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Earlier in the month, we headed back into the classroom to hear from UQ Business School’s Dr Adam A. Kay followed by getting our networking on with a good ol’ fashioned BC Networking Night.
Missed out?
Lucky for you we’re excellent note-takers and we jotted down some key points from Dr Adam’s presentation and have shared them below …
Psychological Safety in the workplace
Dr Adam spoke to the idea of psychological safety in the workplace, which is a shared belief that the work environment is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.
The benefits of employees feeling psychologically safe include:
- Collaboration + helping
- Voice + creativity
- Experimenting + learning
- Trust + team performance
- A leader sets the tone (Edmondson, 1999)
How can you improve Psychological Safety in the workplace? ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Dr Adam told us the best way to improve Psychological Safety in the workplace is through Online Mindfulness Training (OMT).
OMT has numerous benefits including:
- Lowering anxiety and stress (Wolever et al. 2012)
- Improving resilience at work (Aikens et al., 2014)
- Improving conflict management (Kay & Skarlicki, 2020)
- Fostering psychological wellbeing (Kay & Young, 2022)
What is OMT?
OMT can be anything from logging onto your Calm App and losing yourself in a guided meditation or listening to a sleep playlist as you drift off to sleep.
All these things can help contribute to helping you become a mindful leader.
Outcomes of Mindful Leadership
Mindful leadership has been linked to many outcomes, including:
- Psychological health
- Citizenship behaviours
- Deviance + conflict
- Trust in team + leader
- Psychological safety
- Org. commit. + job satisfaction
- Burnout + turnover intentions
- Engagement + performance
- Over-and-above other leadership styles
To learn more about the amazing work UQ Business School is doing, click here!