Picture the healthiest team you've ever been part of. Did everyone always agree? Probably not. In fact, the healthiest teams tend to disagree quite often. They challenge ideas, ask thoughtful questions and look at problems from different perspectives. They respectfully debate different approaches before making decisions. What makes those teams healthy isn't the absence of disagreement. It's the presence of respect. Somewhere along the way, many organizations started confu

Welcome to the second instalment of the How Do You Eat an Elephant? series where we're breaking down the 13 psychosocial factors (PSFs) in Canada's National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. In my last blog post, I introduced the Standard and talked about how for many/most organizations, tackling psychological healthy and safety at work can feel overwhelming. There are policies to review, leaders to educate, workplace culture to strengthen and c

How do you eat an elephant? It's an old saying with a simple answer: one bite at a time. I can't think of a better way to describe Psychological Health and Safety management. When leaders first hear terms like psychological risks, psychosocial hazards and psychological safety, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. There seems to be so much to learn, so many moving parts and so many questions. So where do we even begin? The good news is that creating a psychologically healt