Why psychological safety is a super strategy for minimizing psychosocial risks

Hey there,

Happy Friday! We hope your week has gone well.

We’ve been excited to see places filling up in our new Certificate In Leading With Safety & Care. This live online training program kicks off on July 19th and if you register now, you can save $150 with our early bird discount.

Just click here to learn more.

This Certificate in Leading Safety & Care is for you if you need to:

• Minimize the risk of work-related stress and burnout in your teams by confidently identifying and addressing workplace psychosocial (emotional and social) hazards with confidential and reliable measurement tools;
• Boost trust and respect in your teams by learning how to foster psychological safety at the individual, team, and organizational level so little problems don’t become big issues;
• Supercharge safety, wellbeing, and performance with an evidence-based toolbox of small, busy-proof actions of care that can be woven into your existing ways of working.

In the meantime, here are three of the safety and wellbeing tools that have been helping us this week:?

How can you build psychological safety?

In our new podcast series, Dr. Amy Edmondson joins us to share her thoughts on why psychological safety can help us to minimize psychosocial risks in workplaces and shares a sneak peek of her new book coming out in September. We loved her tips and examples for building psychological safety through a systems lens.

Why two-thirds of workers continue to report feeling burned out.

In this new blog we share hot-off-the-research desk insights into why two-thirds of Australian workers continue to report feeling burned out at work. We were shocked by the deep levels of exhaustion workers continue to report and surprised by its causes.

What are the biggest psychosocial risks in workplaces??

In this new research snapshot, we identify the five most frequently experienced psychosocial hazards workers are reporting right now and offer insights into the immediate actions leaders can take to ease the rate of burnout their workers are experiencing.

After all, as W Edwards Deming wisely said, "A bad system will beat a good person every time."?

Warmest wishes,

Michelle & Team

P.S. If you’d like hands-on guidance to building more psychological safety in your workplace to help minimize psychosocial risks, then join us for our new Certificate In Leading Safety & Care. This live online training program kicks off on July 19th and if you register now, you can save $150 with our early bird discount. Just click here.