averages of five or more people. Self-serve signup is open: set it up in minutes, free, with no card and no sales call.

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