Learning Teams Often, when we’re trying to improve how work gets done, we start with principles We agree what we believe in, or are working towards, at a high level, and then figure out how those id...
STREAM: Status Rules Everything Around Me In the classic hip hop track CREAM, the great Wu-Tang tell us “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” Whilst it might sound like the song is glorifying money, i...
Growth Mindset When American psychologist Carol Dweck published her book “Mindset” in 2006 it made waves in the education world and beyond Drawing on her work developing mindset theory, it offered...
The Streetlight Effect Measuring the really important stuff is hard How do we measure inclusion, or safety, or happiness We can probably all agree that these things matter, but when it comes to measur...
The problem with the “Fist to Five” for psychological safety Often, with good intent, we find facilitators and teams adopting a practice called “Fist of Five”, where, at the st...
The trope of “psychological bravery” crops up a lot But what does it mean Typically, “psychological bravery” is an attempt to reframe: instead of focusing on creating psychologically s...
Psych Safety Book List 2025 You know we love a good book, and we love sharing them even more, and this year we’ve been treated to some brilliant recommendations from members of the Psych Safety...
Plan Continuation Bias, or “Get-There-Itis” I got pretty sick this week I was wiped out with a nasty bout of tonsillitis – high temperature, exhausted and felt awful The doctor put m...
Whistleblowing and Psychological Safety: Not the Same Thing By Jade Garratt When we explain our work to people who’ve never heard of psychological safety, they sometimes say, “Oh, like whistl...
How comparatively well-off we feel as children affects our later appetite for interpersonal risk taking in the workplace Authors: Tom Geraghty & Jade Garratt, Psychsafetycom In our work and e...
Vertical and horizontal psychological safety Psychological safety means feeling safe (note: not necessarily comfortable) to take interpersonal risks To foster it, we need to consider the dynamics of b...
Individual Resilience, or “Grit” You won’t find many articles on psychsafetycom about individual resilience Organisational resilience, certainly, but rarely the individual kind We tend n...
Counterfactuals If, like me, you grew up during the Friends era, you might remember the scene where Ross is upset because he has to tell Rachel that Emily insists they can’t be friends Ross: “...
Coaching and Psychological Safety: listening, trust and letting go of control By Jade Garratt When I first trained as a coach, I realised there were two things I wasn’t very good at: I meant w...
Emergence, substrate, succession, indicator species & ecotones I started my career in ecology, as an experimentalist working in a research station’s wonderfully named “Weed Science” departme...
Are you at the Sharp End or the Blunt End Most people who’ve been to school (and many who haven’t!) have strong opinions about education Understandably so – education speaks to how we raise ...
Forced Vulnerability One of the most persistent patterns in organisational change and dynamics is the search for a shortcut: the belief that if we can just find the right lever to pull, the right acti...
In part one we explored the benefits and risks in naming psychological safety In part two, we explored power and diversity In part three we dived into dissent, non-determinism, and...
Part 3: The Safety to Dissent In part one we discussed the power and danger in naming psychological safety In part two, we explored power and diversity This week we’re continuing our series of ...
Part 2: Different people, different safety Continuing our reflections on the last five years In part one, we explored the name psychological safety itself, and here in part two, we get into diversity,...
Part 1: The Power and Peril of Naming Over the past five years of our work in psychological safety, it has transformed from a little-known term, understood and explicitly practised by only a small gro...
Not Feeling Seen: Eye Contact and Psychological Safety There really is some bad advice and research around in respect to psychological safety, in particular how it relates to aspects of neurodiversity...
Psychological Safety Is Necessary But Not Sufficient We sometimes hear “But psychological safety isn’t enough!”, and well… Obviously It’s rather like saying that having a fully f...
The Amagasaki Derailment In our workshops and training, we often use real-world stories as a way to explore the dynamics of both failure and success Stories are a powerful tool to help us reflect on o...
Psychological Safety Books for Children In 2020, we shared a collection of the best books about psychological safety As new books were published (and there have been a lot of them about psycholo...
By Jade Garratt It will probably come as no great surprise to those of us who work with the concept of psychological safety that one of the earliest references to the term in academic and psychologica...
Welcome to The State of Psychological Safety Survey 2025 – the largest global survey on psychological safety ever! Psychological safety is the core ingredient behind high-performing, innovative,...
Barriers to Psychological Safety Executive Summary This research explores the experiential barriers to speaking up at work: not just structural or cultural factors, but the lived fears and beliefs tha...
How you respond matters “Everything you do is important to your organization People are watching you The people in your organization determine how to move forward after both successful work and how ...
