It’s about creating an environment where your team feels safe enough to give you theirs
Leadership has many facets. An important one is to create an environment where the team voices half-finished thoughts, openly challenges the status quo, shares feedback, and works through disagreements together-—knowing that leaders value honesty, candor, and truth-telling.
Here are 7 Steps To Create a Safe Environment
1️⃣ Psychological Safety Training
↳ Provide training to educate other leaders and your team. Associate psychological safety with its benefits, such as innovation, team engagement, and trust.
2️⃣ Encourage Everyone Speaking Up
↳ Be willing to listen, show genuine curiosity, and praise candor and challenging the status quo.
3️⃣ Emphasize Learning & Growth
↳ When importance is given to a growth mindset and encouragement for learning, the environment becomes more oriented towards risk-taking.
4️⃣ Encouraging Feedback
↳ Provide opportunities for your team to give you feedback. This makes your team feel respected and heard, and also gives you valuable information about what may be missing from your leadership.
5️⃣ Embrace Productive Conflict
↳ Promote constructive debate. Establish Team Agreements so everyone is clear about how to address conflict.
6️⃣ Offer Course Correction
↳ Speak privately with your team member in a timely manner. Leave space for the team member to self-assess, adjust, and move forward.
7️⃣ Celebrate Effort
↳ Acknowledge effort and progress regardless of the final outcome.
Leaders play a pivotal role in creating safe 🛟 and unsafe 🔥 environments.
Support the pushback, blue-sky thinking, and risk-taking. All of that leads to your team’s and your success.
💎 Exceptional Leader Practice:
⭐ Create a Safe Environment
⭐ Ensure Psychological Safety
⭐ Encourage Everyone Speaking Up & Candor
⭐ Emphasize Learning & Growth
⭐️ Celebrate Effort
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