Psychological Safety Requires an Appreciation of Power
Psychological safety requires an appreciation of power. You can’t build psychological safety if your leaders are ‘power-blind.’ Leaders need a foundational understanding of the risks inherent in employees sharing/dissenting/innovating and of their own relative power (by virtue of their role/position, but also through other identity factors like socio-economic status, race, gender, etc.)
Learning Snippets builds in examples that highlight these power imbalances to help leaders practice behaviours that create psychologically safe workplaces. https://bit.ly/LSPsySafe