Why Psychological Safety Matters For Change Success with Tanya Heaney-Voogt

How can you make sure your most important stakeholders feel safe enough to genuinely engage with your change program?

Have you ever thought about how the mental health of your organisation impacts the success of your change initiatives?

Today on The New Way podcast we’re diving into exactly that.

I’m talking with author, executive coach, consultant and facilitator Tanya Heany-Voot. Tanya specialises in helping organisations build mentally healthy workplaces through individual, team and enterprise capability uplift and culture change.

In this eye-opening convo, we talk all about why psychological safety matters for change success and how it impacts workplace culture.

This episode is so important because the way we DO change can have a huge impact on the health of our organisation - for better or worse.

Mentally healthy workplaces aren’t just a nice to have - and they don’t come at the expense of productivity - in fact, they are enablers of it.

You’ll discover:

How to identify if your workplace is mentally healthy or not

How to impactfully engage middle managers in your change program (and why this is SO important!)

Why learner safety is so important for successful change programs

The powerful tactic change leaders can use to generate quick wins if they want to transform their organisation into a more mentally healthy one

Gosh, I loved having Tanya on the show to share her expertise and insights. I learnt so much and I know the practical tips she shares will help better set your change program up for success, especially when promoting psychological safety and a positive workplace culture and environment.

Listen in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED AND WHERE TO FIND THEM:

[2:49]: Tanya explains a mentally healthy workplace. A mentally healthy workplace is one that recognises the role the workplace plays in influencing individual mental wellbeing.

[3:59]: The first greeting by the receptionist is an indicator of workplace culture. You can sense the feel of the workplace.

[5:07]: Tanya explores psychological safety in the workplace. An environment where it is safe to speak up, disclose mistakes, contribute and challenge. An environment of rewarded vulnerability.

[7:00]: Timothy R. Clark has a 4 stage model of Psychological Safety. Learner safety is where mistake tolerance is incorporated. We want to make an environment that is safe to learn otherwise people won’t take the risk to learn.

[8:22]: Click to find out more about the Prosci Methodology and the ADKAR model.

[9:44]: Middle managers are integral to any change but are often left out. Psychological safety starts in teams and change leaders need to be open to feedback from middle managers.

[11:32]: Poorly managed workplace change is a very common work-related stress factor.

[14:37]: People are starting to take a chance on a different and new way to invigorate their workforce. However, Tanya is still seeing workplace change pushed out in a “tell” mode which is not conducive to good or successful change and positive work culture.

[16:18]: There is a great opportunity to share openly about change in organisations. Acknowledge when you haven’t always done change well in the past and now we’re going to do it differently.

[20:04]: By telling people what you know up front and when you hope to know more, you can control the narrative.

[20:44]: Where to find Tanya.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Book: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety, Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation by Timothy R. Clark

Prosci: Prosci Methodology

ADKAR: The Prosci ADKAR® Model | Prosci

CONNECT WITH TANYA:

Website: https://tanyaheaneyvoogt.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyaheaneyvoogt/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanyaheaneyvoogt/

Book: Transforming Norm Book - Tanya Heaney-Voogt

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