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This half-day training is a comprehensive experience meant to help you build a lasting foundation of psychological safety.

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The 4 stages of Psychological Safety™

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The 4 stages of Psychological Safety™

Engagements for every step of your rollout.

Build momentum with a highly visible pilot program.

Engage senior leadership with data-driven outcomes.

Train your facilitators to scale The 4 Stages internally.

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Make psychological safety an integral part of your culture.

The 4 stages of Psychological Safety™

High-performing teams need 4 things to thrive:

Stage one:

Inclusion Safety

Without a humanity-first foundation of inclusion, your teams will struggle to learn, collaborate, and innovate. But you can’t speak inclusion into existence. Stage 1: Inclusion Safety offers behavioral skills to make inclusion an active choice in team interactions.

Stage two:

Learner Safety

Does your team encourage curiosity or choke it? Do they punish mistakes? Stage 2: Learner Safety equips teams with strategies to increase their learning agility and support each other through mistakes and failure. The goal? Decrease silence and root out fear.  

Stage three:

Contributor Safety

How do you foster the passion and responsibility that engaged employees crave and high-performing organizations need? Stage 3: Contributor Safety teaches teams to operate under the appropriate levels of autonomy and accountability.

Stage four:

Challenger Safety

You can’t speak a speak-up culture into existence. Stage 4: Challenger Safety empowers team members with the skills they need to innovate without friction, amplify all voices, and challenge the status quo.

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Building psychological safety doesn’t happen at the theoretical level.
It happens at the behavioral level.

The 4 stages of Psychological Safety™

Engagements for every step of your rollout.

Build momentum with a highly visible pilot program.

Engage senior leadership with data-driven outcomes.

Train your facilitators to scale The 4 Stages internally.

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Your training enablement partner.

Training goes beyond any initial engagement. When you license The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety™, our team becomes an extension of yours. We’ve developed the roadmaps, facilitator guides, data analytics, and programming insights you’ll need to show senior leaders the measurable impact you have on your organization. It’s all available to you in the LeaderFactor TrainingHub™.

Defining the path to inclusion and innovation.

Written by organizational psychologist Dr. Timothy R. Clark, this book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows leaders how to build a culture of psychological safety in their organizations and create an environment where employees can be vulnerable. With reflection questions and key concept reviews, you’ll learn how to help your teams feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas.

Make psychological safety an integral part of your culture.

The 3 Levels of Accountability™

Employees operate at 3 different levels of accountability:

Level one:

Task-Level

A task is a basic, fundamental unit of work. Tasks are singular and simple in nature and have measurable, standard completion. Someone who operates under task-level accountability needs to be checked on often, closely monitored, and heavily mentored. While learning the tasks of our role is crucial (because the tasks themselves won’t go away), we shouldn’t set up shop at this level.

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Process-Level

We create process-level accountability when tasks can be strung together in a predictable structure or cycle with consistent success or results. How do you know when someone is ready to graduate from task-level accountability to process-level? You’ll know they’re ready once they have a demonstrated track record of performance and a willingness to learn more.

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Outcome-Level

Outcome-level accountability is the destination. This is the ultimate transfer of accountability of ownership. Individuals who operate here feel a strong sense of responsibility for the projects and deliverables that are assigned to them. This kind of autonomy and trust gives team members permission to push boundaries, innovate, and take ownership not just for the tasks at hand, but for their long-term outcomes and effects.

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Engagements for every step of your rollout.

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Training goes beyond any initial engagement. When you license The 3 Levels of Accountability™, our team becomes an extension of yours. We’ve developed the roadmaps, facilitator guides, data analytics, and programming insights you’ll need to show senior leaders the measurable impact you have on your organization. It’s all available to you in the LeaderFactor TrainingHub™.

Teach your leaders how to make accountability craveable.

EQindex™ Public Workshop

Improve your EQ through discovery-based learning.

Upcoming Live Virtual Workshops

LIMITED TO 35 PARTICIPANTS

January 16, 2025

10:00 a.m. EST | Half-day Session

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Key Learning Objectives

Insights that help you interact more effectively with others.

What's inside your digital workbook?

This half-day training is a comprehensive experience meant to help you explore what you believe, what you know, and what you do, all using the assessment and training materials in the EQindex™ platform.

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Pre-work Materials

You’ll receive access to the LeaderFactor platform and your EQindex™ self-assessment   prior to the workshop.

Personalized action planning.

Build a personalized action plan using LeaderFactor’s recommended approach, complete with reflection sections, prioritization, and email reminders.

EQindex™ self-assessment.

EQindex™ is a practical, skill-building approach to emotional intelligence that delivers measurable human impact, not just academic theory.

Supplemental training.

Want to learn more? Refer back to our library of training videos to enhance your learning and refresh your memory.

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Discovery-based Learning

Defining Emotional Intelligence: 30-Minutes
EQ as a Learnable Skill 30-Minutes
Exploring Your EQindex™ Results 60-Minutes
5P Action Planning Process 60-Minutes
The Business Case for EQ: 60-Minutes

EQindex™ Self-Assessment Included with Your Workshop Seat

Meet Your Instructor

Timothy R. Clark is the founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, a global consulting, training, and assessment organization focusing on leadership, culture, and change. Dr. Clark is an international authority in psychological safety & innovation, large-scale change & transformation, and senior leadership development. He has personally worked with more than 200 executive teams around the world.

With a PhD in social science from Oxford University, Dr. Clark is the author of five books, including his best-seller, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation. He has also written more than 200 articles in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. His mantra to leaders is, "Lead as if you have no power."

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Come for the theory, leave with a plan.

We use the momentum gained in the workshop to propel forward lasting change and immediate action for participants.

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety™ Public Workshop

Move from theory to practice with discovery-based learning.

Upcoming Live Virtual Workshops

LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS

April 24, 2025

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Key Learning Objectives

Improve your relationships in every social situation.

What's inside your digital workbook?

This half-day training is a comprehensive experience meant to help you build a lasting foundation of psychological safety.

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Pre-work Materials

Prior to the workshop you will receive access to the LeaderFactor platform and pre-work materials to help you prepare to get the most out of the workshop experience.

Ladder of Vulnerability Self-Assessment™

Vulnerability is a tricky term that requires definition, examples, and self-reflection. This practical assessment will show you what vulnerability is at work.

Personalized 30-day Action Plan

You will leave the session with a customized 30-day action plan based on the combination of your vulnerability-assessment and understanding of The 4 Stages.

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The 4 Stages™ Workshop

The Agenda:
Discovery-based Learning

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Culture By Design: 25-Minutes
Rewarded Vulnerability: 25-Minutes
The Ladder of Vulnerability: 25-Minutes
The 4 Stages Overview: 25-Minutes
Inclusion Safety & Learner Safety: 50-Minutes
Contributor Safety & Challenger Safety: 50-Minutes
Action Plan Debrief: 25-Minutes
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Come for the theory, leave with a plan.

We use the momentum gained in the workshop to propel forward lasting change and immediate action for participants.

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety program was a great learning experience, the approach chosen by Timothy Clark was simple, straight forward and very effective. A good mix of content, theory and examples/cases. I would also highlight the dynamic and open atmosphere of the session, leaving space for interactions, questions and testimonies, making the session a real living one! Understanding each stage in depth, exploring the different behaviors and leader´s role in creating a psychologically safe environment was very powerful.

Alessandra Cavalcante, Partner & Co-Founder GoHuman Consultoria, Brazil

I am very grateful to have ‘found’ Timothy Clark’s book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety – Defining the Path from Inclusion to Innovation. Timothy’s work resonated on a deeply personal level for me– defining and giving me language for behaviors I have experienced and witnessed over the years. It also provided clarity for me on why, despite policies, training, and extensive investment in leadership development programs intended to increase equity and inclusion and improve workplace culture, organizations I have worked in and with haven’t been able to achieve the desired outcomes in a sustainable or consistent way. Timothy’s book held such deep resonance for me. I have no hesitation in recommending and endorsing Timothy’s work on The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety.

Suzie Paceskoska, Executive Leadership and Organisational Coach

As a person responsible in part for implementing leadership development within my organization, I am thoughtful with both my time and the time of teams to which I bring outside counsel and knowledge. It's not really about training, it's about creating a culture rich in aligned values yet differing in perspectives and opinions. The psychological safety workshop offered by LeaderFactor was not only insightful and well worth the time, more importantly it was actionable and had an immediate positive impact. We now use a common framework rooted in trust of one another and we challenge when someone is not living into our aligned values. Simple recommendations made through the workshop are a part of our culture, including getting to know everyone's names and how to pronounce them correctly. Low hanging fruit that had not been on our radar prior. We know it's working too - as new employees onboard, they recount actions of our current employees that left an impression and many of those are from the teachings in this workshop. I think the knowledge we gained has been invaluable.

Bret Giles, Audacious Studios

I whole heartedly recommend Leader Factor’s 4 Stages of Psychological Safety. It is a perfect tool for our particular time because it enables a team, or a department to identify and address the obstacles to helping employees feel included at work. It is straightforward and easy to understand. Leaders, managers and employees can grasp the insights right away. You can actually do something about helping feel included, not just know more about it. I recommend the workshop. It’s one of the most pragmatic and value added opportunities you’ll find to invest in creating a workplace where innovation can become more of the norm and not just an occasional breakthrough.

Brent Chesney, Sr. Organizational Development Consultant

The 4 stage of psychological safety online workshop course is a wonderful way for people to get a change to get a better understanding of the book written by Dr. Timothy Clark. Since Dr. Clark. It gives participants a chance to learn more of what when into the theories found in his book. It also gives participates a change to ask question and get answer from Dr. Clark. The course also give you a chance to speak with other people who are interested in this topic. If you are interested in bring a new level of safety into your company this is an excellent resource.

Tammy Spruill, Lab and Safety Manager Barauch Blumber Institute

Hi I’m Paul Phelan, Head of Leadership Development at Jardine Motors Group – UK. About a year ago I was looking into which skills are key in Leadership, with an aim to bring something new, yet still relevant into the group. Through my research I realized that ‘Psychological Safety’ was making headlines, with both Google and Gallup recognizing this as a key skill in the current times. This got me curious, and it wasn’t long before I came across LeaderFactor, and the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety. I soon bought the book, and this grabbed my attention into wanting to know more about the work of Timothy R Clark and the team. I then attended some of the free virtual sessions, and was hooked even more, I could tell this was something I needed to bring into JMG.The great thing is through my 121 Coaching sessions where I have already started to use the 4 stages, its already growing momentum across the group, which is exciting for us.

Paul Phelan, Head of Leadership Development at Jardine Motors Group – UK.

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