Do you feel "safe enough" at work?

Hey there, 

We hope you’re feeling ‘safe enough’ this week at work to supercharge your wellbeing and performance. 

Over the past two years we’ve had the privilege and pleasure of working with HR teams, OHS leaders, and wellbeing champions to build more psychosocial (emotional and social) safety in workplaces, schools, and communities. 

Together we’ve discovered that when it comes to creating effective, affordable, and sustainable practices there are four important steps to building cultures that are ‘safe enough’. 

Want to know what they are? 

[Join us for the live online workshop]

Based on real-world case studies, this live online workshop will take you behind the scenes to learn how: 

• A K-12 school built a shared language across their workplace to help leaders and team spot psychosocial risks and monitor controls with four simple questions everyone can use. 

• A local city council taught their leaders to assess risks and co-create a psychosocial safety toolbox of controls, whilst completing their legally required Psychosocial Safety Risk Register. 

• An entertainment organization trained their HR, OHS and wellbeing champions to lead psychosocial safety conversations and delivered workshops with leaders and teams across their workplace to address Unachievable Job Demands, Poor Change Management, Lack Of Role Clarity, and many other hazards. 

But hurry! If you purchase your early bird ticket before midnight on the 8th August you can save $50. You’ll also receive our beautifully designed PDF posters and cheat sheets to help your leaders spot psychosocial risks in their teams. 

[Click here to join us]

In the meantime, here are three of our favorite tiny psychosocial safety insights that may help you: 

Are you securely attached to yourself? 

When it comes to your relationships at work, do you bend over backwards to please others, play it cool and silence your needs, or interact in ways that embody trust and respect for yourself and others? In this new podcast with social worker Sue Marriott , we explore the new science of ‘secure relating’ and how we can hold our own in our relationships. 

Are you ‘safe enough’? 

In this favorite article , Dr. Amy Edmondson explains how psychological safety can help us to feel ‘safe enough’ as we work in teams together. We loved her insights on how when we show each other respect and care, it calms our brain’s threat system and lights up our reward system. 

Good Girl Mindset Survey 

In this new free online survey tool , you can test how your ‘good girl’ beliefs may be driving your need to please and protect others at the expense of your wellbeing and performance at work. It takes just five minutes to complete, and you’ll immediately see your results.  

After all, as Dr. Vikki Reynolds wisely said, “Sometimes the conversations we need to have will make us feel uncomfortable. So instead of striving for a sense of “perfect safety”, we should instead strive for a sense of ‘safe enough’.” 

Warmest wishes, 

Michelle, Katie & Team 

P.S. If you’d like to meet Katie for a free 30-minute psychosocial safety assessment on how your workplace is doing, click here to book a time.