Technique 1.128 Developing Psychological Safety

Introduction

There are 4 distinct stages of psychological safety:

i) inclusion safety

ii) learner safety

iii) contributor safety

iv) challenger safety

Some questions for each stage to help you start the journey:

i) inclusion safety
    - Do you feel superior to other people? If so why?
    - What conscious bias do you have?
    - Is the principal of inclusion convenient or inconvenient for you
    - What individual or group are you having a hard time including not knowing what they are doing? Why?

ii) learner safety
    - When you start working with you people, do you judge their aptitude immediately or do you suppress that impulse?
    - Do you learn as much or more from your failure as your successes?
    - Does your team punish failure? Do you punish failure?
    - Do you encourage curiosity or choke it?

iii) contributor safety
    - What's your tell-to-ask ratio?
    - Have you ever withheld contributor safety from somebody who has earned it?
    - Can you be genuinely happy for the success of others?
    - Have you ever given someone contributor safety too fast? What happened?

iv) challenger safety
     - when was the last time you challenged the status quo in your organisation?
     - Are questions welcome on your team?
     - Do you feel the risk of be ridiculed on your team?
     - Do you provide others opportunities to disagree with you?
(source: LeaderFactor, 2022a)