Psychological Safety
Having a diverse team gives you access to a wide variety of perspectives, ideas and approaches. But if staff don’t feel able to share their unique insights, then you’ll never benefit from that diversity.
Humans have been conditioned by thousands of years of evolution to go along with the group and not rock the boat. But this approach can have disastrous consequences when no one feels able to share issues they’ve identified or be honest about failures so that the team can learn from them because of fear of recrimination or hostility.
Creating an environment of psychological safety means that staff can bring their full selves to work, not only being able to share the valuable insights that could transform your next project but also reducing their risk of stress-related absenteeism or simply quitting. This interactive session will help you create psychologically safe working cultures that get the best from everyone and encourage your team to consider a wider range of views and ideas.
Who is this course for?
This training is ideally suited to those with some basic understanding of the broader concepts of diversity and inclusion, therefore we recommend taking our Introductory Courses before moving on to Inclusive Recruitment.
This session is designed for those who are in leadership roles or hoping to move into leadership roles.
Learning outcomes
Your team will come away with an understanding of:
- What psychological safety is
- The dangers of groupthink and how humans follow the herd
- How to build psychologically safe working environments
- Ways to encourage a working culture that values differences of opinion, questions and challenges
What our clients say
“I attended a Watch This Sp_ce workshop […] which was quite simply fantastic! It was really well paced and contained loads of practical advice on the steps you can take to start taking embedding real change and accountability at your business.“
– Kieron Cropper, Silicon Brighton
