Psychological safety is a critical part of a high-performance culture. Unless people feel comfortable contributing their ideas and challenging the vocal majority, the team will easily slip into the complacency of groupthink.

But psychological safety is often misunderstood, which is why we produced this mythbuster episode to debunk some of the commonly held misconceptions.

I talk, from two different perspectives, about how the term ‘psychological safety’ has been misappropriated: first from my own experience, then from a recent article by Amy Edmondson, who pioneered the concept.