psychological safety

This simple team activity builds psychological safety.

invite participation, promote open conversation

Your team is highly unlikely to access high performance when psychological safety is low. When it comes to high performance, that sense of safety is simply table-stakes; an enabler.

Most people think psychological safety is about creating happy teams.

Nope. Wrong.

Psychological safety is about high performance.

That’s it.

Now, if you care about high performance and are looking for ways to develop it within your team, bring this exercise (and your curiosity) to your people today and start a new type of conversation. (The Fearless Organisation points to Open Conversation as one domain of psychological safety.)

5 Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni proposes a model of effective teams that is a pyramid of 5 characteristics (that he presents through the lens of the 5 dysfunctions of a team).

Framing The Work

Set up the conversation by sharing this model and a little context around it.