This is all about building a stronger, more supportive community at work!
The speaker opens with greetings and notes they are broadcasting from a different location at an ACE leadership event. This orients viewers and sets a friendly tone before the main topic.
The presenter discusses current busyness from onboarding and event planning, then shares how values from a previous job made them feel safe to be authentic. This establishes why psychological safety matters to the speaker.
The speaker introduces the concept of psychological safety using a Simon Sinek interview, emphasizing that admitting you don't understand fosters a safer environment. Listeners learn why saying 'I don't know' or asking for clarification helps create shared openness.
The presenter gives examples for building safety: asking colleagues what they need, offering walks or coffee, noticing signs of stress, and inviting feedback. These actionable tips help viewers support coworkers and create comfortable spaces.
The speaker points to tools like Cadre and Headspace, mentions training and the importance of practicing vulnerability, then closes with encouragement to create safe spaces. This wraps up with resources and a call to action.
Hello, Cadre Sphere. Hello, hello. Welcome. Come on in. Enter. Say hello. I'm excited to see you. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited you're here. I am actually in a different space today, as any of you that have joined me before can see. I am currently at a ACE leadership event for the company that I work for and they are doing some presentations this afternoon. So hello Laura 3817. Welcome. I'm not in my typical spot when I visit you all, but I am here today. I'm excited that you're here. My word of the day today is busy.
It's been a while in my job search that I can say that I'm really busy. I have a lot going on. I am busy still onboarding a little bit. I'm busy planning an event that's coming in November. I'm busy taking on a whole bunch of new challenges. There's a lot going on in my world and sometimes busy can kind of equal stress, right? So that's why I was excited to come in and chat with you all today, just about some of that that I have seen and experienced in my time, not only onboarding into a new role, but also in all of my previous experiences as I'm sure many of you have had those same either workplace or personal experiences in terms of the stress and the anxiety that can come with a variety of different things.
Yesterday I was sitting at my new desk and I was thinking about the values that came from my old job and I actually took some time and I wrote them down and I stuck them on the corner of my desk and the reason that I did that was because I felt really safe in my old job and I felt safe to say I was stressed out, to ask for help when I needed it, to admit my mistakes, to ask for feedback, and Not that I don't feel safe here, right, obviously, but I felt like those values really sat with me and really were part of why I felt so safe to bring my authentic self to work.
And so I wanted them as kind of a reminder that that can be created pretty much anywhere. I was watching a Simon Sinek interview. It was just a short YouTube video interview, and it was around a circle of safety and circle of safety kind of in regards to psychological safety. For those of you that have not heard of that or know about it, it really is just creating, psychological safety is creating a safe space for people to be able to speak up, to ask for feedback, to admit mistakes, and have it be okay, right, without any negative consequences.
And so that video really resonated with me. And one of the things that he talked about, and you can look it up, Simon Sinek, S-I-N-E-K, on YouTube, but one of the things that really resonated with me in terms of psychological safety was really just being confident in saying that you don't know something. And that sounds odd in some ways, but the way he kind of phrases it is, you know, if somebody says to you, do you get it? Do you understand? And you're like, maybe a little kind of. I don't. not sure if I understand or not.
But if you raise your hand and you say, you know, I'm not technically savvy and I really don't understand what you're saying, can you just bring it down so I can get the gist of what you're saying and you sound a little bit more confident in asking for that and admitting that you might not know exactly what that person is saying or exactly what that person is trying to portray in the conversation, that can create a little bit more of that circle of safety where other people might start to buy into that and say, you know, I'm so glad you said something because I I didn't really understand that either, but I was kind of afraid to admit that I didn't know.
And I think a lot of times, especially when we go into new roles and new opportunities, that's a huge piece of it. You don't know everything when you start a new job. You don't know everything when you've been in your job for 10 years or 15 years. But it's really creating safe spaces for people to be able to be themselves and to say, I don't get it. Can you give me feedback on that? I don't feel like that went all that well, and I really want some feedback on that. And I think some of the things that I try to do when I start building new relationships, whether that's in the workplace or whether that's personal, is really ask people, right?
What are some things that... you need support on when I can tell that you're really busy or you're stressed out or your anxiety is high. What are some things that I can do to help support that? And I think that also creates a safe space for people to come to you and say, hey, I really need a break. Can we go for a walk? Yeah, let's go for a walk, right? Even recognizing it in other people, especially people that you work with, if you see that they're fluttering about and maybe letting out big puffs of air, or their physical appearance seems off, or they're late a lot, or they're absent a lot.
Some of the things you can do is just go ask. What do you need support with? What can I help with? You want to go for a walk? You want to go grab coffee? Let's take a break, right? Let's just walk down the street and see what's happening at the coffee shop or let's go out for lunch, right? And I think that can really help people feel comfortable bringing themselves to the spaces that you're in. And I think also Using resources, right, sharing resources. Cadre is an example of those resources. Headspace, for those of you that know Headspace, that's a great space for meditation and mindfulness and focus and exercises in that space where you can kind of get refocused or recentered, if you will.
There's tons of different resources for workplace mental health. There's great resources to help support not only yourself but your coworkers, right, and really being able to take that and really think about what are the ways that you all can support one another in the workplace. I said, you know, one of the things that I used to do in my old job was do some training around psychological safety and that was really creating tools for people to be able to implement when they landed in an opportunity or a new job and being safe to feel or feeling safe to be able to do that.
And I think that's really important and sometimes it is. It's practice, right? It's really practice of going in spaces and also being vulnerable and saying, hey, this person over here, I don't get it. And I need you to re-explain that in a different way, or I need you to clarify some questions that I have. Not only does that help you, but it helps others in those spaces. So I encourage you to think about some of those things as you're going in. I'd be a huge resource for you. If you need anything in that space, I can certainly help.
But I think really making sure that you are creating those circles of safety around the people that you are either working with or that you're interacting with in different ways, whether that's volunteering or an education or your personal relationship. I'm happy that you're here. I am thrilled to be able to come to you every single week and have conversations that, as I've said before, really help me as well reflect on some of the things that are some of the ways that I'm showing up. So I appreciate you all.
I think you all are amazing. Take care, be well, and go create some safe spaces for others. Bye everybody. Have a fantastic afternoon and get out and enjoy some sunshine if you've got it where you are.
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