Building a Healthy Workplace Culture: Having Difficult Conversations

Staff at human and social services organizations are facing stress, change, and conflict on multiple levels. Vicarious trauma and the socio-political climate are contributing to staff feeling drained and disengaged.

This six-part webinar series will equip staff and leaders at all levels with foundational mindsets, knowledge, and skills to help themselves and their colleagues prioritize well-being at work, manage through uncertainty, and handle conflict with compassion. Through presentations, self-reflection, and interactive discussions, participants will learn about core mindsets and strategies rooted in neuroscience that can help them build a healing-centered organizational culture.

Each session will offer key concepts and practical application tools for participants to apply to their daily work and interactions with colleagues.

• Regulation Strategies for Staying Well at Work: Jan. 22, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
• Executive Functioning Skills: Feb. 26, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
• Having Difficult Conversations: March 26, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
• Healthy Boundaries and Expectations: May 28, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
• Psychological Safety, Accountability, and Support: July 23, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
• Self-Compassion: Sept. 24, 1-1:45 p.m. ET

Having difficult conversations is an essential leadership skill. Effective leaders must be equipped to provide feedback productively, work through disagreements, reflect on challenges, acknowledge feelings, invite feedback, and apologize. In this session, participants will learn research-based strategies to prepare for, initiate, and stay engaged in difficult conversations.

Takeaways

• Brain science concepts, strategies, and tools to increase well-being and resilience in the workplace
• Awareness of executive function skills and how to strengthen them
• Strategies for having difficult conversations
• Tips for communicating expectations and setting healthy boundaries
• Leadership strategies for increasing psychological safety in the workplace
• Key concepts to deepen self-compassion and connection at work

Who Should Participate

• Managers and supervisors
• Executives and senior leaders
• Direct service staff
• Human resource staff
• Staff with responsibility for equity, diversity, and inclusion