Psychological Safety: An Imperative for High Performing Teams
Some of business’s greatest innovations originated from people willing to think out of the box and take a gamble on an “unlikely” idea. Unfortunately, most of us find it a challenge to be open, think creatively, and take risks for fear of being criticized, judged, or even laughed at. That’s why psychological safety is a far more powerful tool than its name might suggest.
This course will help you become familiar with the elements of psychological safety and how they relate to trust, high-performing teams and innovation. You’ll also learn how to apply psychological safety in your organization through a special capstone exercise.
Who Should Attend
- Leaders
- Managers
- Team Leads
- HR professionals
- Decision makers
- Other stakeholders across job functions who need to create an open and accepting culture for greater success
How You Will Benefit
- Learn what comprises psychological safety, as well as the business imperative for it
- Recognize the high-level science and research behind psychological safety
- Enhance your understanding of healthy conflict and its value in fostering psychological safety
- Experience how to build connection rapidly and with ease among team members
- Gain more skill in utilizing courageous conversations
- Recognize the mindsets and behaviors that impact psychological safety
- Review case studies of organizations with high and low levels of psychological safety
- Develop greater confidence creating environments that foster increased trust, belonging, and risk-taking, leading to higher levels of innovation, satisfaction, and performance
- Practice using interpersonal skills to develop a climate of high psychological safety
- Take ownership of supporting a culture of psychological safety
What You Will Cover
- Defining psychological safety and discussing its benefits
- Exploring the impact when psychological safety is not part of your team and organizational culture
- Learning how remote and flexible work influence psychological safety
- Discussing the people and business imperative for psychological safety
- Exploring strategies to effectively engage all voices and manage diverse perspectives
- Creating emotionally and socially intelligent practices to foster psychological safety
- Identifying the behaviors that make us feel more psychologically secure
- Influencing power structure drivers to develop a workplace of psychological safety
- Exploring 3 crucial concepts in relation to psychological safety: trust, risk and vulnerability
- Developing strategies for effective feedback delivery and healthy conflict management
- Providing feedback to positively reinforce behaviors and celebrate success
- Creating psychological safety in a virtual environment
- Capstone Activity: Taking ownership of helping to develop a culture of psychological safety
