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Facilitation Masterclass
Building Psychological Safety in Meetings

On Demand Recording

In today's fast-paced and diverse workplace, creating an environment where team members feel safe to express their ideas, take risks, and be open is crucial for effective collaboration and growth. Psychological safety in meetings is key to developing a productive and inclusive team culture. How can leaders cultivate this environment to ensure everyone feels heard and valued?

Watch this on demand recording to learn the principles and practices of building psychological safety in meetings. You'll gain practical insights to transform your meetings into supportive spaces that encourage open dialogue and drive team success.

Why This Webinar is Essential:

  • Empower Every Voice: Every team member is responsible for the meeting’s success, as they are empowered to contribute to a successful experience.
  • Encourage Creativity: Create a safe space where new ideas and risk-taking are welcome, leading to better solutions.
  • Build Trust: Develop strategies to build and maintain trust within your team, which is essential for high performance and collaboration.

Key Skills You'll Acquire:

  • Active Listening Techniques: Improve your ability to truly hear and understand your team members.
  • Inclusive Leadership: Learn techniques to run meetings that include and respect diverse perspectives.
  • Effective Facilitation: Gain skills to guide discussions in a way that promotes psychological safety, ensuring everyone can participate.

Featuring:
Andrew Black, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates

Eve Keller
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates

The Impact of IA Facilitation Training

"I left with a new perception of what effective facilitation is, including a newfound appreciation for its challenges and opportunities. Interaction Associates helped me identify a variety of growth opportunities and will enable me to be a more effective facilitator when dealing with high-impact engagements and everyday relationship management alike."

- Leader at a Strategy & Communications Firm

About the Featured Panelists

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Andrew Black Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates

Andrew is an Organization Development (OD) expert, helping companies develop increased capacity to fulfill their missions. His special talent is to mobilize groups toward critical business-focused outcomes. He has extensive experience as a facilitator of complex, high stakes meetings and trains other consultants to develop their facilitation skills.

Andrew is a masterful group facilitator and in-person and virtual classroom learning leader. Since joining Interaction Associates, he has also held senior leadership responsibilities and contributed to our instructional design by developing courses in teamwork, meeting management, coaching, e-learning, and web-based program design. Other areas of expertise include leadership development, strategic planning, values clarification, and team building.

In addition to his work as a consultant, Andrew is an accomplished playwright and has had several plays produced across the United States. This creative work helped develop his expert storytelling skills and powers his ability to develop compelling narratives in the service of business outcomes.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV from Indiana University, a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from San Francisco State University, and a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from Ohio University. In May of 2023, Andrew completed his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Andrew's extensive client experience includes engagements with AT&T, Apple, Genentech, Sephora, DuPont, Pacific Gas and Electric, Nordstrom, The Gap, UC-SF, and KPMG.
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Eve Keller
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates

Eve enjoys putting all her education and training experiences into an organization that values the human experience, while helping individuals and large organizations globally work better together. 

Prior to joining Interaction Associates, Eve supported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) federal contract as a HighPoint Global Project Manager. She also assisted HighPoint Global's successful move toward CMMI Level-2 certification as an audit team member.

Eve is determined to leave a mark on this planet in pictures and words. She volunteers within her LGBTQIA+ community on the Board of Directors for Indy Pride in Indianapolis and as a Regional Director for InterPride, helping to empower Pride organizations worldwide.

Eve has two favorite IA practices, which focus on alignment during meetings (hint: the key is awareness). Building agreements is foundational to collaboration, but we rarely take the time to “check for understanding” before moving on to the next topic. She always evaluates the dimensions of success in meetings: Results, Process, and Relationships.

Eve holds a BS in Education from Tennessee Temple University, and a Certificate in Instructional Design from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.