Psychological Safety & LGBT Training
Gina Battye provides psychological safety and LGBT training to companies in the UK and US.
This presentation aims to provide an introduction and raise awareness of the importance of creating a psychologically safe environment for your employees.
Content:
- What is psychological safety & why is it essential to create a safe environment
- What affects our sense of safety in the workplace
- Common mistakes
- What do psychologically safe environments look like?
This workshop aims to build on what you learned during the Introduction to Psychological Safety. You will get hands-on and explore the 5 pillars needed to create a psychologically safe environment for everyone in your organisation.
Content:
- Re-cap on what is psychological safety
- Gina Battye's 5 pillars of psychological safety
- Assessment of current levels of psychological safety in teams/the organisation
- Practical guidance on how to embed the 5 pillars into the workplace
- You will develop a robust action plan to implement the 5 pillars of psychological safety into your workplace
This presentation aims to engage and empower senior leaders and C-Suite executives to create and implement a culture of psychological safety and LGBT+ inclusion throughout the whole business.
Content:
- Introduction to psychological safety; what is it; what affects our sense of safety in the workplace; the barriers your employees have to bringing their whole selves to work and the coping strategies LGBT+ individuals develop to function in the workplace
- The role privilege, unconscious bias and intersectionality plays on your organisational culture
- The biggest challenges LGBT+ individuals face in the workplace
- You will develop a robust action plan to engage different areas of your organisation in creating a psychological safe and fully inclusive culture
Do your senior leaders and C-Suite executives feel knowledgeable about LGBT+ issues and challenges in the workplace? Do they have an understanding of LGBT+ life? Do they know the language to use to talk about LGBT+ issues?
This interactive workshop aims to engage and empower senior leaders and executives to create and implement a culture of psychological safety and LGBT+ inclusion throughout the whole business.
Content:
- What is psychological safety; what affects our sense of safety in the workplace and Gina Battye's 5 pillars of psychological safety
- The barriers your employees have to bringing their whole selves to work
- Coping strategies LGBT+ individuals develop to function in the workplace
- The biggest challenges LGBT+ individuals face in the workplace
- The role privilege, unconscious bias and intersectionality plays on your organisational culture
- You will develop a robust action plan to engage different areas of your organisation in creating a psychological safe and fully inclusive culture
Managers are on the front line, dealing with employees. They need to know how to effectively deal with LGBT+ related issues, questions and unconscious bias. They need to know the right language to use, understand the issues LGBT+ individuals face and be empowered to challenge inappropriate behaviour.
This presentation aims to provide the knowledge and tools managers need to support LGBT+ employees in the workplace.
Critically, it will give managers the confidence to have conversations with employees about being LGBT+, the issues the community face and what they can do to support colleagues in the workplace.
Content:
- LGBT+ definitions and exploration of key terms
- The biggest challenges LGBT+ individuals face in the workplace
- Practical guidance on how to support and meet the needs of your LGBT+ employees in the workplace and facilitate discussions around LGBT+ issues in the workplace
- How to positively challenge homophobic, biphobic, transphobic and interphobic language and behaviour when dealing with clients, customers or service users
- How to be an LGBT+ ally
Are ALL your public and client facing staff fully trained on how to be LGBT+ inclusive with your customers? Are they LGBT+ aware in their customer service?
This presentation aims to provide the knowledge and practical skills needed to work with and support LGBT+ customers and service users.
Content:
- LGBT+ definitions and exploration of key terms
- The biggest challenges LGBT+ customers face
- Practical guidance on how to support and meet the needs of your LGBT+ customers
- How to communicate effectively with your LGBT+ customers; what language to use
- How to positively challenge homophobic, biphobic, transphobic and interphobic language and behaviour when dealing with clients, customers or service users
Are you using LGBT+ inclusive language in your day-to-day internal communications (verbal and written), training and business presentations?
How about in your brochures, leaflets, online and offline marketing, advertising campaigns and billboards?
Is the language accessible and inclusive for everyone?
This presentation aims to provide the knowledge and practical skills needed to ensure you are using LGBT+ inclusive language in your business.
Content:
- The impact assumptions and your choice of words have on LGBT+ individuals
- LGBT+ definitions and exploration of key terms
- Understanding gender and sexuality
- Gender specific language considerations
- Avoiding heterosexual bias in the language you use
- Outdated terms to avoid
- Use of pronouns
Are you using LGBT+ inclusive language in your day-to-day internal communications (verbal and written), training and business presentations?
How about in your brochures, leaflets, online and offline marketing, advertising campaigns and billboards?
Is the language accessible and inclusive for everyone?
This hands-on workshop aims to provide the knowledge and practical skills needed to ensure you are using LGBT+ inclusive language in your business.
You will have the opportunity to evaluate a current written document (brochure, leaflet etc) from within your organisation and provide suggestions to ensure it has LGBT+ inclusive language throughout.
Content:
- The impact assumptions and your choice of words have on LGBT+ individuals
- LGBT+ definitions and exploration of key terms
- Understanding gender and sexuality
- Gender specific language considerations
- Avoiding heterosexual bias in the language you use
- Outdated terms to avoid
- Use of pronouns
- Practical activities
Are you thinking about offering new products or services for the LGBT+ community? Or maybe you are wanting to tailor your products and services to meet the needs of LGBT+ consumers?
This presentation aims to provide the knowledge needed to market your product/service to the LGBT+ community.
Content:
- Targeted research: what do the LGBT+ community want?
- Collaboration: developing new products and services alongside your LGBT+ employees
- Product adaption to meet the LGBT+ communities needs
- Your physical environment – is it welcoming to the LGBT+ community?
- The gender binary and how it limits LGBT+ participation in store and online
- Brand imagery and key messaging in marketing campaigns
- Are you reaching LGBT+ consumers with your advertising?
- Campaigns using LGBT+ spokespeople
Are you actively trying to recruit LGBT+ employees?
This presentation aims to provide the knowledge and tools needed to attract (and retain) LGBT+ talent.
Content:
- Unconscious bias in the recruitment process
- The use of language and LGBT+ case studies to attract LGBT+ candidates
- Avoiding bias in the Job Ad
- LGBT+ friendly benefits to shout about
- Advertising methods – online, print and offline. Are you reaching LGBT+ candidates with your advertising?
- Your brand image, company values and reputation
This presentation aims to provide an introduction and raise awareness on intersectionality; what it is, why this is important within a business and how to move from working in silos on the 9 Protected Characteristics to embracing intersectionality throughout your organisation.
Content:
- What is intersectionality
- Understanding different identities
- How does intersectionality manifest in your organisation?
- Common mistakes
- Practical guidance on how to cultivate an intersectional, fully inclusive workplace
TRAIN THE TRAINER
Want to roll out training across your whole organisation but don't want to bring in external trainers?
Do you have a group of internal trainers or facilitators in mind to deliver the training?
But you are not sure where to start with the content and training of these facilitators.
Gina specialises in Train The Trainer programmes for company wide roll out of:
- Psychological safety
- LGBT+ inclusion and
- Intersectionality training
The content will be written bespoke for you and your organisation and a Train The Trainer programme will be delivered by Gina to your selected facilitators.
If you have an existing training programme that you want to update, Gina will review and update this for you. Then provide a Train The Trainer programme to upskill the facilitators on the revised content.
Rest assured. Gina is a fully trained teacher with a PGCE and achieved Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status during her 10 year teaching career. She was presented with an award at the House Of Commons!
She was instrumental in the Teacher Training programme during her career in Further Education. She was an Advanced Teaching and Learning Practitioner where, after delivering years of outstanding lessons herself, she excelled at training teachers to deliver outstanding lessons.
Want to know what training for companies with Gina is like?
Check out the feedback from companies that booked Gina to train their employees below!
"My Go To Person for all matters of LGBT inclusion at work! I had the pleasure of working with Gina twice this year when she delivered an authenticity talk to AstraZeneca's LGBT employee resource group and LGBT inclusion training to AstraZeneca's HR team. I am always impressed by the level of energy and enthusiasm that Gina brings into her work. She leads engaging and informative sessions. She is friendly and approachable and fosters a safe environment for thought provoking and non judgemental discussion. I would highly recommend working with Gina on any topic relating to LGBT inclusion and bringing your whole self to work!"
"Thanks for hosting the LGBT training session. I found it to be really interesting and informative. We are keen to regroup as a team so we don’t lose momentum from your session and we can agree some concrete actions to take forward."
“The AstraZeneca group of companies believes people give their best and are at their most creative when they have a great place to work. We see inclusion & feeling valued as core to that experience. It’s important to me as an HR professional that my function role models inclusivity – after all we are the custodians of an employee’s experience with the company from the moment they think about AstraZeneca as a potential employer until the moment they leave us. Recent research reveals that as many as 83% of LGBT people from multiple organisations don’t feel they can be their true self at work. For us this is unacceptable in a business that believes inclusion is vital. Working with Gina to develop our knowledge, awareness and understanding equips our HR team with some new insights which we can use to influence our culture and practices to visibly demonstrate our commitment and aspiration to being more inclusive.”
“The leadership team of the AstraZeneca LGBT+ employee resource group, recognises that the issues surrounding being LGBT+ in the workplace are complex and not easy to understand without reliable access to contemporary information. We also understand that non-LGBT+ individuals can feel nervous about asking questions for fear of saying the wrong thing. The core purpose of our group is to provide peer support, development opportunities and professional networking for our LGBT+ colleagues. However, we have evolved as a reference point for the business on LGBT+ inclusion, a role we take very seriously. We wanted to achieve a safe space for HR professionals to explore LGBT+ issues and have all questions answered without judgement. We decided to work with Gina after following her work on authenticity. Her collaborative approach to develop and deliver this workshop met our requirements with ease. We achieved a measured improvement in understanding amongst participants with feedback stating a desire to learn more. We are delighted that HR leadership has supported this series of workshops, as it demonstrates a clear commitment to do the right thing, embrace LGBT+ culture and be an inclusive employer of choice.”
"Gina - you are amazing! I think everyone left the session invigorated and I am already seeing posts this morning of how people are energising those who couldn't make it."
"I’m still buzzing from yesterday – what a great day! You were absolutely brilliant. I heard so many people say that your session was the highlight of their day yesterday so thank you for all your work putting it together and running it on the day. It was an absolutely fantastic session, Gina! It was a pleasure to host you and thank you for your inspiration. This is not the end of the conversation on authenticity, just the start."
"Gina is a great trainer and a lovely lady, She kept 20 busy senior leaders fully engaged for 3 hours at the end of a long day on an important topic."
"I had the pleasure of opening an awareness session for colleagues on being your authentic self at work, which Gina kindly delivered for us. The session was very insightful and engaging, and the feedback from delegates was really positive. It definitely gave us an appetite for more understanding on this topic, which is something we’re now planning to take forwards. I’d thoroughly recommend Gina."
"Gina recently hosted a session for us around being your authentic self in the workplace. Inclusion creates a culture where people can come to work & be their true self, feel celebrated & supported & perform better. Our colleagues who attended left feeling inspired & more engaged with the business & Gina kindly offered colleagues a follow up session free! The feedback we had from colleagues has been amazing & we are hoping to do more work with Gina in the future. Any business serious about Diversity & Inclusion would aim to create a culture where people can perform & be their personal best. This was a great session on the journey to achieving that."
"OMG!!!! Your session was just wonderful. I said that I thought you were genuinely amazing and a member of my team said, “that’s because she is amazingly genuine”!! I loved the layout, the time and energy that you put into the simplicity of the terminology and that you spoke to it with integrity and care. We are so thrilled to have had this opportunity and you will be happy to know that after our session, our team conversation stayed on topic. We had people share that within their own families they have gay and transgender family members and that they were so thankful to have been able to gain more insight."
"Inspiring and informative session! Thanks Gina! You have given us a lot to think about to ensure we keep moving the dial around inclusion."
"I wasn’t sure what to expect today but you ran a truly inspirational session Gina. Well done for keeping us to time as well - we are a passionate bunch in the HR department."
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WHY WORK WITH GINA?
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A trusted resource and expert voice for the BBC, global press and leading LGBT+ and mainstream magazines, Gina is called upon worldwide to deliver her insights, training and specialist knowledge.
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Unlocking creativity, deepening the connection between employees and bringing ALL of you to work Gina supports your company to reach its strategic objectives fast.
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Gina Battye has helped teams all around the world unleash the highest potential of their people and develop employees to bring all of who they are to work.
Gina Battye Is A World Renowned Psychological Safety Consultant, Trainer & Speaker
Gina Battye is a world renowned consultant and trainer for multinational corporations, Fortune 500s + Leading Global Organisations, TV, Film, Theatre, Radio and the Global Press.
Gina is called upon worldwide to deliver her insights, training and specialist knowledge.
Quite simply, Gina works miracles with everyone that crosses her path.
When everyone in your organisation feels able to bring all of themselves to work, the impact on inclusion, productivity, creativity & innovation is HUGE.
Gina is a passionate and knowledgeable psychological safety and LGBT specialist who delivers unique and powerful consultancy and corporate training worldwide. Gina creates breakthroughs every day for employees and C-Suite executives on a global scale.
She has helped teams all around the world unleash the highest (untapped) potential of their people and develop employees to bring all of who they are to work.
