Psychological Safety

In today’s rapidly changing and complex world, it is crucial for businesses to invest in personal and group development at all levels within the organization. This creates high-performing teams that are able to meet the challenges that arise. There are high demands for self-awareness, effective communication, building strong relationships, and new ways of interacting. Research unequivocally indicates that teams become high-performing when the climate within the group is psychologically safe. You strengthen these skills by trying, doing, and understanding different perspectives. When you bring your work group here, you build trust and begin to understand each other instead of just knowing each other. This is one of the keys to creating psychological safety in a team. It’s a group phenomenon.

Purpose

To deeply understand what psychological safety creates in a high-performing team, why it is crucial to have, and how it is achieved.

Target group

Groups working together towards common goals who want to strengthen psychological safety to become high-performing.

What Psychological Safety is about

How safe it is to take a personal risk, dare to ask a “stupid” question, suggest new ideas, and admit mistakes. It all stems from the unwillingness to feel wrong. Nobody wants to appear incompetent. It’s also about the dangerous silence and not informing when you see something is wrong or daring to disagree with the boss. In an organization, this can have fatal consequences. What does it look like in your group? It’s all about how you build trust, credibility, and show respect towards each other.