Overview

Humans are astute and well-rehearsed on knowing how it feels to be judged. Throughout our lives, we file away the experiences and feelings, where we have learned how it feels to be ignored or judged for our opinions or behaviours. For some, speaking up and challenging is what they do and they thrive on it, for many, speaking up in teams is a behaviour to avoid.

Think about a time where you were in a team meeting and you wanted to comment but chose not to because you weren't sure if you should know the answer or you didn't want to come across as being negative or you simply couldn't find a gap in the conversation to speak. Or if that isn't the case for you, think about team meetings that you have been involved with where members of the team don't contribute their thoughts. We have all experienced these scenarios many times throughout our lives - our experiences drive the behaviour of self-protection where we don't speak up.

In this workshop, we look at how building a psychologically safe space within teams creates a space of inclusion, learning,contribution and challenge without fear of judgment or negative consequences. 

Workshop objectives

This programme will help participants to

• Learn the four steps to pshychological safety

• Understand psychological safety drives performance in teams

• Measure the psychological safety within their teams 

• Practice frameworks to build a speak up, feedback culture within their teams 

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Who should attend?

This practical course is suitable for leaders at all levels who are looking to drive more collaboration,  innovative thinking and ultimately increased performance within their teams. 

Format

A very practical, interactive one-day session ideally for a maximum group size of 12. There are lots of different activities throughout the day where participants will work with their own examples to bring the subject of psychological safety to life and build a plan that can be taken back to their business and implemented immediately.

Delivering Training for Purpose

The majority of the training we deliver is either tailored or completely bespoke. This workshop can therefore be delivered entirely as advertised, or it can be tailored to your particular requirements, or we can simply take it as a starting point for a conversation with you before we draft a completely bespoke programme for you – the choice is yours.

Expert trainer

Marie is a highly experienced commercial training and coaching expert with over 25years experience in sales & marketing leadership, capability building and coaching within the pharmaceutical sector.

Delivering training for purpose is Marie's passion, where her aim is to engage and energise her clients, helping them to build the learning mindset, skills and behaviours required to achieve their goals at an individual, team or organisation level.

Combining her commercial knowledge with her training, mentoring and coaching skills, Marie is an agile workshop facilitator who will confidently lead delegates from apprentice to C-Suite level through a clear and memorable learning journey that can be implemented immediately with actionable success measurements when they return to their desks.

Workshop outline

1    Inclusion safety 

• Understand how inclusion safety is the core foundation of creating a psychologically safe space for your team 

• Inclusion starts with you - Explore why unconscious bias is within our DNA and is not to be ignored or feared 

• Experience how unconscious bias and privilege plays out in teams, impacting on team dynamics

• Allyship - How to drive equity in your team through allied leadership  

2    Learner Safety

• Understand the behavioural science behind self-protection and not speaking up

• Errors Good - Black Box Thinking

• Practice curiosity to role model learner safety

3    Contribution safety 

• Team dynamics and the four thinking styles

• How critical thinking in teams comes from leadership visibility, vulnerability and questioning 

• A practical exercise on how to ask great questions to drive thinking and contribution 

4    Challenger Safety 

• How to build a feedback / speakup culture

• The four step framework for timely, candid feedback 

• Build a team charter on how to make feedback a part of your team DNA 

5    Actionable Outcomes

We will use your team examples to provide opportunities for practice

• You will learn and reflect on best practice examples of psychological safety

• You will discover and explore your current team performance with psychological safety

• You will create a meaningful and long-lasting plan to embed psychological safety within your team