Psychological Safety Training For Employees

Psychological safety training for employees covers the half that most programmes skip. Managers set the ceiling, but colleagues decide the day to day. A person who is talked over, or whose question gets a look, learns as much from that as from anything a manager does.

For an all-staff audience the useful content is peer behaviour. How to respond when a colleague admits a mistake. How to disagree with an idea without going at the person. How to notice who has not spoken and make room. How to raise a concern in a way that gives it the best chance of being heard. And what to do when you see someone else shut down.

It also matters that everyone knows the reporting routes and that retaliation against someone who raises a concern is treated seriously in its own right.

Safe Work Australia covers the psychosocial hazards duty. This is general information rather than legal advice.

See Sentrient’s psychological safety training course and workplace bullying course.