
Explore how to foster psychological safety and belonging on teams by building inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplaces, with six practical steps and an actionable plan.
Reflect on what inclusion and belonging mean to you and why they matter for your team. Learn how safe, respectful environments and authentic relationships foster psychological safety and belonging.
Learn how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging build on each other, contrast equality with equity, and translate these concepts into inclusive practices that support belonging.
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging boost business success by expanding talent pools, driving innovation, and increasing employee engagement. Establish psychological safety to foster inclusion, belonging, and engagement that boosts performance.
Learn how inclusion relies on psychological safety, enabling teams to propose ideas, voice dissent, and learn from mistakes, with six steps to foster psychological safety.
Master active listening to foster psychological safety on teams by using open body language, eye contact, minimizing distractions, empathizing, clarifying understanding, and rephrasing.
Develop empathy by recognizing the water we swim in and using the ladder of inference to understand others' perspectives before jumping to conclusions.
Foster psychological safety and belonging by learning individual working styles, creating inclusive team norms, and using conversations and personality assessments like MBTI, DISC, and True Colors.
Learn to foster psychological safety by using inclusive decision-making, ensuring everyone's voice is heard, and openly sharing context, airspace, and metrics to empower your team.
Lead with compassion and authenticity by modeling vulnerability, empathy, and inclusive decision-making to foster psychological safety, trust, and a culture of risk-taking, learning from successes and failures.
Turn difficult conversations into brave conversations by preparing with a clear goal and establishing psychological safety through active listening, clarifying questions, and speaking your truth with I statements.
Apply six manager steps to foster psychological safety and belonging, then use Amy Edmondson's simple assessment to gauge team safety through agreement with key statements.
Learn how to move from inclusion to belonging by fostering psychological safety and radical inclusion, so team members feel authentic, trusted, and engaged.
Explore how appreciation differs from recognition and how personalized, specific praise honors individuals’ unique contributions, and recognize that appreciation can come from any direction.
Connect your team to employee resource groups and affinity clubs to share experiences, discuss issues, and build mentorship and sponsorship networks, while managers enable participation with supportive resources.
learn to foster inclusion and belonging on your team by applying six ways to build psychological safety, linking diversity, equity, and inclusion to practical manager action planning.
Have you ever been on a team where you felt included, like you were able to be your true self at work, take risks, and truly grow your career? Being on a team with a shared sense of Psychological Safety and Belonging is a rewarding experience, and often, these teams are also the most productive and innovative. Studies show that when employees feel included in their organization and are able to be their authentic selves at work, they are more engaged and creative, and their organization thrives.
This course is designed for managers to take actionable steps to create Psychological Safety and foster inclusion and belonging on their team. Belonging is personal. It means something different to everyone, but there are practical steps you can take to create the conditions for everyone to belong by creating a shared sense Psychological Safety and inclusion. In this course we’ll cover:
How to manage your team foster inclusion and belonging
Why fostering inclusion and belonging at your company is ongoing work critical to your success
Six steps to building Psychological Safety on your team to foster inclusion
A framework for having brave conversations about inclusion and belonging with your team
Tools and resources to understand what belonging means for all individuals on your team
Doing this work is challenging, but the experience of leading a team with true Psychological Safety and a sense of Belonging is incredibly rewarding. By doing this work, you will set the standard for your team and your organization on what it means to be a good leader.
Are you ready? Let’s get started.