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Why good team communication relies on psychological safety

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To what extent does building a psychologically safe environment improve team communication and team performance?  

Being good in what you do is part of the job. Getting better alongside your team is good team communication. That's where psychological safety comes in.

Is your workplace psychologically safe?

“While skimming and scanning other people’ solutions for good team communication,” writes Emilia Bratu, content manager at 4PSA and an author at Hubgets Blog, “I came across an interesting concept: ‘psychological safety at work.’ The term is attributed to Amy C. Edmondson, a Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, who describes it as ‘a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject or punish someone for speaking up.’ ”

Edmondson puts the concept into context further explaining that, when team members are motivated at work and want to share an idea for improving performance, they frequently do not speak up because they fear that they will be harshly judged.

“As an introvert and as a team member myself, I wanted to see to what extent building a psychologically safe environment can improve team communication and inherently team performance," Bratu writes. Here's what she found.

Read the full article here: Is Your Workplace Psychologically Safe?

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