Psychological Safety

Overview

This session will…

  • Introduce psychological safety including why it’s important in the workplace and the role everyone plays in establishing and sustaining it.
  • Surface key personal, interpersonal and cultural challenges that effect psychological safety. 
  • Explore factors that contribute to psychological safety and how to best promote them and lead by example - including trust, respect, inclusivity, cooperation, and striving for mutual benefit (aka Win-Win).
  • Discuss challenges that can arise in creating and maintaining psychological safety, such as personal, interpersonal, and cultural barriers, and the impact of stress, conflict, incivility and bullying.
  • Learn strategies and best practices for fostering psychological safety, including effective communication, building trust, promoting collaboration, reaching out for and providing support.
  • Highlight impact of psychological safety on team performance, innovation, change agility, and wellbeing.

Outcomes

Key outcomes people walk away with include:

  • Increased awareness of how trust, mutual respect, inclusivity and cooperation lead to better interpersonal and team psychosocial safety and outcomes.
  • A solid understanding of values and practical approaches for building sustainable relationships and a culture of open communication, sharing, and collaboration. 
  • Clarity on human defences that can trigger behaviours and communication that prove counterproductive to collaboration. 
  • Insights into the role and impact of different communication methods in interpersonal settings.
  • New ways to talk about how to work together towards collectively beneficial outcomes.

Recommended Duration

90 minutes includes facilitated dialogue into relationship and communication dynamics.

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