Managing: social safety in daily practice

In this 1-day training we focus on knowledge and skills in the area of three components of social safety:

1. In the team: theory and prevention

Knowledge
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Social and psychological safety
- Responsibilities of manager/supervisor (example, acknowledge, recognize, how to talk about it)
- Factors that (may) promote unsafe situations
- Signal, report, complaint (informal, formal, actors, anonymous)

Skills
- How to make it discussable team-wide (form, content, intercultural, what makes this so difficult, toolkit)?

2. Intervention: practical tools and instruments

Knowledge
- Where can I find guidance on what to do?
- Other tools

Skills
- What do I say, what do I do when a situation is presented to me (case study, practice with actor)
- Make it bigger than yourself. When and how to escalate?
- Aftercare

3. Being a manager: dealing with one's own vulnerability

My own feeling of unsafety, what does it do to me?
For example, a (justified) reproach (in an R&D interview):
- that an employee feels socially unsafe at the feedback given
- that one’s own behaviour or remarks led to an unsafe situation

(Practice cases with an actor, possibility for peer consultancy, form, content, help)

After completing this training:

• you know how to address social safety within your team;

• you have more knowledge of regulations and tools in this field;

• you know how to have a conversation with those experiencing an unsafe situation;

• you are aware of your tasks and responsibilities as a manager related to this topic;

• you are aware of your own position and you are able to reflect on your own behaviour. 

This training contributes to the development of leadership roles in the areas of personal, individual and group leadership. Please, also read the UG vision on leadership and here you will find more information about the skills expected of you within this vision of leadership and the corresponding various leadership roles. The training also contributes to the aims of social safety within the UG.

Competences: (based on UFO and UG Image board on leadership) 

• Unifying leadership
  setting an example

  understanding group dynamics

• Communicating
  listening
  asking questions
  dialogue skills

• Organizational awareness
  being alert to signals
  acting based on the situation
  understanding differences between people, 

• Empathy skills 

• Self-reflection