How resilience workshops can undermine psychological safety...
Giving fatigued or burnt out staff resilience workshops is like trying to teach a drowning person how to swim and expecting it to work - and for them to be grateful.
Let me explain...
Why is psychological safety at work important?
What happens when you feel psychologically safe at work?What happens when you don’t?
Take a few minutes to think about that. What changes, about how you think, what you say and how you behave?
Here’s why understanding psychological safety as a leader matters…
What makes trust so hard to create and maintain?
Trust can transform our relationship with our self, with the people we live and work with and even with the organisations and systems we work within. It has the power to connect people, to increase capacity and to foster collective wisdom and competitive edge. At best, its absence can cause artificial harmony and at worst, dysfunction or outright destruction.
So if trust is so vital to our relationships, why isn’t it prioritised more? And why haven’t we mastered it already?
The one question you should ask your team before the 'return to work'...
The media is awash with studies and articles about the pro's and con's of 'returning' vs. remaining remote. The truth is, it's all academic.
You only need to ask yourself one question.
How leaders can build trust - and why they should...
Can you imagine being in a serious relationship where there is ZERO trust? No. Nor can I. And yet every day millions of people are turning up to work in jobs where they don't trust their leaders, or their team members.
Why does that matter to you as a leader? Because as a leader, you're working in partnership - with the team you're a part of (your peers) and with the team you lead (your direct reports). The relationships you have with BOTH teams are critical to your success as a leader.