Psychological safety is at the heart of an organizational culture that creates an environment where employees thrive. That’s important because happy, healthy employees create healthy organizations that thrive.

Psychological safety intersects with performance to foster employee engagement along a spectrum. For top performance and productivity, employees must be kept to a high standard within a psychologically safe workplace.

The psychological safety matrix will help you foster a culture of compassionate and effective leadership for a thriving workforce.

Included:

• A matrix exercise that helps you discern where your employees are within four quadrants: High-performance zone, Anxiety zone, Comfort zone, or Apathy zone.

• Examples of how employees respond to workplaces that provide high to low psychological safety in relation to high and low workplace standards.

• An action plan outline for increasing your organization’s psychological safety and standards, including metrics for measuring change.