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Amplifying Voice: Fostering a Speak-Up Culture

Communication & Collaboration
Communication & Collaboration
All Levels

When individuals have a sense of psychological safety, they can voice their best ideas, take risks, and learn openly from mistakes – benefiting team decision-making, shared learning, and innovative outcomes. In this workshop, we share specific examples of barriers to voice and psychological safety and offer actions participants can take to mitigate them: by finding their own voice, amplifying the voices of others, and contributing to teams and organizations where a diversity of voices are heard, respected, and valued.

Training Includes:

  • Research
  • Self Reflection
  • Discussions
  • Activities
  • Action Planning

Learning Objectives

Participants will leave with an understanding of:

  • Benefits of – and barriers to – amplifying voice and fostering psychological safety at work.
  • Actions each person can take to foster voice at every level in an organization.
  • Individual, team-level, and organizational strategies to create a culture of voice and psychological safety.

And the confidence and skills to:

  • Create a psychologically safe environment where people’s voices are heard, respected, and valued.

Formats Offered

  • In-Person or Virtual Workshop
  • In-Person or Virtual Keynote
  • Reach eLearning Course
  • Reach eLearning Microlearning

High-Level Outline

Introduction

Share the science of voice and psychological safety, and discuss the benefits of creating an environment where people feel safe to speak up.

Fostering Voice as an Individual

Consider key barriers to voice that are influenced by individual speaking, tone, and interruption patterns.

Action planning: Reflect on your own communication style, and identify actions that amplify voice for others.

Fostering Voice as a Team

Explore how geographical and language differences influence communication norms and who gets credit for ideas.

Action planning: Create team communication norms and determine how they will be reinforced.

Fostering a Culture of Voice

Understand how an organization that fosters psychological safety encourages dissenting opinions, sharing mistakes, and a sense of belonging.

Action planning: Make space for ideas that challenge the dominant perspective and encourage alternative approaches.

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Why Paradigm?

Paradigm empowers organizations to create high-performance workplaces where everyone can do their best work.

56 %

Increase in job performance

50 %

Decrease in Turnover risk

75 %

Fewer employee sick days