Skills for Psychologically Safe Leadership (June 14, 2022)

Presented by: Jordan Friesen 

With levels of stress, fatigue, and burnout at all-time high across the Canadian workforce, including the health sector, occupational therapists who lead teams can play an important role in fostering psychological health and psychological safety to support resilience.

This webinar will provide an overview of psychological safety as it relates to leadership behaviours. This webinar will describe the development of the psychological safety, explore common barriers to creating psychological safety in teams, and review a selection of leadership behaviours that help create team psychological safety.

After taking part in this webinar, participants will be able to: 

1. Define psychological safety and recognize its importance to effective team functioning.
2. Identify leadership practices that support psychological safety within teams.
3. Reflect on current leadership practices and identify areas for development.

Level  Intermediate (3-5 years of experience in this specific practice area)

Area of practice  Fieldwork/Education, Leadership and agency, Role-Emerging, Service/Business Administration, Workplace Health & Safety 

Client age group Adults (20-64 years old) 

Language English

Please note that you will have access to the On-Demand Webinar for a period of one year or until the webinar expiry date listed in the CAOT Store, whichever is sooner. The terminology used in this webinar is reflective of the CAOT Style Guide at time of the webinar.