What is psychological safety?

Psychological safety isn’t about personalities and refers to the work climate, and climate affects people with different personality traits in roughly similar ways.

In a psychologically safe climate, people will offer ideas and voice their concerns regardless of whether they tend ...

Psychological safety is a "shared belief, held by members of a team, that a group is a safe place for taking risks. It is a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish someone for speaking up.”(Amy Edmondson, 1999)

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It means an absence of interpersonal fear. When psychological safety is present, people are able to speak up with work-relevant content.

For many people during the pandemic, the explicitness of the physical lack of safety has been experienced as a shared ...