Creating psychological safety-1st - Creating psychological safety

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The webinar focused on psychological safety as part of a broader wellbeing series. Doug Krakowicz explained that psychological safety means people can speak up, ask questions, admit mistakes, and take risks without fear of ridicule, punishment, or humiliation. He highlighted Amy Edmondson’s four key elements: feeling included, learning, contributing, and challenging.<br /><br />Doug argued that psychological safety is essential for innovation, creativity, collaboration, motivation, and team performance. In today’s fast-changing world, skills like curiosity, resilience, flexibility, and lifelong learning depend on people feeling safe enough to participate.<br /><br />He also stressed that psychological safety is not only about the environment leaders create, but also about individuals’ perceptions and mental approach. His mental toughness framework showed how self-awareness, emotional control, confidence, risk orientation, and learning orientation influence whether someone feels safe. Leaders can improve safety by modeling humility, encouraging feedback, listening, including everyone, and building trust. Individuals can help by becoming more self-aware and supporting a respectful culture.<br /><br />The session concluded that psychologically safe teams are more productive, innovative, and better for wellbeing, creating a virtuous circle between performance and health.

Keywords

psychological safety

wellbeing

team performance

innovation

leadership

self-awareness

trust