What Is Psychological Safety?

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 ...

Amy Edmondson is a management professor at Harvard Business School and has done a tremendous amount of work in the area of psychological safety.

In her Tedx Talk, she describes psychological safety as “a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.” Psychological saf...

• Teams that feel empowered to share their perspectives with each other, especially when their opinions differ from the rest of the group.
• These teams are more likely to take initiative and consider the full picture of each situation. This in turn enables the team to...