Psychological Safety Index

If you are serious about high performance in your organization, then I highly recommend the Psychological Safety Index assessment to understand if your team feels safe, to contribute, learn, and challenge the status quo.

Psychological safety at work has the following benefits:

• Better ideas are shared
• Learners learn faster
• Learners learn BETTER
• Bad processes are eliminated faster
• Less money wasted on turnover and bad processes
• More revenue due to client retention, better sales, salespeople retention, etc.
• Bottom line: More money EARNED

The ways to improve psychological safety are not costly:

• Do one on ones with your staff
• Ask more questions
• Select supervisors very carefully
• Eliminate toxic leaders - both informal and formal ones
• Admit mistakes
• Have open discussions to analyze projects (After Action Review aka hotwash) and listen without judgment
• Appreciate your team more often for more things

The benefits to your culture of investing in psychological safety are numerous. Whether you use a tool like the Psychological Safety Index or simply implement some of the above suggestions, your team and workplace will benefit.

Mike Lyons is an HR professional and consultant in the Austin, TX area. He can be found on LinkedIn.