Psychological safety
In 2012, Google found that psychological safety was the most important to making a team succeed, not the smartest teams or the ones who socialized outside the office. Psychological safety is a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. The team will not embarrass, reject or punish someone for speaking up.
Remote-first teams embrace values of trust and transparency out of necessity. Trust and transparency make people feel respected, valued, and safe to voice dissenting opinions. Teammates can read of people challenging ideas and presenting new viewpoints and having their perspective acknowledged. It gives them the confidence to do the same.
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