The Power of Psychological Safety | Enhansen Performance

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Psychological Safety at WorkKristen
HansenCEO Founder, EnHansen Performance
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What Is Psychological Safety at Work?

• Psychological safety is the ability to share
  ones thoughts and feelings without risk of
  damaging ones reputation or standing. In teams,
  it refers to team members believing that they can
  take risks without being shamed by other team
  members. In psychologically safe teams, team
  members feel accepted and respected.

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 Generating Psychological Safety for Self

• Understanding what psychological safety is
• The benefits of psychological safety
• Creating a brain state for psychological safety
  (understand how the brain works and how the PFC
  interacts with the limbic system In detecting
  threat in our environment)
• Creating a growth mindset and reappraisal
  techniques in order to regulate our own sense of
  safety (including things such as seeing feedback
  as a gift, understanding different personality
  styles can be more slant/direct vs
  passive/indirect and recognise these as an
  emotional response of fight, flight or freeze)

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Leading and Collaborating to Generate
Psychological Safety

• Peak performance in others requires psychological
  safety
• Top 10 strategies to generate psychological
  safety for others
• Activity ascertain which strategies you can do
  more of for team members or stakeholders
• A coaching and a questioning approach to generate
  empowerment, ownership and safety
• Creating a High Performance culture of
  innovation, diversity and performance

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4 Steps to boost Psychological Safety

• Focus on performance
• Train individuals and teams
• Incorporate visualisation
• Normalise vulnerability

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KEY TOPICS OUTCOMES

• Benefits of Psychological Safety
• How the brain responds to safety vs threat
• Steps to boost
• Psychological Safety for yourself
• Reappraisal, resilience and growth mindset
• Psychologically Safe Workplaces
• Leading individuals and teams positively

• Create an environment for diversity, innovation
  and performance
• Coaching for Wellbeing and Psychological Safety
• Psychologically Safe Challenging Conversations
• Habits to form to maintain a sense of safety

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Strategies to Create Psychological Safety

• Promote self-awareness.
• Demonstrate concern for team members as people.
• Actively solicit questions.
• Provide multiple ways for employees/others to
  share their thoughts.
• Show value and appreciation for ideas.
• Promote positive dialogue and discussion.
• Be precise with information, expectations and
  commitments.
• Explain reasons for change. Share the why.
• Own up to mistakes.

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Stretch Goals as a Tool building Psychological
Safety

• Stretch Goal is giving someone the opportunity to
  do something they have not done before but have
  the skills and capabilities to do
• Communicating with them at every step
• Making sure there is psychological safe
• Knowing there will be mistake, anticipating and
  enjoying mistakes as part of growth process
• Celebrate success

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