Humanitarian Grand Challenge - Building Psychological Safety

Building psychological safety

Psychological safety means people on a team feel safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and be vulnerable in front of one another.

When Google went on a quest to find out what made teams perform well, they found psychological safety (a term coined by Amy Edmondson at Harvard) to be the number one predictor of high performance.

They found that individuals on teams with higher psychological safety are less likely to leave Google, they’re more likely to harness diverse ideas from their teammates, they bring in more revenue, and they’re rated as effective twice as often by executives.

We know it makes a difference, so how might you increase psychological safety on your team?

Google have put together a one pager of 'manager actions to increase psychological safety'

Check out the resources below, and let us know in Slack which are most useful!

Psychological safety first: building trust among teamsCreating a sense of psychological safety at work is not easy. But with trust, vulnerability, and these team-building activities, you can get there.

Here's a three minute interview of Amy Edmondson talking about why psychological safety is important.

Or if you prefer listening, here's a 28 minute podcast of Amy Edmondson talking about psychological safety.

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