Presented in collaboration with the Canadian Innovation Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace
Today’s leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty, rapid change, and organizational complexity. These pressures can unintentionally erode psychological safety, diminish team energy, and increase the risk of harm—even when leaders are deeply committed to supporting their people. Ensuring leaders have the skills to communicate clearly, reduce friction, and model calm self management is essential to protecting the employee experience.
This webinar series is designed for leaders who need practical, immediately applicable tools that reinforce safe leadership practices, strengthen interpersonal confidence, and enhance team performance, building on APEX’s new Positive Leadership Toolkit. Each session is intentionally brief (45 to 60 minutes) to fit into busy schedules while offering actionable frameworks leaders can immediately apply within their respective organizations.
The Setting Yourself Up For Success Leader Series offers leaders brief learning bursts to help them manage complexity without harming themselves, their teams or their colleagues. Each session equips leaders with realistic tools, behavioural clarity, lived experience, and increased confidence to lead with steadiness, compassion, and impact—even during turbulent periods.
Together, these sessions reinforce a leadership model based on the principles of positive leadership, where psychological safety and self-awareness work hand in hand to create teams that are more resilient, more engaged, and better equipped to deliver results.
Safety Signals: What Psych Safety Is (and Isn’t)
Psychological safety isn’t comfort, and it’s not “anything goes.” It’s a work climate where people can speak up, ask for help, and challenge ideas without fear while accountability and standards still hold. This session clarifies what psychological safety truly looks like in practice and how everyday leadership behaviours act as powerful safety signals for teams.
Learning objectives (participants will be able to):
- Distinguish between psychological safety, comfort, and permissivenes.
- Recognize daily leadership behaviours that either strengthen or erode safety
- Use simple, observable actions to create conditions where people can contribute fully
