1. What is psychological safety
You understand the essence and the benefits.
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Psychological Safety
People in your team keep ideas and questions to themselves because they do not feel safe sharing them. In this in-company workshop, you learn to understand and build psychological safety, offline and online. It is a one-day workshop for 6 to 12 participants, in Dutch, English or French.
Do you recognise this?
You ask in the team meeting if there are any comments. It stays quiet, everyone nods, and you feel there is more in the room than is being said. An hour later at the coffee machine, you hear exactly the concerns you wanted to hear in the meeting.
You want people to dare to say what they think, but you do not know what to do differently to achieve that. So you keep asking, and it stays quiet.
In your team:
- people do not share their thoughts and ideas;
- innovation stalls because no one dares to take a risk;
- wellbeing drops and self-direction struggles to get off the ground;
- you do not quite know how to create an environment where people feel safe to give their opinion.
Without psychological safety, your team's potential remains largely untapped.
Why do good people stay quiet in a team?
People do not stay quiet out of unwillingness. Every time, they weigh up whether making a question, an idea or a mistake visible will cost them something in the eyes of their team or their manager. If that answer is uncertain, they prefer to keep it to themselves.
That costs your team a lot. Ideas remain unspoken, questions are left unasked and people take less initiative. It also creates a sense of distance, because you notice that more is possible than is currently coming out.
It does not have to stay this way. Safety in a team is not an innate atmosphere: it is built, through behaviour you can learn.
How do you build a team where people dare to speak?
Psychological safety is a skill of the whole team, and a manager can set the tone for it. You learn what it is, how to recognise it and how to strengthen it step by step, even when working together online.
Our coaches know this theme from practice and work with Tim Clark's framework. That gives you a clear structure to see where you stand now and what the next step is.
In one day, you explore the concept, discover your own level and practise strategies for each phase. This way, you return to your team with concrete tools.
What you can do after the training
After the workshop you can:
- explain the essence and benefits of psychological safety;
- use Tim Clark's psychological safety framework;
- recognise your personal level of psychological safety;
- make the link between psychological safety, wellbeing and self-direction;
- practise strategies for each of the 4 phases of psychological safety, including in virtual work environments.
How we approach it
The workshop lasts one day. You work on five components.
2. Safety, wellbeing and self-direction
You discover how these three elements work together.
3. Tim Clark's framework
You learn the framework that supports psychological safety.
4. Your personal level
You see your own level of psychological safety.
5. The 4 phases
You learn and practise strategies for each phase.
Afterwards you keep practising
Every training is extended in the THOC Leerruimte. Your material remains available and you get an AI Coach who knows the lesson.
We work in an experience-oriented way: you immediately get to work in exercises that resemble real situations.
Who gives this training
Our coaches can give this workshop. Are you an HR professional, L&D manager, manager or business leader? Then we look together at how you co-create a psychologically safe environment with your team.
Frequently asked questions
Practical details
- Formula: In-company training
- Languages: English, Français, Nederlands
- Half-days: 2
- Participants: 6 to 12