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Team psychological safety audit

Assess and improve psychological safety within your team

Evaluate the level of psychological safety in your team and identify ways to improve it. This foundational element enables innovation, learning, and high performance.

45 minutes
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Overview

Evaluate the level of psychological safety in your team and identify ways to improve it. This foundational element enables innovation, learning, and high performance.

Learning objectives

  • Assess current psychological safety levels
  • Identify barriers to safety
  • Create improvement strategies

Instructions

Assess psychological safety:

1. Survey team on safety dimensions 2. Identify safety barriers and risks 3. Analyze team meeting dynamics 4. Create safety improvement plan 5. Design safety-building activities

Steps

1

Safety assessment

20 minutes

Evaluate current state

2

Barrier identification

15 minutes

Find what inhibits safety

3

Improvement planning

10 minutes

Design interventions

Pro tips

  • Look for signs of self-censorship
  • Notice who speaks in meetings
  • Model vulnerability yourself

Example outcome

Psychological safety assessment with score and 5 specific improvement actions

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