Can team members feel like they can bring up problems and tough issues? Can team members take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed? Will mistakes be held against them? Exploring these questions and others can help determine the presence of psychological safety within a team, which is crucial for quality decision making, team trust and belonging, productivity, and innovation. This workshop will explore how leaders can leverage psychological safety in the workplace and gain skills that promote a psychologically safe culture to nurture safety and trust.
Course Overview
Course Outcomes
- Define the concept of psychological safety
- Describe the role leaders play in creating psychological safety among teams and in the workplace
- Identify tools and strategies to create and maintain a psychologically safe environment within teams
- Develop a personalized action plan to enhance psychological safety
Business Need
When a team stops functioning effectively the issue often reveals itself to be a lack of trust, or psychological safety. Leaders shouldn't wait for lack of trust to become an explicit topic of conversation because that may never happen. Absence of trust is a subtle, creeping phenomenon that may derail your team before anyone notices that it's happening.
Course Topics
Psychological Safety
- Define the concept of psychological safety
- Describe the role leaders play in creating psychological safety among teams and in the workplace
Action Planning
- Identify tools and strategies to create and maintain a psychologically safe environment within teams
- Develop a personalized action plan to enhance psychological safety
Course Schedule
Typical Course Duration
Virtual: 2 hours
In-person: 4 hours
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Delivery Methods
Number of participants
- in-person: 30
- virtual: 30
Course Details
Course Level:
- Entry Level
- Mid Level Leader
Learning Methods:
- Facilitated Large Group Discussion
- Facilitated Small Group Discussion
- Personal Reflection
- Practice Activities
Equipment:
- easel/markers
- LCD projector and screen