Certificate Description
DMC’s Certificate program Fostering Psychologically Safe Workplaces focuses on how to lead and transform organizational health & culture.
Our certificate offers psychological safety as an organizational health solution. We specifically developed the certificate for current or aspiring psychologically safe leaders who are or aspire to be responsible for or an influencer of organizational health and safety, disability management, human resources, or people & culture within an organization. You do not need to have a background in psychological safety, as we have ensured that we define and explore key concepts and terms as they arise throughout the course. This certificate builds on your individual psychologically safe leadership skills by helping you foster, communicate, and cultivate psychological safety across your organization.
Learning Goal
Our goal is to help you in developing and generating organizational “buy-in” to psychological safety that is necessary for organization-wide investment and commitment. In this certificate, you will develop knowledge on how to foster psychological safety to lead and transform organizational health & culture within cultural and organizational contexts.
Courses
There are three microcredential courses within the certificate program. Each course will take you approximately one hour. You can register for the full certificate or for individual courses. The three course offerings are:
Understanding psychological safety;
Connecting psychological safety with organizational health & culture; and
Implementing psychological safety.
Learning Content
This certificate is evidence-based, and the content was collated and developed by psychological safety researchers and practitioners.
Throughout this certificate, we will provide you with some perspectives to help ground yourself and your organization in psychological safety.
At the end of this certificate, you will:
be able to understand psychological safety models and the context for psychological safety in Canada.
learn about fostering psychological safety.
learn about generating “buy-in” for psychological safety and how to connect psychological safety to other areas of your business.
explore the connection between psychological safety and culturally responsive workplace practices, organizational change, and trauma-informed workplaces.
have communication and risk assessment tools and resources to help you in your psychological safety journey.
have knowledge and tools to help you cater psychological safety to your organizational goals for organizational and financial health.
Outcome
When you complete all three courses, you will receive a Certificate and a Badge as Certified Psychological Safety Workplace Leader.
Offerings
This certificate course is currently offered as both an e-learning course, and as a virtual facilitated session. Click the boxes below to learn more about both of these offering styles.