EAP: Talking to Your Employer About Personal Challenges

Personal challenges such as health problems, caring responsibilities or difficult life events can affect work. This short course helps you decide what to share, prepare for the conversation, choose who to talk to and understand how health information should be handled. It also outlines reasonable adjustments, Access to Work and what to do if the conversation does not go well. It offers general information and support, not professional legal or medical advice.
Modules
3
Duration
About 20 minutes
Pass mark
80%
Assessment
8 questions from a bank of 12

Learning outcomes

  • ✓Recognise how talking to your employer about personal challenges can help
  • ✓Decide what and how much to share, and prepare for the conversation
  • ✓Identify who you could talk to at work, such as a manager, HR, occupational health or a union representative
  • ✓Understand how health information should be handled and what reasonable adjustments are
  • ✓Follow up in writing and know other routes if a conversation does not go well

Course contents

  1. Module 1: Deciding to talk and what to share

    Video (3 scenes) · 1 lessons · 2 practice questions

  2. Module 2: Preparing for and having the conversation

    Video (4 scenes) · 1 lessons · 2 practice questions

  3. Module 3: Confidentiality, adjustments and other routes

    Video (4 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions

  4. Final assessment & certificate