Presenter: Catherine Ciano
About: Distributed leadership, also known as shared or self-managed leadership, is a form of team leadership in which the responsibility for directing and managing collective efforts becomes shared among team members. Teams with shared leadership comprise more than 33% of all organizational teams, with 78% of Fortune 1000 companies reporting the use of self-managed teams. Sharing leadership functions across individual team members has the benefit of allowing overseeing leaders to focus more resources on unanticipated novel demands. This exciting trend in team leadership allows increased opportunity for individual team members to engage with improving team processes such as psychological safety. Psychological safety refers to the degree to which ones’ environment is perceived to be safe for interpersonal risk taking. Psychological safety is associated with team learning, improved collaboration across differences, and better organizational outcomes.
This session will demo concepts and tools from the virtual lab course: Enhancing Team Psychological Safety. Attendees will observe and practice specific behavior shaping techniques for the purpose of an improved sense of team psychological safety. This session will be interactive and plans to utilize Zoom breakout rooms. During this session, participants will:
- learn skills to communicate and collaborate with team members more effectively,
- improve leadership abilities, specifically within environments where there is not a single designated leader, but rather when leadership is shared among all members of the team,
- and grow in their ability to make work more inclusive and accessible via cultivation of psychological safety.
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