A workplace or team is said to have a culture of psychological safety when employees feel confident that their professional opinions, diverse ideas, and concerns will be heard and validated. It’s a critical factor that enables teams to access and leverage the ideas, perspectives, and experience of all its members, enabling high performance.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Define psychological safety and explain why it’s important for team and organisational performance

  Identify key behaviours which foster psychological safety

  Understand how you can contribute to creating psychological safety in your team

Let’s begin.

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