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What Is Psychological Safety?
Psychological safety is the feeling of trust and well-being within a team or organization without the fear of consequences. It refers to the belief that one can share ideas, opinions, questions, or mistakes without being judged or ridiculed by any other person. It is an evidence-based, well-researched theoretical construct that lets employees be humans and aids in their optimal performances.
It doesn’t always have to mean everyone will be nice to you despite your behavior or actions. Rather, you can share your thoughts and ideas, promote equality, give feedback, and find a middle ground despite disagreements.
Why Is Psychological Safety Important?
Psychological safety is an important factor in representing your work environment and culture. It holds the key to breaking down the walls of discomfort and promoting a sense of security among employees, leading to a healthy organization.
Fostering psychological safety in a workplace leads to a more vibrant, enthusiastic, and collaborative environment where people can feel innovative, creative, and productive.
It creates a fearless culture that enables talent to speak up, share their ideas, be comfortable taking interpersonal risks, report errors, and solve a multitude of problems efficiently.
Psychological safety encourages a relational, dynamic, and transactional vision that must be nurtured at all levels of the organization. It promotes a people-first culture built on inclusivity, belonging, diversity, equity, trust, and safety.
Fearless organizations give individuals permission to be human, fallible, fail forward, learn, problem-solve, and collaborate. Employees embrace vulnerability, willingly and bravely share good and bad news, ask for help, feel valued, and know what is expected of them.
Benefits of Psychological Safety
Better Employee Engagement
Fearlessly Embrace Experimentation
Fosters More Creative, Productive, and Satisfied Employees
Better Team Communication and Collaboration
Greater Employee Retention
Promotes Mental Health and Well-Being of Employees
Provides an Inclusive Environment for Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Heightened Organizational Reputation and Credibility
Greater Resilience to Take Risks, Learn and Grow
Fearless Navigation 3-step approach
01
Evaluate
the Presence or Absence of Psychological Safety within your Organization and on Teams
02
Engineer Solutions
through our Executive Coaching, Training, Workshops, Team Coaching
03
Execute and Evolve
your Teams and Organization into a Psychologically Safe Environment
01
Inclusion Safety
the basic need to feel included, connected, and accepted for being yourself in the team
02
Learner Safety
providing a free and safe environment to learn, ask questions, provide feedback, and fail forward.
03
Contributor Safety
lets you make a difference with your skills, ideas, thoughts, and perspectives.
04
Challenger Safety
fulfill the need to feel safe and brave enough to challenge the status quo for equality and speak up to contribute to improvements or change.
Make waves. Sea change.
Harness new levels of collaboration, innovation and performance
Make waves. Sea change
Make inclusion and innovation the norm in the workplace
Turn conflict into collaboration
How We Rock
Unlock the potential
of your crew
Build cultures of inclusion and innovation through the power of psychological safety.
- More collaboration
- More innovation
- More performance
- More connection
- More growth
“I believe you have to rock the boat to make waves.”
Jodie O’Malley, Culture Captain
Join our psychological safety programs to promote and nurture inclusivity among teams and create a thriving environment with better employee efficiency, engagement, and success.
Join our psychological safety programs to promote and nurture inclusivity among teams and create a thriving environment with better employee efficiency, engagement, and success.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can individuals contribute to a psychologically safe work environment?
It is every individual’s responsibility to create a psychologically safe work environment. Some ways to create and foster them include: building self-awareness among team members, accepting and owning up to mistakes, avoiding blaming culture, building trust, and being open to constructive criticism and feedback.
What is psychological safety?
Psychological safety is the sense of belief or trust within the members of a team or organization. It fosters the notion that one will not be judged or ridiculed for being oneself or speaking up to share thoughts, opinions, ideas, and feelings.
What are some sectors where psychological safety plays a significant role?
Psychological safety is an essential part of any team culture. This is not only limited to corporate organizations. Psychological safety is much needed for teams and workplaces from healthcare to banking and schools.
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