Learn How To Create A Safe Working Environment For Your Team

Improve your team's environment by protecting them from conflict, accepting failure and encouraging a supportive culture

What you'll learn
How you can protect your team from outside interference and issues that might distract them from doing their work
The importance of a psychologically safe environment, within which teams feel supported and protected
Practical steps to set up a safe working environment for your team to be successful and more productive
Improve the quality and safety of a team environment by investing yourself in the people and their future
How competing interests and "politics" can derail a team if they are blamed and need to defend themselves
The importance of creating a team culture that embraces failure rather than fears it or tries to avoid it
How failures can be stepping stones to greater success if teams are given a chance to learn from their mistakes
Don't be neutral in conflict; get into the detail of disagreements about your team's work so you can argue with substance
Be a layer of insulation around your team by understanding what defines the environment and what role you need to play
Encourage and support a unique, self-identifying team culture that reinforces safety and positive interaction
Create opportunities and safe space for experimentation, creativity and innovation
Talk about failure in ways that reinforces how it should be embraced rather than feared
Get requirements into your team as early as possible so they can be as agile as possible
Become a "heat shield" for your team and absorb the heat that comes from external conflict and politics around the team
Use your language to affirm your team as much as possible so that they know you will back them in public and in private
Take risk in supporting a team that doesn't have a track record and needs the space to perform even if they haven't earned it
Ensure that the correct amount of work comes into your team environment so that the team is set up for success
Ensure the right people are on the team or available to the team as additional skills and capacity that they need
Actively develop a team culture that encourages and supports how the team want to work to be successful
Requirements
There are no course requirements
Description
"This course provides valuable insights and vital techniques on how teams can made to be more cohesive by cultivating trust, safety and embracing failure." - Sizwe N."This course taught me so much and I am putting everything I learnt into practice" - Mamello L."It was another great learning experience that I will add on to my work ethics." - Inolofatseng P."great course, learnt a lot about team work/ being part of a team." - Ayanda P.Are you trying to improve your team's success despite lots of conflict and organisational issues around them? Do you wish you had practical steps that can help you insulate them from all the politics? Do you just need some practical steps about what you can do to protect your team from outside interference so that they can get on with their job?In this course you will learn practical ways in which you can improve the psychological safety of your team environment. Learn from international best practice research about why this matters and how you can achieve your goals. This course is geared towards giving you the tools and insights you need in the following ways:One on one lessons that are engaging and insightful to help you achieve the learning outcomesWipeboard lessons that provide an overview of key lessons and insights so you get the bigger pictureAn assignment that brings it all together and gives you a chance to put it all into practiceHandy worksheets that give you a how-to guide and a reference for the critical lessons and insightsA learning pathway through the course in logical sections and lessons that consecutively build your confidence and skill levelThis course is the result of a study of agile teams around the world as well as the experience I have gained in running small teams and projects for over 20 years. You'll get the practical lessons and insights you need to improve your team environment and help your team be more successful.I look forward to seeing you in the lessons.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction To Learn How To Create A Safe Working Environment For Your Team

Lecture 2 Let's Celebrate Your Progress In This Course: 25% > 50% > 75% > 100%!!

Lecture 3 Wipeboard Lesson: Safe Teams Need Insulation, Heat Shield, Embrace Failure

Lecture 4 Introduce Yourself To Your Fellow Students And Tell Us What You Want To Learn

Lecture 5 You've Achieved 25% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 50% >>

Lecture 6 Learn About Team Psychological Safety In Google's Research Into It's Own Teams

Section 2: Learn Leadership Principles & Practices To Create A Safe Team Environment

Lecture 7 Be A Leader That Embraces Failure & Creates A Culture Of Continuous Improvement

Lecture 8 You've Achieved 50% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 75% >>

Lecture 9 Be A Shield That Absorbs "Heat" From The "War Zone" Around Your Team Environment

Lecture 10 Create A Layer Of Insulation Around Your Team Environment To Ensure Safety

Section 3: Assignment: Put What You Have Learnt Into Practice - How To Create Safe Teams

Section 4: Learn From My International Research Into Agile Teams In 5 Different Continents

Lecture 11 [Optional Lesson] Learn About How & Why I Did My PhD Research On Agile Teams

Lecture 12 You've Achieved 75% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 100% >>

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 13 Bonus Lecture

Lecture 14 You've Achieved 100% >> Let's Celebrate! Remember To Share Your Certificate!!

People who want to improve the psychological safety of team environments,Team members, coaches, managers and leaders who want to create safe working environment for teams