High-Performing Teams
Psychological safety training.
Whether you're seeking to improve team communication, strengthen decision-making, support innovation, manage psychosocial risk, or encourage employees to raise concerns early — this program equips leaders and teams with practical tools to foster open dialogue, constructive challenge, and a strong speak-up culture.
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Behaviour-first. Evidence-based. Built to last.
Practical, behaviour-focused psychological safety training
Practical, behaviour-focused psychological safety training that genuinely strengthens speaking up, collaboration, and decision-making.
Psychological safety is the shared belief that team members can speak up — such as ask questions, share ideas, admit mistakes, or challenge decisions — without fear of embarrassment or punishment.
Research by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson demonstrates that psychologically safe teams are more innovative, resilient, and effective. Google's Project Aristotle similarly identified psychological safety at work as the most critical factor in high-performing teams.
Importantly, psychological safety does not remove accountability. Instead, it creates conditions where honest dialogue, constructive challenge, and continuous learning can occur — improving team performance and organisational outcomes.
In Australia, psychological safety also supports organisations to manage psychosocial hazards and risk factors under WHS legislation and reinforces Respect@Work and Positive Duty obligations by creating environments where employees feel able to raise concerns about bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, or other workplace risks.
Common concerns
"We've had problems blow up before because people didn't feel safe to speak up and admit mistakes or problems."
"Our surveys show that people generally don't feel their ideas are valued by their leaders and withhold the sharing of new ideas because nothing ever changes."
"Exit survey results have highlighted a gap in reporting harmful behaviours."
Programme snapshot
What you need to know at a glance.
Leaders, managers, intact teams, HR and People & Culture professionals, and organisational development practitioners seeking to strengthen team communication, collaboration, and psychological safety while supporting psychosocial risk management.
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What this training covers
What this Psychological Safety Training covers.
You know psychological safety matters for team performance, innovation, safety, and engagement. This training equips leaders and teams to build it through practical, everyday behaviours.
What changes after this training
Real shifts that matter.
Participants gain confidence speaking up, navigating difficult conversations, and encouraging open dialogue within teams. Leaders develop practical tools for responding constructively to mistakes, feedback, and disagreement.
Our methodology
The Practical Capability Model
Every Culture Plus programme is built on the same evidence-based methodology. Hover any step for detail:
Your facilitator
CEO, Author and Principal Consultant
Felicity Menzies
Every Culture Plus engagement is delivered with behavioural rigour and practical relevance by Felicity Menzies — organisational psychologist, author, and specialist facilitator.
- Role
- Founder, Culture Plus Consulting
- Qualification
- Bachelor of Commerce; Bachelor of Arts (Psych) — University Medallist; Fellow, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- Experience
- 15+ years advising leading global and Australian private and government organisations; former senior executive in financial services and consulting
- Discipline
- Organisational psychology, behavioural science & trauma-informed practice
- Published
- A World of Difference (2016); contributor to leading business and HR publications globally
- Recognition
- LinkedIn Top Voice; commendation in NSW Parliament
From the book
Culture is the sum of behaviours leaders permit, model, and reward.A World of Difference — Felicity Menzies →
Free guide
Need psychological safety training that drives real behaviour change?
This guide outlines the conditions that make psychological safety training effective — helping organisations move beyond awareness to lasting behavioural capability.
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Psychological safety training equips leaders and teams with practical skills to create a workplace environment where individuals feel safe to speak up, share ideas, admit mistakes, and challenge decisions without fear of embarrassment or punishment. This training fosters trust, open communication, and continuous learning.
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Build psychological safety capability that lasts
From talking about psychological safety to actually experiencing it.
Equip leaders and teams with the skills to speak up, challenge ideas constructively, and collaborate without fear — strengthening both performance and wellbeing.
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