From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
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The importance of psychological safety
From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
The importance of psychological safety
- In 2015, Google announced the findings of a two-year long research initiative that they called Project Aristotle. The goal, it was to figure out what exactly made Google teams effective. Now, a surprising result surfaced to the top. The most important trait that a team needs in order to thrive is psychological safety. And that is the ability for team members to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed. And this trait wasn't just kind of ahead of the others. According to Julia Rozovsky, the analyst within Google People Operations, who wrote a summary of the report, psychological safety was far and away the most important of the five dynamics we found. It is the underpinning of the other four. The term, psychological safety, to describe group interactions, was defined by Harvard researcher, Amy Edmondson, in 1999. She defined it as a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. All right,…
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