{"id":420,"date":"2021-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/reports\/leadership-skills-series-giving-difficult-feedback-creating-psychological-safety-so-we-can-speak-directly\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:57","slug":"leadership-skills-series-giving-difficult-feedback-creating-psychological-safety-so-we-can-speak-directly","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leadership-skills-series-giving-difficult-feedback-creating-psychological-safety-so-we-can-speak-directly\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Skills Series: Giving Difficult Feedback – Creating Psychological Safety so we Can Speak Directly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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In this second instalment, we explored psychological safety and, in particular, how you can create it to be able to provide difficult feedback.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Recommended reading <\/strong><\/p>\n

Psychological Safety Special Report: March 2021<\/a>————————————–<\/p>\n

Finding the Link Between Psychological Safety and Personal Development<\/a><\/p>\n

How Your Power Silences Truth \u2013 Megan Reitz<\/a><\/p>\n

For 2021, the Leadership Performance Institute has introduced the Leadership Skills Series to provide all members with an opportunity to develop the leadership skills and acumen required to thrive in high performance environments.<\/h4>\n

In this second instalment, we explored psychological safety and, in particular, how you can create it to be able to provide difficult feedback.<\/p>\n

The ability to open up and have honest conversations about opportunities for improvement or issues is fundamental for high performance. Sport is better at this than a lot of other environments, particularly where teams and organisations have contracted around it \u2013 the concept works relatively well with coaches and athletes. There will, however, be boundaries where those feedback conversations do not flow naturally. There are also conversations we should be having that are still not taking place.<\/p>\n

Objectives for the call included:<\/p>\n