Leading High Performing Teams: Half-day leaders and managers professional development public workshop

2 June 2026
9.00am to 1.00pm
Facilitated by Dr Dougal Sutherland on Teams

While all people in a team have a part to play in creating a culture of high performance, leaders play a crucial role in setting the tone and the conditions for psychological safety

Umbrella’s Leading High-Performing Teams half-day workshop gives leaders the tools, knowledge and practical strategies to foster psychological safety in their teams. When psychological safety is present people offer more innovative and courageous ideas, ask insightful questions, and offer valuable feedback. Psychological safety is the key ingredient in a high-performing team.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Understand what psychological safety is and why it is so important for a team
  2. Recognise what happens in your brain when you are (or are not) feeling psychologically safe
  3. Use insights from psychological research to learn the best ways to boost psychological safety via:
    • Enhancing emotion regulation skills
    • Building trust
    • Developing high quality connections
    • Creating supportive leadership
    • Using values-driven behaviour.

All Umbrella training is developed from best-practice research in the wellbeing and mental health sciences. This workshop is facilitated by Umbrella’s Principal Psychologist, Dr Dougal Sutherland.

This workshops includes case examples to help operationalise skills taught, and comes complete with workbooks that participants take away with them at the end of the training.

Note: This public workshop is open to individual registrations from leaders and managers across New Zealand. If you are interested in running a workshop for your entire leadership team, please get in touch using our standard enquiry form.