Learn what psychological safety really is — a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking — and why it is the strongest predictor of team learning and performance. Use Amy Edmondson's Learning Zone model to diagnose your team's climate and design leader behaviours that move it toward high safety and high standards.
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What you'll learn
- Define psychological safety as a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking, distinct from trust, comfort or niceness
- Explain Amy Edmondson's Learning Zone quadrant model, plotting psychological safety against standards and accountability
- Diagnose a team's current zone using a safety-climate diagnostic and honest observable signals
- Design specific leader behaviours that raise psychological safety without lowering standards
- Produce a one-page Psychological Safety Diagnostic Canvas for a real IT team
Syllabus
Why Psychological Safety Matters in IT
Why capable IT teams stay silentFree preview
What psychological safety is and is not
The Learning Zone Model
Plotting safety against standards — the four zones
Diagnosing your team's zone
Psychological Safety in Real IT Work
Safety in everyday IT practice
Case study — the high-standards team in the Anxiety Zone
Making Safety Stick
Building your Psychological Safety Diagnostic Canvas
Common traps and anti-patterns