Thriving Teams
In-house Program Details
Thriving Teams in Healthcare: Building Sustainable, High-Performing Workplaces
In today’s healthcare landscape, fostering thriving teams is essential for delivering exceptional client care and ensuring the well-being of healthcare professionals. At the heart of this endeavour lies the cultivation of psychologically safe environments, robust self-leadership, and sustainable practices.
Michelle’s leadership programs—Psychologically Safe & Thriving Teams, Self-Leadership, and Thriving Sustainably—provide a comprehensive approach to strengthening healthcare teams.
By embedding psychological safety, professionals can collaborate openly, deal with the emotional “wear and tear” of work and perform at their best. Developing self-leadership skills enables individuals to navigate challenges with clarity and resilience, fostering a culture of accountability and strength.
Supporting sustainable practices ensure healthcare professionals maintain energy and well-being, preventing burnout and encouraging long-term job satisfaction and workforce retention.
Together, these programs equip healthcare organisations with the strategies needed to cultivate engaged, high-performing teams in an ever-demanding environment.
Crafting a customised program for your team is one of Michelle’s greatest strengths. As an expert facilitator she can work with you to create an engaging and enlightening program for your team, influenced by your strategic direction and desired outcomes.
By investing in these key areas, healthcare organisations can create workplaces where both professionals and clients thrive, leading to improved outcomes and a more resilient healthcare system.
Just a few of the organisations Michelle partners with
In-house Thriving Team Training Programs
Psychologically safe and thriving teams
When workplace culture is rocky, the health and well-being of your team, the quality of services provided to your clients and the reputation of your organisation are at risk. We offer two distinct but complementary programs to support:
Leading a Psychologically Safe Team – designed specifically for leaders, this course builds confidence and capability to foster a culture of trust, openness, and accountability.
Building a Psychologically Safe Team Culture – a team-based program that strengthens the collective skills, behaviours, and mindsets needed to work together in respectful, safe, and high-performing ways.
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You may wish to train your leadership team or entire workforce on psychological safety depending on your team structure. I have developed two programs to support you in this area:
The Leading a psychologically safe team program ensures leaders understand the key levers required to build and foster a robust and psychological safe workplace and culture.
This program explores
the key components necessary to build a psychologically safe workplace,
the research and contemporary approaches to addressing psychological safety,
the behaviours, values and commitments of senior leadership teams required to “turn the dial” on psychological safety,
the strengths and opportunities for shifting the culture in your workplace,
the 5 critical elements required to support workplace wide intervention.
The Building a psychologically safe team culture program supports the development of optimal culture and teamwork in your workplace alongside a positive ecosystem that enables individuals to perform at their best. It also supports the creation of a sustainable, thriving workforce and individual professional and personal well being.
Research shows that there are many components and skills that help guide teams to function in psychologically safe ways.
In this program Michelle
explores the components of psychological safety,
supports individuals to identify and value their skills and strengths and share them in ways that boost teamwork,
applies neuroscience to enhance working relationships and teamwork,
supports the team to explore how to operate as an above-the-line team and articulate an agreed upon set of behaviours necessary for healthy teamwork.
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At the end of training individuals will:
understand the components of psychological safety
approach teamwork with ownership and self-awareness and, recognise that every interaction in the workplace can build or undermine healthy teamwork, productivity and performance
take personal responsibility for valuing and acknowledging their own strengths and skills, which will in turn enhance their ability to appreciate and acknowledge the skills and strengths of others
be able to build a positive team ecosystem through understanding the neuroscience of good teamwork and the emerging area of interpersonal neurobiology.
Self-leadership
This intensive 1 day Self-Leadership program is essential to supporting your team to drive their own careers by encouraging self-awareness, self-leadership and self-management.
In today’s complex workplace experiencing continual change and challenge, leaders and employees benefit from developing superior self-leadership and self-management skills to maximise their potential and to contribute productively to their team.
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Although familiar with the concept of leading others, leading oneself can be a game-changer.
In this program, Michelle:
shares a practical model for self-leadership
enhances participant’s knowledge of self-awareness, self-leadership and self-management
explores the ramifications of not leading or managing oneself well
presents strategies for increasing personal agency, autonomy and empowerment
applies participant’s shared understanding of how the brain works in order to support the management of conflict and emotional triggers.
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At the end of the training, participants will have
developed their skills in self-awareness, self-reflection, self-leadership and self-management
built a more constructive and values-based relationship with themself
increased skills, knowledge and capacity to support their mental and personal wellbeing and thrive sustainably
improved their awareness of steps to build autonomy and empowerment to deal productively with workload and self-management
explored strategies for increasing personal agency, including greater communication and advocacy
improved understanding of the personal, professional and workplace ramifications of not leading or managing yourself well
improved their ability to apply neuroscience to better manage conflict and emotional triggers of self and others.
“My mind has been racing with new excitement, passion and ideas. This has been the best investment for myself and workplace.
I have embedded the training within myself and team... I have learned more about my individual team members and the productivity has increased as a result.
A happier workplace, psychologically safe, understanding and reflective.”
Thriving Sustainably
This intensive 1 day thriving sustainably program provides professionals with a well-deserved chance to consider their own needs alongside those of their team in order to build practical strategies to strengthen professional sustainability.
It is an opportunity to consider the frameworks that can guide us to deepen self-care, strengthen professional wellbeing and prevent burnout.
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A core component of this program is to address the responsibility workplaces have to create a psychologically healthy environment that supports the wellbeing of the workforce.
This program draws upon evidence-based research and contemporary wisdom from neuroscience about emotional intelligence, strengths and positive psychology, leadership development, as well as stress and energy management and mindfulness. In this program, Michelle will
share language and frameworks with you and your team to support you to identify and reflect on the stressors within your sector and workplace.
explore the Thriving – Surviving – Overwhelmed continuum in order to support participants to achieve and maintain a thriving work-style
examine practical strategies to manage stress, emotional triggers and ways to apply self-leadership to optimise performance
apply neuroscience, neuroplasticity and a strength focus approach to support participants build an optimistic and resilient mindset
explore practical tools for self-assessment and self-monitoring
discuss organisational and contextual factors impacting the health and well being of individuals.
share practical strategies to support teams and individuals to thrive sustainably.
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At the end of training your team will:
recognise the internal/external factors contributing to stress, including burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
understand how to monitor wellbeing and the degree to which we can influence our experiences and take ownership of situations.
have a range of practical tools they can apply in order to
strengthen skills around self-leadership and self-compassion
enhance emotional intelligence and be better equipped to deal with emotional triggers
manage energy levels and build better boundaries and balance around work-life.
navigate unreasonable demands, especially those we place on ourselves
develop an optimistic and strength focused mindset to thrive sustainably.
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Delivery options
Training can be delivered globally online or in-person at your workplace or designated venue.
The length and delivery method of programs can also be customised e.g. 1/2 day, full day, multiple days; training spread over a period of time, webinars (pre-recorded or live); Q and A sessions.