Staff Training & Development
Workforce Capability
We leverage 40+ years of organisational psychology and workplace training expertise to transform leadership and team functioning, from linear skill development into an operational and measurable risk control.
Practical and effective training. Designed and facilitated by qualified professionals. Tailored to high-stakes environments.
TRUSTED BY LEADING AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS
Training Designed for
Leaders, Teams & Organisations
Explore our full suite of evidence-based workshops, seminars, and lunch-and-learn sessions. Choose topics that match your organisational goals or customise a learning experience for your team.
Psychosocial Risk Management
Equip your team with the psychological literacy required to navigate modern workplace hazards. From targeted webinars to immersive half-day sessions, our training transforms abstract compliance into practical leadership behaviour.
Employee Mental Wellbeing & Collective Care
Cultivate a resilient workforce by embedding the science of collective care into your culture. From high-impact RUOK? webinars to immersive workshops on sustainable wellbeing, we translate psychological principles into proactive habits.
Leadership & Management Skills
Empower your leaders to master the cognitive demands of modern management. Bridge the gap between technical expertise and psychological command — from focus and concentration to mentally tough leadership under pressure.
Emotional Intelligence & Communication
Transform soft skills into a strategic advantage by mastering the mechanics of human interaction. From EQ fundamentals to navigating high-stakes difficult conversations, our training provides a clinical lens on interpersonal dynamics.
Habit Formation & Behaviour Design
Leverage the neuroscience of performance to drive lasting organisational change. Move beyond willpower, using behaviour design principles to help employees build high-performance habits and shed cognitive biases.
Strategic Thinking & Innovation
Activate the collective intelligence of your organisation through psychology-led innovation. Move from reactive thinking to strategic agility, focusing on the cognitive conditions required for high-functioning teams.
Mental Toughness & Mental Agility
Build the psychological stamina required to navigate volatility and change. Using the 8 Factors of Mental Toughness framework, we provide leaders and teams with grit to endure challenges and agility to pivot quickly.
Psychological Safety & Culture Creation
Operationalise trust as a performance driver by creating a baseline of psychological safety. Move beyond the buzzword — teach leaders how to activate innovation by fostering an environment where interpersonal risk-taking is encouraged.
Virtual Lunch & Learn Seminars
Drive continuous professional development with curated virtual seminars. From building a mentally fit mindset to activating innovation — webinars to fit busy corporate schedules without sacrificing depth. Monday-morning-ready takeaways.
40+ Years expertise in every training session
What sets our employee training apart is the marriage of academic rigour and corporate pragmatism. We use a four-stage process to ensure you get an appropriate training solution that sticks.
Needs Analysis
We identify your organisation's specific capability gaps, risk exposure, and training objectives before designing anything.
Program Design
Content is tailored to your industry, team dynamics, and operational risk profile — not pulled from a generic library.
Delivery
Facilitated by a workplace psychologist using applied learning frameworks that maximise engagement and PD outcomes.
Evaluation
We measure behavioural shift — not just attendance. Post-training assessment provides evidence of ongoing capability building.
We aren't just trainers. We're practitioners
By bridging the gap between clinical science and operational reality, we ensure your people strategy becomes a measurable competitive advantage. What does this mean for your people and organisation?
Meet the Team behind every session
Co-Founders Emily and Scott Johnson merge clinical and organisational psychology with advanced learning design to engineer sustainable behavioural change. By leveraging neuroscience and vertical development, they move beyond surface-level training to expand leadership capacity in high-stakes environments.
Through psychological precision and high-retention learning frameworks, they architect programs that minimise cognitive load while maximising engagement. The result is a seamless transition from complex theory to immediate, applied skills that bridge the gap between clinical insights and daily professional practice.
Credentials you can trust
Our AHPRA-registered psychologists, bound by the Psychology Board of Australia's Code of Ethics, lead our commitment to providing psychologically informed support that goes beyond generic initiatives.
What Our Clients Say
Staff training & development FAQs
Answers on our training topics, formats, customisation, and how workshops support capability building and psychosocial risk management.
What is staff training and development?
Staff training and development refers to structured programs designed to improve employees' skills, knowledge, and workplace behaviours. At Get Mentally Fit, our workshops and seminars combine evidence-based strategies, practical exercises, and organisational psychology insights to enhance wellbeing, team collaboration, leadership skills, and overall workplace performance.
Why is employee wellbeing training important?
Employee wellbeing training is important because it directly impacts productivity, retention, and psychosocial risk exposure. Under Australian WHS legislation, organisations must manage psychosocial hazards. Wellbeing training builds workforce capability to recognise stressors, manage pressure, and support colleagues — reducing the likelihood of psychological injury claims, absenteeism, and presenteeism while improving engagement and team performance.
Who should attend staff training workshops?
Our workshops are designed for all levels of an organisation: executive and senior leadership teams building psychosocial risk oversight capability, middle managers developing practical people management skills, frontline teams building resilience and communication skills, and HR and WHS professionals seeking evidence-based approaches to workforce capability. We tailor content and delivery for each audience.
What types of staff training do you offer?
We offer nine training categories: Psychosocial Risk Management, Employee Mental Wellbeing and Collective Care, Leadership and Management Skills, Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills, Habit Formation and Behaviour Design, Strategic Thinking and Innovation, Mental Toughness and Mental Agility, Psychological Safety and Culture Creation, and Virtual Lunch and Learn Seminars. All are available as webinars, half-day workshops, or full-day immersive sessions.
How does staff training improve team performance?
Effective staff training improves team performance by building shared psychological literacy, improving communication and conflict resolution skills, increasing emotional regulation under pressure, and creating consistent behavioural standards across the team. Our training is designed for behavioural change rather than just awareness — using applied learning frameworks that maximise retention and minimise cognitive load for busy professionals.
How long are workshops and training sessions?
Our training is available in multiple formats: 45-minute virtual lunch and learn seminars for broad workforce awareness, 90-minute focused webinars on specific topics, half-day (3–4 hour) immersive workshops for deeper capability building, and full-day programs for comprehensive team development. We work with your schedule to minimise operational disruption.
Can training be customised for our organisation?
Yes. Every training engagement begins with understanding your organisation's specific challenges, risk profile, and capability gaps. We use a four-stage process — needs analysis, program design, delivery, and evaluation. Content is tailored to your industry, team dynamics, and psychosocial risk exposure to ensure training addresses your actual organisational needs rather than delivering generic content.
Why choose Get Mentally Fit for staff training?
Get Mentally Fit combines 40+ years of organisational psychology expertise and workplace training experience. Our programs are designed and delivered by a workplace psychologist and a specialist learning designer — not generic trainers. Every session is scientifically rigorous, practically applicable, and engineered for behavioural change. We bridge the gap between clinical psychology and operational reality.