Leading a team of people has never been an easy task. And with burnout rates skyrocketing and new international codes and local legislation requiring workplaces proactively address the psychosocial (emotional and social) hazards, it’s about to become even more challenging. In this series we set out to find practical answers from the world’s leading researchers.
EPISODE #1 – WHY LEADING OTHERS IS HARD
Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams help you unpack the new psychosocial safety leadership requirements and share the small, practical, evidence-based tools that can not only make the way we work safer, but also supercharge the wellbeing and performance of leaders and teams.
EPISODE #2 – WHICH PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS ARE PRESENT IN YOUR WORKPLACE?
Are you able to confidently spot the psychosocial hazards your team may be facing? Caitlin Ible, an employment law expert from MinterEllison, joins us to provide the practical tips every leader needs to quickly and easily identify and minimize their team’s psychosocial risks.
EPISODE #3 – IS THIS SAFETY GAP PUTTING YOUR WORKERS AT RISK?
Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams share the biggest safety gap their research has discovered in workplaces and how you can avoid this risk for your teams.
EPISODE #4 - HOW CAN YOU BUILD PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY?
Professor Amy Edmondson joins us to share her thoughts on why psychological safety can help us to minimize psychosocial risks in workplaces. She also shares a sneak peek of her new book and provides us with practical tools and real life examples of how we can build psychological safety through a systems lens at the “me”, “we” and “us” levels.
EPISODE #5 - CAN YOU BUILD A CUTURE OF SAFETY AND CARE?
Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams explore the small, evidence-based practices leaders can use to build psychology safety at the “Me” (individual), “We” (team) and “Us” (workplace) levels. Be sure to grab their done-for-you toolkit on the cheatsheet.
BONUS: HOW ARE WORKPLACES PRACTICALLY SUPERCHARGING SAFETY, WELLBEING & PERFORMANCE?
In this bonus episode of Making Leadership Work, Dr. Paige Williams and Dr. Michelle McQuaid share their ‘ah-ha’ moments from their research with more than 1,000 Australian workers, on their levels of burnout, psychosocial hazards, and psychological safety and how this is impacting safety, wellbeing and performance in their workplaces.
