Jackie Insigner explains why psychological safety is the number-one factor for high-performing teams. It means team members can share ideas, challenge others, admit mistakes, and express uncertainty without fear of shame or judgment.
So, what they found by and large, the number one factor to create a high-performing team was psychological safety on the team. And this was a real breakthrough because psychological safety is like a definition around it is the ability to take interpersonal risks, which is like sharing an initiative, sharing an idea, going against an idea, challenging an idea, admitting a mistake, saying, I don't know. Any of those things. Key part, without fear of shame or judgment.
