Psychological Safety

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If you worked for an organisation that wanted staff to have psychological safety and the workplace was full of rainbow lanyards and pronouns in emails how would you challenge it? Is there a way to advocate for the psychological safety of women who want access to single sex toilets in the office?

I think I’d start by looking for the policies that discuss the business goals in this area. If there are none how this has been communicated to the business.

once you know the goals you can use their own language to raise a challenge should you wish.

so, if the goal is “to provide a psychologically safe workspace so all team members can bring their whole self to work” you immediately have your ‘in’ as you are having to be secretive in an environment of rainbow washing and all that goes with it.

Which staff get psychological safety? Because if it's all staff they've kind of got themselves in a mess there.

If it's only some staff with an expectation that other staff can suck it and just get on with being psychologically unsafe while providing unpaid for services and enablement to other staff? That's not going to fly well either in an employment tribunal.