Psychological safety's most-cited definition, a shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking, is wrong. Dr. Timothy R. Clark has 1.3 million data points to prove it.
When it comes to psychological safety, two people on the same team can have completely opposite experiences, and averages hide it.
In this episode, Dr. Clark and LeaderFactor COO Junior analyze their validated psychological safety assessment, PSindex®, to make their case: 1.3 million data points, 81,504 responses across 513 organizations and 10,432 teams.
What does the data show?
Psychological safety is not a shared team climate; it is an individual perception of risk that varies within the same team. One person on one team can feel psychological safety very differently than another.
The takeaway: Leaders need to stop managing to the average, and instead lower the felt risk of vulnerability person by person.
