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Psychological Safety

Environment That Helps You and Your Team

New tasks, technologies, procedures and situations that you didn't know yesterday are now a normal part of working life. How does your mind cope with them, and what can you do to make sure that change doesn't wear you out in the long run?

It's not just about what you can do. It also matters whether you feel safe at work – whether you can ask when you don't understand something, point out a problem, or say: "I made a mistake here." This is what we call a psychologically safe environment. When you feel respected and heard, teams work together more effectively, come up with more innovations, and cope with change better. Research by Professor Amy Edmondson from Harvard Business School has long confirmed that psychologically safe teams achieve better results and learn from their own experience more quickly. An internal CMX survey also showed that this is a subject employees consider important, so it deserves attention.

Building the future together

Psychological safety is not just a topic for wellbeing programmes. It is one of the basic prerequisites for an environment in which people can grow, collaborate, innovate and successfully manage change.

When you join Weeks of Psychological Safety, you'll gain inspiration and discover practical tips you can use both at work and in everyday life. Because openness, respect and trust are exactly what help us succeed together, even in times of great change.

Find out what role psychological safety plays in senior management teams and how leaders can support open communication and trust in the Leader to Leader podcast, featuring guests Tomáš Mertin and Alice Hamplová. You can listen to it in the media library on Škoda Space.