Psychological safety

[cosmolinguist]

I've just had a cute, kinda meta conversation about psychological safety at work.

I mentioned it offhandedly in the big team meeting this morning and just now a colleague called me just to ask about it. He said he hadn't heard of it before but he was interested. I'm no expert but I tried to explain that it's about feeling safe to challenge people, to be unpopular, to be more of your whole self at work.

It was nice that I could use an example where he once asked me about a new colleague he started working with who uses they/them pronouns; he wasn't sure what that meant or how to use them so he asked me.

And of course him asking me this is itself an example of psychological safety. Something that he noticed himself at the end of the conversation. He's cool, I really like him.

Comments

[otter]

You are definitely part of creating that sort of safety at your work. and it's obviously working
:)

[silveradept]

What a convenient example to have to hand for explaining. And how nice it is that you are someone that others trust to explain things they don't understand to them.