Can You Make it Safe to Struggle? Podcast with Adam Fraser
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Release Date: 06/02/2021
Addressing Inadequate Reward & Recognition
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
At our core, we all have the same basic psychological needs for respect, value, and appreciation. Yet, the diversity in how, when, and where we would like these needs to be met can make the task of ensuring adequate rewards and recognition challenging. But regular informal feedback and formal development reviews can make all the difference. Find out how. [00:38] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing inadequate reward and recognition in their workplaces.\ [1.18] Paige and Michelle explore why lack of reward and recognition...
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Improving Low Job Control
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
We all have certain tasks we dread at work. Unfortunately, doing well in our jobs often hinges on our ability to handle these mundane tasks as proficiently as the more interesting ones. Despite our best efforts to make work more engaging, low job control can make tasks more tedious than they need to be, but five simple job crafting questions give us more freedom? [00:39] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing low job control in their workplaces. [2:34] Paige and Michelle explore why lack of job control isn’t just about...
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Minimizing Lack of Role Clarity
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
When it comes to completing our work, we all want to do well. Succeeding, however, depends on us having a clear set of expectations and measurable outcomes that deliver value for our team, clients, and organization. Despite clear communication, the complex and dynamic nature of our work can result in a lack of role clarity, but could a dynamic job description template could deliver the flexibility we need? [00:40] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing lack of role clarity in their workplaces. [03:10] Paige shares why role clarity...
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Navigating Unachievable Job Demands
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
A never-ending to-do list with no breaks in sight, a lack of the right training and support, and long, irregular, and unpredictable working hours can leave people feeling anxious and overwhelmed. The risk of unachievable job demands can be hard to navigate, but what if a simple job demands journal made it easier to see and prioritize? You'll learn: [00:15] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing unachievable jobs demands in their workplaces. [03:00] Michelle shares why the hazard of unachievable job demands is more than just...
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How are workplaces practically supercharging safety, wellbeing & performance?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
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. You'll learn: [00:39] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings that suggest two-thirds of Australian workers are experiencing burnout. [07:01] Michelle and Paige discuss how burnout is having an impact on psychosocial hazards. [11:44] Paige shares...
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Can You Build A Culture Of Safety And Care?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams explore the small, evidence-based practices leaders can use to build psychological safety at the “Me” (individual), “We” (team) and “Us” (workplace) levels. Be sure to grab their done-for-you toolkit on the cheatsheet. You'll learn: [00:39] - Michelle and Paige explore how psychological safety can minimize psychosocial risks. [02:27] - Paige explains what a Culture of CARE is. [05:17] - Michelle and Paige discuss how the CARE Culture positively impacts on workers. [14:51] - Paige explains why CARE practices help to foster...
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How Can You Build Psychological Safety?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
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. You'll learn: [02:21] - Amy explores reasons why learning from mistakes is easier said than done. [09:01] - Amy discusses the impact of psychological safety on psychosocial hazards. [13:40] - Amy talks about the benefits and risks of...
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Is This Safety Gap Putting Your Workers at Risk?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Dr. Michelle McQuaid and Dr. Paige Williams share the biggest safest gap their research has discovered in workplaces and how you can avoid this risk for your teams. You'll learn:[01:09] - Michelle and Paige discuss why identifying risks is just one part of the solution. [08:50] - Michelle and Paige explore what is missing when you only measure psychosocial risks.[23:18] - Michelle and Paige discuss the safety gap.[27:36] - Paige discusses the systems approach to wellbeing, at the ‘Me, We and Us’ level.[33:43] - Michelle and Paige explore the importance of psychological safety and ways to...
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Are Psychosocial Hazards Present in Your Workplace?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
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. You'll learn: [02:47] - Caitlin explores the differences between psychosocial hazards and risks. [04:43] - Caitlin discusses the Work Design hazards. [09:56] - Caitlin explains Social Support hazards. [17:05] - Caitlin discusses Work Conditions hazards. [20:32] - Caitlin discusses Work Experience hazards. [25:55]...
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Why Leading Others is Hard.
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
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. You'll learn: [01:42] - Michelle and Paige discuss the difference between psychosocial safety and psychological safety. [04:12] - Michelle and Paige discuss what has led to workplaces needing psychosocial hazard legislation. [11:25] - Michelle and Paige discuss the costs of mental health in workplaces and society....
info_outlineIn this episode, Dr. Paige Williams chats with Dr. Adam Fraser, who shares insights around being more value-driven, by reframing your relationship between thriving and struggle. Adam shares how struggle can actually be a benefit to our learning and growth and guides us through four practical steps we can take to get more comfortable with struggle.
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