Content alone doesn't change behavior. The course builds the skill, PSindex® measures where your team stands and re-measures the shift, and the action plan turns it into daily reps in the real work — each piece reinforcing the next, until what your leaders learn becomes how they lead.
Course2 of 4 lessons
Pre-work: measure your baseline
2Culture by design
3What psychological safety is — and is not
4Walking the four stages
Half-day, or self-paced
AssessmentPSindex®
I can raise a concern or admit a mistake on my team without fear of being penalized.
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Baseline + 90-day re-test
Action plan4-day streak
Ask one genuine question before I give my answer in every meeting.
90 days, in the real work
Hours of learning, not weeks of meetings — the change happens in the 90 days after.
What your team walks away with
A shared language your team actually uses to talk about safety.
Managers who can pinpoint the stage a team is stuck at — and the next move.
A PSindex® baseline you re-measure against at 90 days.
Who it's for
Does any of this sound familiar?
Good ideas die in silence.
The room goes quiet when you ask for pushback.
People hide mistakes instead of surfacing them.
Your best people have stopped speaking up.
Last year’s training left no trace.
Engagement scores stay flat no matter what you try.
If you're nodding, this skill is for you.
Built forPeople leaders & managers · L&D and HR · Executives
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety™
The model.
It maps psychological safety as a sequence — each stage has to be in place before the next, from being included to being free to challenge.
Developed by Dr. Timothy R. Clark.
The agenda
What you'll cover.
01
Pre-work: measure your baseline
Before the cohort meets, each participant takes the PSindex® multi-rater assessment and works through self-paced micro-learning to set a starting line.
02
Culture by design
Name yourself as a cultural architect and choose to shape your team's culture on purpose instead of by default.
03
What psychological safety is — and is not
Define safety as a culture of rewarded vulnerability, and clear away the myths that it means niceness, coddling, or a shield from accountability.
04
Walking the four stages
Move stage by stage through inclusion, learner, contributor, and challenger safety, with the behaviors that build each one mapped to your PSindex® results.
05
Avoiding the failure patterns
Spot paternalism and exploitation early, and keep both respect and permission high so dissent and innovation can surface.
06
Action planning and re-measure
Commit to specific behaviors per stage, apply them in the flow of work, then re-take the PSindex® to see the change.
Every cohort takes PSindex® as a baseline and again after — self and external — so you can see the behavior change by dimension, not just course completions.
PSindex® · individual results
73 overall
Baseline90-day re-testself & external
Inclusion safety+9
Learner safety+14
Contributor safety+11
Challenger safety+16
Sample item
I can raise a concern or admit a mistake on my team without fear of being penalized.
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FAQ
Questions buyers ask.
How is this different from a workshop we could build ourselves or buy from another vendor?
It's a system, not an event. You get Dr. Timothy R. Clark's proprietary 4 Stages framework, the validated PSindex® assessment, and a focus on the specific behaviors that build each stage — a sequenced model with a shared language, not a one-off session your team forgets by Monday.
How is this different from the LMS or content library we already have?
Passive content rarely changes behavior. This is assessment-integrated: a cohort experience with application in the flow of work and coaching support, anchored to your PSindex® results so you can see behavior move — not just track course completions.
Will it actually stick?
That's what the measurement is for. Every participant takes the PSindex® up front for a baseline, commits to specific behaviors they practice in real work, then re-takes the PSindex® at 90+ days. You see the change by stage rather than guessing.
Can we run it ourselves, and how hard is facilitator certification?
Yes. We offer a facilitator certification path so your own people can deliver the program at scale, with full materials and guidance — so it doesn't depend on booking our facilitators for every cohort.
How does it scale across the org, and how does it fit our admin and systems?
Deliver it live-virtual, on-demand, or in-person to fit different teams. The assessment and learning run on leaderfactor.app, with org-level reporting so L&D can administer cohorts and track psychological safety across the enterprise.
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