Inclusion and Team Decision-Making: Creating Psychological Safety in the Team

We will explore and practice how team leaders can create an environment for candor and effective team decisions using the guidelines from Google's project Aristotle research.

• Discuss the behaviors
• Discuss connection to "Dialogue" and being conscious of internal dialogue in during team discussions
• Practice in breakouts
• Debrief - What did you notice?
• 2nd breakout - Incorporating different behaviors into our team discussions and decision-making
• Large group debrief and wrap-up

Rich McLaughlin is the CEO and Principal at McLaughlin Consulting Services. Rich has over 20 years of experience helping leaders develop their teams more effectively and find simpler ways to engage employees and tap their wisdom to innovate operations and explore new business opportunities. He has over 12,000 hours facilitating change efforts, new leader assimilations, process improvement projects, and innovation workshops. Rich worked as an instructional designer, change management consultant, TQM training manager and an organization effectiveness manager at Accenture, Square D Company and Baxter Healthcare respectively.

In his consulting practice, Rich works largely with the senior leadership team to create alignment around long-term direction, key metrics, key behaviors needed and steps around engaging rest of organization in the process.