Escaping Our "Thinking Traps" - Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety
As conversations surrounding mental health in the workplace are becoming increasingly commonplace, a leader's role takes on an even greater meaning in an effort to foster a culture of psychological safety. In this session, leaders will discover a defined process to ensure trust, psychological safety, and emotional agility are at the forefront of their teams and organizations to allow for new ideas to succeed, diversity / equity / inclusion initiatives to prosper, and important, vulnerable conversations to occur. In this session, participants will explore five common THINKING TRAPS that can be roadblocks for ourselves and for our direct reports, and discover the ESCAPE ROUTE strategies to empower others to successfully identify and avoid these thinking traps, and allow a culture of psychological safety to thrive.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the five common "thinking traps" where people get stuck most frequently, and practice five communication and trust-based "escape route" strategies to help yourself and others break free.
- Define the concepts of EMOTIONAL AGILITY and PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, and explore the building blocks that allow this to prosper on an individual level and within a team environment.
- Empower team members to speak their minds, and encourage emotional openness from others.
- Design a team environment where trust can thrive, and open dialogue is encouraged.
- Establish a stronger community of like-minded individuals and rising thought-leaders.
In-person session offerings are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is the founder of The Leadership Laboratory, and leverages his experiences in education, the performing arts, and corporate learning & development to his work. As a performer, Jacob has sung as a backup vocalist for musical artists such as Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, and Patti LuPone, as a recording artist for Netflix series Sense8, and at venues including The United Center, The Chicago Theater, and Chicago Symphony Center. In the education space, Jacob has served as an educator for high school, undergraduate and graduate students throughout the Midwest, and has been a Guest Lecturer at Northwestern University since 2016. As a Learning & Leadership Development Consultant, Jacob has worked as a one-on-one coach and group workshop facilitator to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, non-profit, and fashion/apparel. Jacob holds a Bachelor's degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master's of Science in Communication from Northwestern University.