CTO Craft Bytes: It Starts with Trust – Fireside Chat with Michelle McDaid

In this online Fireside Chat, Michelle McDaid and Emma Hopkinson-Spark go further into the subject of Michelle’s article on the CTO Craft blog around trust and psychological safety. 

Highlighting the critical importance of psychological safety in the workplace, particularly within the fast-paced technology industry, Michelle and Emma will look into the implications and impact on a culture where employees fear speaking up, raising concerns, or admitting mistakes. 

What the significant negative consequences, including stifled innovation, unaddressed risks leading to failures, and a lack of learning and improvement can mean for a business and their own experiences of both the positive and negative impacts where trust is at the heart of the workplace issues.

What you’ll learn:

• A deeper understanding of psychological safety in a professional context, beyond the basic definition.
• The link between psychological safety and high-performing teams.
• Practical and actionable strategies for leaders and individuals to build and foster psychological safety within their teams and organisations.
• How to differentiate between healthy debate/disagreement and a lack of psychological safety that leads to silence.
• Methods for encouraging open communication and feedback, even when it involves critical perspectives or bad news.
• The importance of trust as a foundation for psychological safety and how to build and maintain trust within teams.
• The long-term benefits of investing in psychological safety for organisational success and employee well-being.