Building Block 4: Leadership

Create an Action Plan

Here you’ll find everything you need to create your Action Plan for Building Block 4: Leadership

Begin by reviewing your Current State Assessment score. Next, watch the webinar and read the related information and tips. Finally, create an Action Plan customized to your organization’s needs.

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Current State Assessment of Key Performance Behaviours (KPBs)

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Watch the Webinar

Purpose of Webinar

This webinar explains how Building Block 4 helps you influence and promote psychologically safe leadership. It follows the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.

Tasks from Webinar

  1. Determine which factors influence psychologically safe leadership
  2. Develop a strategy to facilitate psychologically safe leaders
  3. Identify an approach that best fits your current capacity, budget and timeline

Download Worksheets and Tools

This worksheet will help you create an inventory of factors for facilitating psychological leadership and track whether you’ve considered them formally, informally or not at all. Current Inventory Checklist

This worksheet provides self-reflection activities for leaders to help manage their mental health. Leaders can do a simple check-in to identify their emotions, challenges and coping strategies. Self Management Worksheet

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Your Support Action Plan

Tips from WSPS Consultants

  • When identifying training topics for your leaders, consider the following: peer coaching, communication skills, emotional intelligence, inclusion and diversity, resilience and self-care, supportive performance management, conflict resolution and crisis management, accommodation and return to work.
  • Remember that key behaviours of a psychologically safe leader can include: communicating respectfully, creating an inclusive environment where people can express their opinions, remaining calm under pressure, acting with authenticity, stepping up during difficult times, developing and maintaining trust, listening without judgment, getting to know team members and building strong working relationships.
  • Create a leadership philosophy that defines behavioural expectations for all leaders.
  • Incorporate psychological safe leadership competencies into leader selection processes.

Potential Action Items

Train Leaders in the Basics

Ensure all leaders have basic training to understand the difference between mental health and mental illness, their role in building resilience, their duty to inquire and how to support employees during sensitive conversations.

Determine Leadership Support Opportunities

Determine what kind of support leaders need to become psychologically safe leaders, such as training, coaching and/or mentoring.

Evaluate the Effectiveness of Leaders

Providing leaders with feedback on how psychologically safe they are is a useful way for them to uncover blind spots. Help leaders develop action plans to close any gaps, and celebrate success.

Create Your Action Plan

Use this interactive tool to create your customized Action Plan for Building Block 4. Define your goals and objectives, plan your activities, and view and monitor your Action Plan.

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Additional Resources and Tools

13+ Workplace Factors Toolkits

There are 13+ workplace factors that can contribute to a psychologically healthy and safe workplace.

Many factors influence Building Block 4, but here are some workplace factors to start with:

Speak with a WSPS Mental Health Consultant

Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) offers psychological health and safety consulting services. See how our specialized consultants can help support your journey today.

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