Psychological safety is the belief you can come to work and speak up freely without fear of negative consequences. This session will explore the conditions required for employees and their teams to be able to speak up, ask questions, suggest new ideas, be able to have difficult conversations, agree to disagree and grow, learn, and innovate beyond the status quo. The initial research surrounding the discovery of psychological safety and how it impacted teams in healthcare setting will be presented. The research involved medication errors in a hospital setting and the interesting findings related to nurses had trouble speaking up in their environment. Examples of facilitation can create the conditions for psychological safety to exist, will be provided.

Participants of the session will:

1. Understand the definition of psychological safety.
2. Learn the value of exploring their role in every interaction they have within the team environment.
3. Consider practical strategies to facilitate everyone on the team feeling safe enough to use their voice.