I lead organisations through the complexity of achieving Psychosocial Safety for their people AND performance.
The difference between Psychological Safety and Psychosocial Safety? Simply put Psychological Safety is when an individual feels safe to speak up, make a mistake, or to ‘be themselves’ in the workplace. Psychosocial Safety is a balance between potential psychosocial hazards impacting their mental health and the strengths of the organisation to help protect them…
Where to start with this might feel daunting for Employers and Leaders. The good news I offer is you are already likely well equipped to effectively deal with this, based on your existing safety and leadership capabilities, and culture.
Here’s the key: don’t just look for what is not working but what is working well. If you just focus on potential psychosocial hazards you are missing out on building upon all the great things you and your teams are doing right! Taking a strengths-based approach not only reduces your risk but boosts productivity and engagement.
You need an effective Measurement approach and model to base this upon real data.
One of the challenges with mental health and your responsibility is to differentiate between peoples lives outside of work and the impacts upon their mental health within the workplace. How can you tell? Building an effective strategy requires an informed understanding of any potential hazards in the workplace, and all the things you do to contribute to positive mental health. It is then possible to assess impacts within the workplace.
The Workplace Psychosocial Safety Questionnaire is built upon a theoretical science-informed framework to be one of the more robust tools in the market to comprehensively measure impacts within the workplace upon your peoples’ mental health – both positive and negative.
The analytics built into this system will also help you deeply understand your psychosocial safety. It is not just an Audit tool like many others available.
It also provides the basis for programs to help your workforce and leaders build their capabilities for consultation and positive change in order to reduce risk, AND importantly boost productivity. Reduce your risk and increase your performance outcomes at the same time.
If you already have other data including Human Synergistics LSI or OCI, or Hogan Personality assessments, I can even help you map these to help your Leaders become ‘Psychosocial Safety Leaders’.
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