Psychological safety in teams - 0.5 day - Dutch - Wetteren
Strong teams are created where people feel safe to speak, learn, and improve.
In this half-day training, participants discover what psychological safety really means: a work environment where people feel safe to admit mistakes, share ideas, and speak up without fear of blame or shame.
Target audience
- Team leaders, foremen, managers, and project managers
- In manufacturing, technical, or construction environments that want to create an open, learning, and respectful team atmosphere
Results
- Understanding what psychological safety is—and what it is not.
- Insight into how it increases teams' learning ability, collaboration, and performance.
- Concrete tools for managers to strengthen openness and trust.
- A personal action plan to make your own team safer and stronger.
Practical
- 1/2 day
- Interactive session with reflection, case discussions, and mini role-plays.
- Tools: psychological safety self-test, observation card for managers, action plan.
- Real-life cases from production and construction environments.
- Feedback and concrete points for improvement after each exercise.
Program
1. What is psychological safety?
• Understanding Amy Edmondson's model: safety × accountability = team performance
• Difference between psychological safety and trust.
2. The building blocks of psychological safety
• Openness – space to speak without fear.
• Respect – valuing each other, even when opinions differ.
• Learning from mistakes – from blame to learning opportunity.
• Shared responsibility – everyone contributes to a safe atmosphere.
3. The role of the manager
• The leader as the tone-setter for the climate
• “Framing the work”: how to position tasks and problems as a joint learning assignment.
• “Inviting input”: actively asking for ideas and feedback.
• Responding productively: how to respond to mistakes or criticism without defensiveness.
4. Integration & action plan
• Summary of insights: the three habits of psychologically safe teams.
• Personal action plan: concrete behaviors to apply immediately.
• Reflection: “What would change in our team if everyone felt free to speak up?”
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Different instances can give a subsidie to follow this training.
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