The Psychological Safety Journey Part Two

The Psychological Safety Journey

This year, Wellbeing Works will be exhibiting and presenting at the Health and Wellbeing at Work conference. One of our presentations will be on Psychological Safety and the different steps to achieving this in the workplace.

We’ll be publishing two blog articles prior to the event that cover the four stages of the Psychological Safety Journey.

The topic of this blog article is the final two stages of the Psychological Safety Journey:

• Key actions and behaviours
• The implementation stage

 Step three – Key actions and behaviours

 Through a framework of Psychological Safety, managers take actions which will improve the work environment.

The framework covers areas such as:

• Assessing the current position
• Creating openness to challenge
• Providing supportive dialogue
• Equity of work distribution
• Providing valued feedback
• Creating a sense of belonging
• Recognition of accomplishment

The framework allows rapid, practical progress to be made.

 

Step four – The implementation stage

Once you’ve identified your actions, you can set about implementing them. We can train your managers in the principles and actions of Psychological Safety and Responsibility. Psychological Safety should be embedded in your organisation’s wellbeing strategy. It will feed into other organisational processes including recruitment, retention, performance review, absence management and occupational health provision.

Continuing to evaluate both your own wellbeing and that of your team, will help ensure you get measurable and accurate results from your actions.

You can use our wellbeing evaluation tools to monitor and sustain progress. Psychological Safety should be a Board Level item.

For more information on Psychological Safety or to participate in our course ‘Psychological Safety for Leaders and Managers’, contact us today.