Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace - Half Day
Create a truly inclusive high-performance organisational culture, within which we can, individually and collectively, show up, perform to the best of our ability, and be fully engaged in what we do and how we do it.
Description
To create a truly inclusive high-performance organisational culture, within which we can, individually and collectively, show up, perform to the best of our ability, and be fully engaged in what we do and how we do it, we need to feel psychologically safe. Achieving this needs us to embark on a more conscious and continuous journey, recognising that this is the domain of us all, not just that of a single person nor a senior leadership team. We need to recognise that we are all responsible for, and make, an organisational culture through our mindsets, beliefs, values, and behaviours.
This half-day session offers a comprehensive introduction to creating psychological safety in the workplace. Through a series of highly interactive conversations and activities, participants are invited to explore the ‘what’, the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of psychological safety.
We frame our time together with a higher-order question:
What conditions do we need to create to enable everyone to feel psychologically safe?
We build on this by then taking a deeper dive into exploring what shifts we might need to make, as individuals and teams, to contribute to the creation of these conditions, i.e, what makes it possible for us to show up authentically in our places of work?
Modules/Lessons
We will:
- Clarify your understanding and definition of psychological safety in the workplace.
- Consider the relationships between psychological safety and inclusion, wellbeing, and performance.
- Explore the four stages of psychological safety and how safety differs from discomfort.
- Identify some of the barriers to achieving a psychologically safe culture.
- Explore some of the key actions you can take as leaders to begin to create the necessary conditions.
- Start to build some early insights into the behaviours that enable and support us in moving toward a psychologically
Key benefits
- Fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture within which employees feel secure, supported, and able to experiment and learn.
- Creating a culture where employees feel valued and respected and where open communication, trust and collaboration are integral to the daily work.
- Reducing workplace stress and anxiety and promoting employee wellbeing.
- Increasing creativity, innovation, and overall performance of employees including job satisfaction and increased engagement with their work.
- Preventing negative outcomes associated with fear and intimidation, such as burnout, high turnover, and low morale.
- building greater leadership capability to create high-performing, inclusive, and productive places of work.
Target Student
Leaders & Managers of all levels
Cohort size: 30 Virtual - 25 Face to Face
Also available as a closed in house course for £975 + VAT