How to Build Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Psychological safety: What does it mean? How can you see & feel it? Do people on your team feel comfortable voicing their opinions? The lack of psychological safety in any organization is the oxygen, the lifeblood. Recent studies have shown that psychological safety is at the core of all things we want to accomplish in the workplace: innovation, creativity and learning. Creating psychologically safe teams doesn’t have to be hard, but it requires leaders that have a high level of emotional intelligence and the commitment to putting feeling and emotions first.
Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.
Resources:
- Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/psychological-safety-and-the-critical-role-of-leadership-development
- 8 ways to create psychological safety in the workplace: https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/psychological-safety-in-the-workplace/
- Why psychological safety at work is key to preventing employee burnout – Creating a psychologically safe workplace requires emotionally intelligent leaders who can model specific behaviors: https://www.fastcompany.com/90604528/why-psychological-safety-at-work-is-key-to-preventing-burnout
- Diversity and Inclusion Training: https://developingtalent.com.au/workshop-events-diversity-inclusion-training
Show Highlights:
- Understand what psychological safety is & how to cultivate it.
- How leaders can cultivate psychological safety in their organizations.
- Steps you can take to be more inclusive in the workplace.
- The impacts that the lack of psychological safety has on DEI.
If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:
- Website: http://coachwithinsight.com
- Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng
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