What is Psychological Safety?
A shared belief that it's OK to speak up, take risks, express ideas or concerns and discuss mistakes without fear of embarrassment, rejection, or punishment. When colleagues feel they can do this, teams make better informed decisions, creativity and innovation can flourish, and motivation and engagement improves.
What Is It?
In 2012 I worked with a brilliant leadership coach, Richard Brown. In our first session he asked me a question. âGary whatâs your purpose?â. I was unsure what he meant. Perhaps my puzzled look prompte...
There are many well-known case studies of when an absence of psychological safety ends disastrously; the tragic 1977 Tenerife airport disaster where co-pilot Klaas Meurs did not feel safe to challenge...
Teams involved in life-and-death situations cannot afford to fall into the statistic that two in five colleagues at work feel unsafe to share ideas and voice their concerns openly.
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It turns out, when two in five of our colleagues get up for work in the morning, they donât want to look ignorant, so they donât ask quest...
A business delivering their strategy is impacted by lots of external factors out of our control. Geopolitics, economic conditions and the punches thrown by competitors. What is within our control is h...
I worked in a progressive organisation that cared enough to ask employees every year how they felt. The engagement survey included the question âis it safe to speak up in this company?â. Over a four-y...
70% of leaders overestimate how safe their teams feel about speaking up. Imagine for a moment, the irony of a leader asking their team if they feel safe to speak up. What answer do you think they get?...
In a recent workshop with Quality Spirits International, a division of the premium spirits business William Grant & Sons, the teamâs top score across various statements was âmy leader values my opinio...
