Psychological Safety
How does the psychological safety module help with measuring and improving?
Identifying perception
The module helps to expose difficulties in psychological safety within teams and asks employees to come up with solutions.
Targeted actions at team level
Teams can take specific actions to improve social safety in their team by discussing relevant issues.
Continuous Feedback Loop
Regularly collecting and analyzing feedback helps measure the impact of changes and monitor progress.
What is psychological safety?
Psychological safety, also known as social safety, means that employees feel safe to share their ideas, mistakes and questions without fear of negative consequences.
This promotes open communication, innovation and collaboration within teams. It ensures that everyone feels heard and is free to contribute to the growth of the organization.
Why is psychological safety important?
Psychological safety is crucial because it promotes open communication and collaboration. Employees dare to share their ideas and mistakes without fear, which leads to more innovation, better performance and stronger team dynamics.
It ensures that everyone feels heard and supported, but also lowers turnover and absenteeism in teams.
Improving psychological safety
You can improve psychological safety by:
Normalize errors
Encourage learning from mistakes rather than punishing.
Encourage open communication
Make sure everyone dares to share their ideas and concerns.
Ask for feedback
Show that all perspectives are welcome.
Provide support
Respond to questions and suggestions with understanding, without judgment.
Can I measure psychological safety?
Yes, psychological safety can be measured, for example through surveys or data analysis with tools such as Deepler.
This provides insight into how safe employees feel to share their ideas and concerns. The advantage is that you can implement targeted improvements, so that the right conversation can be held in a concrete way.
Statistics Psychological Safety
60%
feels burned out when psychological safety is poor in their team.
50%
higher productivity in teams with high psychological safety scores.
27%
reduction in employee turnover with high psychological safety.
74%
less stress among employees where psychological safety scores well.