Psychological Safety

Service Description

We’ve heard the benefits of a psychologically safe environment. For innovation, creativity, high performance and joy. Maybe we’ve tried it in for teams but nothing has changed. Or we’re curious and want learn. Based upon research from acclaimed psychologist Adam Grant, this is an experiential taster of leader feedback sharing, which you can practice at your workplace. You’ll learn psychological tools to model authentic vulnerability in front of teams. Far from compromising seniority, they encourage vulnerability loops, giving your team permission to speak up with ideas, suggestions, concerns and mistakes. Without fear of ridicule, punishment or other adverse consequence. Learning Outcomes Understand why leader vulnerability is critical for progress and that it’s a power skill in life & work. Understand why a hierarchy based on competence creates feelings of psychological unsafety for juniors; it’s nobody’s fault. Understand why change has to come from the top. Learn simple, easy to implement behaviours to model vulnerability for your teams, thereby improving psychological safety over the future weeks & months. Target Audience Leaders at entry/mid level management, from any business domain, who wish teams would speak up more. Those who believe silence in meetings or conformity to status quo thinking needs to change.