Benefits of a Psychologically Safe Culture
Understand the benefits of cultivating a psychologically safe culture in your organization. Learn how this environment encourages risk-taking, supports effective communication, fosters inclusion, and drives both learning and performance, helping your team succeed and stay motivated.
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Learning and efficient performance
Organizations must indeed focus on performance. However, the challenge is ensuring a balance between learning and efficient performance from employees.
A useful model to ascertain how an organization is functioning is a 2 x 2 matrix. On one axis, there’s performance pressure (accountable results). On the other axis, there is psychological safety.
Here’s a pictorial representation between psychological safety and performance level from p2theblog.
The above figure is described as follows:
- When psychological safety and accountability levels are low (apathy zone), the team is apathetic and constantly maneuvers for favorable positions. This is mainly typified in bureaucratic organizations, where