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Psychological Safety for Leaders

Psychological Safety for Leaders

Psychological Safety for Leaders Who Want to Deliver

Are you a leader who wants to create an environment where you can fully trust your team, giving you more space to focus on strategy? Do you want a team that has the courage to deliver and challenge each other to continuously improve, so you don’t always feel like everything has to come from you? Are you curious about the possibilities of empowering employees and making optimal use of their knowledge and skills? Then the Psychological Safety for Leaders training from Setting Stages is the training for you!

According to Gallup research from 2022, Psychological Safety ensures:

  • 27% less employee turnover
  • 40% fewer safety incidents
  • 12% growth in productivity

In addition to these benefits, Psychological Safety also increases team ownership, allowing you as a leader to delegate more to your teams. The more your teams can do themselves, the less they need you. That’s great, because then you can focus on the things that really matter, such as setting frameworks and directions.

Psychological Safety

Psychological Safety is the stage you can give a team. The term was coined by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson, who researched what makes some teams better than others. Later, Google conducted extensive research into what High Performing teams have in common, and Psychological Safety also emerged as a prerequisite in that research. As a leader, you want your team to perform optimally in their environment. What does such an environment look like? That can vary from team to team, because every team is different. In this training, you’ll learn how to discover the specific needs of your team so you can support them using the latest insights!

Investment

The training lasts at least half a day and can be extended to a full working day by adding extra components. Participants are expected to have an intrinsic interest in participating. The General Terms and Conditions apply.

What to expect from the training

The goal of the training is to enrich participants with practical tips and techniques to get started with Psychological Safety in their teams right away.

The standard agenda fully aligns with this goal:

  • Check-in:
    • A moment to create a psychologically safe environment in the training itself, using techniques you can apply immediately.
  • The power of power
    • A deep-dive into how you as a leader can impact the people around you and how disastrous it can be if you don’t create Psychological Safety.
    • A hands-on exercise about your own team, so we start with a concrete backlog to work with.
  • Psychological Safety
    • Creating a shared understanding of the concept so we can explain it to others in the same way. A clear definition helps with a clear implementation of Psychological Safety.
  • Interpersonal risks
    • A practical and applicable step that can be taken in multiple ways, using the collective knowledge of the group.
  • Leading with Courage
    • A wrap-up with Lessons Learned and follow-up steps, so the knowledge doesn’t stay with just one session.
  • Check-out
    • A moment to conclude together and reflect on what we’ve learned.

In addition, there are other topics that can be added based on the needs of the group. Possible topics include:

  • Intercultural insights
    • Understanding how different cultures can complement each other and how you can discuss the differences and similarities.
    • A useful addition for companies with a lot of intercultural diversity.
  • Failing forward
    • Understanding how to learn by innovating.
    • A useful addition for teams where hesitant patterns are visible.

Questions?

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