Psychological Safety: The key to happy, high-performing people and teams

Both academic and industry research suggest that paying close attention to psychological safety has tangible benefits, not just to personal health and wellbeing, but to workplace productivity and performance.

Psychological safety in the context of work teams is defined by Harvard Business School professor and researcher Amy Edmondson as:

"a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes, and that the team is safe for interpersona...