Proven Tactics for Improving Teams’ Psychological Safety

An experiment reveals interventions that managers can use to increase employees’ comfort with speaking up and raising concerns.

Chris Rider, Antoine Ferrère, Zsófia Belovai, Maria Guadalupe, and Florian Englmaier

March 27, 2023

As organizations increasingly move away from top-down management controls to more democratized leadership built around empowered, self-organized, highly agile teams, building a culture in which employees can contribute fully and honestly to constructive dialogue and decision-making is essential. It’s well known that high levels of psychological safety are required for that — but what is less obvious are the evidence-based interventions that leaders can implement ...