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Bespoke Training: Creating Psychological Safety at Work

Encourage Innovative Idea Generation

Overview

A psychologically safe workplace is one where people can take risks, be that trying out a new idea or speaking up in a meeting, without fear of punishment or being penalised.

By creating a culture of psychological safety at your workplace, you will help your staff come up with ideas that can be of enormous benefit to your organisation. Whether it be ideas around improving internal processes or serving delivery, these can help your organisation be more productive, efficient and help with greater staff retention.

Join our Bespoke In-House Creating Psychological Safety at Work course to gain overview of what psychological safety is and how it can be practically used to help your organisation.

Leave the day with an action plan to implement psychological safety and to improve decision making.

Learning Outcomes

  • Gain an overview of psychological safety

  • Understand and apply the key benefits of psychological safety

  • Learn how to implement psychological safety at work

  • Utilise the tools and techniques to improve decision making



All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified,
with signed certificates available upon request for event.


Enquire About In-House Training

To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

0800 542 9414
InHouse@moderngov.com



Agenda

09:25 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45 Overview of Psychological Safety at Work

  • Gain a comprehensive overview of the theories behind psychology safety

  • Learn how it can be utilised to:

  • Improve performance standards – including openness to learning, better communication and levels of engagement

  • Greater teamworking, innovation and creativity around developing new and improved services for a variety of users

  • Enhance employee wellbeing all round – including commitment to the organisation

  • Increase levels of initiative – such as identifying ways to work around processes that impact performance

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Benefit from the four key ingredients for psychological safety

  • Inclusion safety – learn how to ensure that all members must feel included and welcomed without discrimination of any sort

  • Learner safety – gain techniques to encourage team members, irrespective of whether they are new or current, to ask and receive feedback to feel that they belong

  • Contributor safety – contribute ideas, thoughts, suggestions and raising threats without fear of being penalised

  • Challenger safety – encourage staff to come up with ideas and challenge your way of thinking as a leader

12:00 - 13:00 Implementing Psychological Safety at Work

  • Learn how to role-model how to handle failure – leaders role-modelling how to handle failure, not knowing the answers to all questions and sharing how they’re feeling about certain situations

  • Evaluate your current leadership style

  • Discourage negative language between staff

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 Utilise Psychological Safety to Improve Decision Making

  • Learn how to include staff members in all decisions – big and small

  • Gain more consultative techniques to make sure your team members feel included

  • Encourage inclusive decision making to improve organisational outcomes

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Psychological Safety in Action

  • Make psychological safety work for your organisation

  • Review day’s learnings to put everything you have learnt into practice

  • Ensure all team members know what is expected of them

  • Take back an action plan to implement psychological safety at work

16:00 - 16:15 Round-Up and Key Takeaways

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