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Your Guide to Why Psychological Safety is Necessary for the Workplace
"The minute we start discounting someone as a number, as a product of their efforts, we don't see them as human. And when you don't see someone as human, you reach a point of, I think, probably the most awful place you could be, be it personally or inside a business."
— Craig Handy, Team Lead at Shopify and Founder of Jameson Strategies Consulting
In the second episode of our podcast, Unicorn Leaders, our guest, Craig Handy, discusses why leaders need to focus on creating psychological safety in the workplace and how your business won't grow without it.
As discussed at Unicorn Labs, psychological safety is a foundational element in the six levels of high-performing teams. It's the end-all-be-all. If your team can't achieve this first level, reaching others will be nearly impossible. You have to get it right for every other piece to fall into place.
When there is no psychological safety, most feedback managers receive from team-building exercises or coaching meetings lacks essential data because people will hold back or not be fully honest about their thoughts. Low or lack of psychological safety usually scares people from doing things because they fear consequences or repercussions.
This is why psychological safety is the starting point: it’s essential to every aspect of the workplace.
When people go to work, they often feel like they can't be themselves, which is exhausting. No one wants to leave part of their personality at home!
Your job is your life. Today's workforce wants to be able to bring their whole self to work. Feeling psychologically safe allows employees to be free to share personal and vulnerable aspects of their lives, thus creating deep relationships.
As managers, we can't just focus on efficiency.
It's about collaboration, not just results.
It's about going to work in the morning, talking to the team of engineers, sending emails to the marketers, jumping on a conference call, and go from team to team.
Table of Contents:
Now that you have mastered how to manage conflict - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
Now that you have mastered how to create an environment of empowerment via the 3-P's - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
Developing Your Communication, Empathy and Emotional Intelligence skills is start. What is your plan of action for implementing your learnings within your your team?
Now that you understand the differences in these titles - what is your plan of action for what you learned?
Assessing your team's behaviors is a start - but do you have a plan of action for the results?
Now that you have mastered the art of decision making - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
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A DISC Behavior Assessment is the best way to understand your team's personalities.
Each DISC Assessment includes a Self Assessment and DISC Style evaluation worksheet
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