What is a Psychological Safe Culture, and How Can Leaders Create It?
Gillian Thomson (MCIPD, MEng)
Head of People at Verlume | Award winning NXD | HR Ninja ??
When I worked in financial services during the credit crunch, I was involved in many redundancies. There were occasions that I felt I couldn’t speak up about things that weren’t true to my values. That feeling of not being able to speak up is the essence of a lack of psychological safety at work.
If you find yourself in a situation where you feel like you can’t speak up, whether that’s because you see something being done wrong, or whether you want to raise a new idea,?you might be in an environment that is not psychologically safe.
In this blog, I discuss psychological safety and why it’s crucial to?build a work culture?that instils this in the workplace. I also discuss how leaders can create psychological safety in the work environment and tips for your team. [Find out more here]