Category: Create and Maintain

I get asked a lot if I can help out with presentation content for internal training, talks or similar, so here is a slide deck for a psychological safety presentation that I’ve delivered a number of times and you’re welcome to use. Please attribute fairly. View a recording of my talk about “Psychological Safety in…
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Meetings, whether in-person or virtual (or the worst kind – a hybrid of the two, where some attendees are together in a room, and the others are remote), are a fact of life for many of us. In fact, many of us spend up to 90% of our working day in one kind of meeting…
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Building psychological safety in your team or in your organisation may seem like a very daunting task, and it can be hard to know where to start. Here are ten things you can do right now that will help to create psychological safety in your workplace, and reap significant benefits for you, the team, and…
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Psychological safety is created through shared values and positive behaviours, where a culture of trusting, helping, and elevating means that all members of the team can work productively and be their true selves, without fear. There are great benefits to be had through building psychological safety at work. Liu et al (2020) found a negative…
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It’s a long and worthwhile journey to build high levels of psychological safety in your organisation, and much of the hard work involves excellent leadership, clarity of direction, effective support, vulnerability, curiosity and much more. However there are some simple exercises that you can carry out with your teams that directly build psychological safety in…
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There are millions of things that you can, and must, do as a leader to build and maintain psychological safety in your teams. But it’s hard to remember millions of things, so here are three key points that will help you create and improve psychological safety, whether you’re in charge of the team or not.…
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New and updated version 1.1 is now available, with extra content about transforming organisational culture, creating mentoring and coaching programs, and optimising for cognitive load. Workshops and Exercises Used by organisations all over the globe including Wholefoods Market, Ithaca, and Action for Good, this is a complete Psychological Safety Action Pack containing background information, a business case,…
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The tangible benefits of building psychological safety in your organisation range from improved innovation, better ideas, and products that thrill your customers, through to reduced risk of failures, breaches, and non-compliance.

Psychological Safety in the workplace is the belief that the environment is a safe place where you can take an interpersonal risk as a group. This means that the team can speak up, especially when there’s a problem present in the team dynamics. It’s also a safe space to give creative ideas.  In a recent…
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