The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

STAGE 3Contributor Safety

“I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung—I see all this horizontally— and I see this as part of a matrix.”—Jonas Salk

Figure 7. The third stage on the path to inclusion and innovation

A Signal That It’s Go Time!

Have you ever been on an athletic team but didn’t get to play in the games? Instead, you sat the bench. What does it feel like to ride the pine? If your teammates accepted you, you had member safety. ...