Psychological Safety

Psychological Safety Topics:

  1. What is psychological safety?
  2. Why is psychological safety important?
  3. Improving psychological safety.
  4. Can I measure psychological safety?
  5. Psychological safety statistics.

How does the psychological safety module help you measure and improve?

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Identifying Causes

The module helps to uncover difficulties in psychological safety within teams and asks employees to come up with solutions.

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Targeted team-level actions

Teams can take specific actions to improve social safety in their team by discussing issues that are at play.

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Continuous Feedback Loop

Collecting and analyzing feedback regularly helps measure the impact of changes and helps monitor progress.

What is psychological safety?

Psychological safety, also known as social safety, means that employees feel safe to share their ideas, mistakes, and questions without fear of negative consequences.

This promotes open communication, innovation and collaboration within teams. It ensures that everyone feels heard and is free to contribute to the growth of the organization.

Why is psychological important?

Psychological safety is crucial because it promotes open communication and collaboration. Employees dare to share their ideas and mistakes without fear, leading to greater innovation, better performance and stronger team dynamics.

It ensures that everyone feels heard and supported, but also reduces turnover and absenteeism in teams.

Improving psychological safety

You can improve psychological safety by:

Normalize errors
Encourage learning from mistakes rather than punishing.

Stimulating open communication

Make sure everyone dares to share their ideas and concerns.

Request Feedback
Show that all perspectives are welcome.

Provide support
Respond to questions and suggestions with understanding, without judgment.

Can I measure psychological safety?

Yes, psychological safety can be measured, for example via surveys or data analysis with tools such as Deepler.

This provides insight into how safe employees feel to share their ideas and concerns. The advantage is that this allows you to make targeted improvements, so that the good conversation can be had concretely.

Psychological Safety Statistics

60%

feels burned out when psychological safety scores poorly in their team.

50%

higher productivity among teams where psychological safety scores high.

27%

decline in staff turnover with high psychological safety.

74%

less stress among employees where psychological safety scores well.