psychological safety
sy-kuh-LOJ-ih-kul SAYF-tee
ˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈseɪftiListen
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a team climate characterised by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people feel safe to take risks, voice opinions, ask naive questions, and admit mistakes without fear of punishment, humiliation, or social exclusion; the concept was developed by organisational psychologist Amy Edmondson at Harvard Business School and is consistently identified as the single most important predictor of team effectiveness in Google's Project Aristotle research; teams with high psychological safety learn faster, innovate more, and perform better than those where members self-censor out of fear of appearing incompetent or disruptive
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