Description

What is psychological safety and why does it matter - legally and financially?
Psychological Safety is the greatest indicator of team performance. Far beyond just feeling safe to ask for help if you are distressed, it also means that you are free to create, innovate and speak your mind.

What does psychological safety look like in your workplace?
With global change to the way we do business - we have all been through some level of disruption. Change and high emotions will show whether your company values are worth the paper they are written on. We look at what psychological safety looks like in the workplace and how you know where to start.

Whether you adopt the ISO45003 framework of psychological safety or not - there are some good simple guidelines within this framework that will help you identify the psychological hazards in your business.
We take a quick look at the ISO framework and focus on the aspects that are most likely to be universally helpful to your organisation, whether you are big, small, have some concerns or want to keep a high performing team flourishing. We help you with hazard identification as well as what good looks like.

Wellbeing models - what should they encompass and how to get them off the paper and into life.
We have researched seven wellbeing models and share with you what we found and what resonates with the people we work with. Having the right framework will help you work out where to start as you identify the psychological hazards in your business and how to reduce the impact that they have on you, your people and your bottom line.

ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE

10 March 2022

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand what Psychological Safety looks like and why it’s important.
• A simple guide to Psychological hazard identification using the ISO45003 framework
• Identify where you are on the journey and set realistic goals for improvement
• A review of wellbeing models and what to look for in the one that suits your business
• Detect the early warning signs of psychological hazards and what options you have
• Help you to identify the psychological hazards but also what good looks like
• Benefits of upstanders and empathetic leaders - why the current HR framework is not enough
• The importance of inclusion and addressing conscious and unconscious bias in your teams
• A simple framework for difficult discussions
• Practical case scenarios

SUITED TO

All employers, CEOs, managers, team leaders, human resources professionals. Psychological Safety is important in any organisation in any industry.

PRESENTER

Angela Simmons, Wellbeing Consultant chnnl - Winner, NZ Hi Tech Awards 2021.