Safety

Psychological Safety: What is it, Why does it matter, and how can you create it for your team?

Psychological Safety: What is it, Why does it matter, and how can you create it for your team?

Feeling able to seek help, to admit mistakes, to speak up when something is wrong in the workplace, is less a reflection of the person doing the speaking and more of a reflection of whether their working environment enables them to feel safe to speak.

This is what we call Psychological Safety.

Ask yourself this - if one of your team members screwed up, would they feel confident that they could let you know, without fear of repercussions? Now dial-up the magnitude of the screw-up.