About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of promoting positive workplace behaviours to enhance team performance and safety in the medical field.

Incivility and poor workplace behaviours can hinder psychological safety and impact team morale, effective communication, and overall team performance. These permissive environments can lead to defensive practice, high stress, burnout, and sickness. In this episode, Laura Hipple, Ganga Verma, and Susie Crowe discuss the importance of promoting positive workplace behaviours in our specialty, for both staff and patient safety, and explain the impact that poor workplace behaviours can have on the workforce. Ganga and Susie share more about their role as RCOG Workplace Behaviour Advisors and offer insight into the breadth of the RCOG’s ‘Supporting our Doctors’ portfolio, including signposting to key resources that can support you throughout your career.

People in this episode

Guests: Laura Hipple, Ganga Verma, Susie Crowe

Topics covered

• workplace behaviour
• psychological safety
• team morale
• staff safety
• patient safety
• burnout
• supporting doctors

Keywords

• incivility
• workplace behaviours
• team performance
• stress
• burnout
• psychological safety
• RCOG
• supporting doctors

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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