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?
During my Masterâs in Coaching & Behaviour Change at Henley Business School , I immersed myself in The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson. I read it cover to cover on my iPad and listened to it re...
The higher you climb in an organisation, the funnier your jokes get. This is due to humans hard-wiring for self-protection, which can trigger what Julia Diamond calls the ârank reflexâ. It leads peopl...
The news no parent ever wants to hear is their child being diagnosed with cancer. As a dad, I canât imagine it. This is exactly what Stephen Bennett was told after his fit, healthy, sports-mad six-yea...
There are not enough case studies into what happens when teams benefit from environments where colleagues share diverse perspectives, great ideas and concerns without the worry it will be weaponised a...
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.
From having a Staf...
