Marc Haine explains why psychological safety matters in teams: the ability to share ideas, challenge views, admit mistakes, and say "I don't know" without fear of shame or judgment. It's what separates high-performing teams from the rest.
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 the— 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.
