Psychological Safety for Teams: A Leader’s Guide to Fostering Healthy, Creative, and Diverse Teams

Innovative, resilient, and high-performing teams all share a quality called “psychological safety.” As a leader, you directly create your team’s culture of psychological safety and determine whether people withhold or share vital information for fear of reprisal or ridicule, even in subtle ways. In so doing, you determine whether team members are forthcoming, trusting, and creative or fearful, worried, and reserved. The environment you create dramatically impacts team morale and performance.

This course will define what psychological safety is and will explain how leaders can help foster it across different settings—one-on-ones, all-hands, remote work, and during times of organizational turmoil. It will show you ways you can model it directly as a leader through personal boundary-setting, and how it influences burnout. Learners will take away practical tips, tricks, and policies that will help model and cultivate psychological safety and inspire the best in their teams.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

• Understand what psychological safety is and why it is important to teams
• Cultivate psychological safety for a variety of teams in a variety of settings
• Maintain psychological safety while handling difficult management tasks, such as feedback or organizational change

This course is for you because…

• You’re a manager or leader in your organization and want to have a high-performing team.
• You’ve heard about this concept of “psychological safety” and want to know what it is, why it's important, and how to foster it in a team.
• You’re moving into a management role and want to learn key management skills.

Recommended follow-up:

• Fostering Ethical Conduct Through Psychological Safety (book)