Transforming your team environment to create a safe space for people to share their ideas and speak freely and openly will be one of the best things for your team, culture, customers and business. Psychologically safe and inclusive teams are empowered to activate their collective and diverse input and with this the results are limitless.
It is important for teams to explore Psychological Safety as part of their ongoing development and growth and discover the potential barriers and simple but powerful strategies to lift the team’s sense of safety. Here are just a few ideas:
– Talk about psychological safety. What does this mean for the team? What are real or potential barriers?
– Build self awareness and awareness of others. Get to understand each other better, including skills, talents, perspectives, etc.
– Actively check-in with each other, ask how people feel, what they think. Listen, show concern and care.
– Use positive and affirmative language in conversations.
– Encourage team members to share thoughts and feedback.
– Find real opportunities for team members to collaborate on work – this is an opportunity to be inclusive.
– Use reflective practice as a team, where everyone is invited to share what’s working and how things can be better.
– Role-model high-trust behaviours.
– Keep psychological safety the focus.
If you would like to discover more about creating a team, with a solid foundation of trust and psychological safety, connect with us.
Joan.