People who grew up with less financial security often carry a higher perceived cost of risk into their careers.

Our latest research shows how SES influences psychological safety and opportunity-taking — especially early on.

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Carl Rogers argued creativity can’t be forced—it must be invited through psychological safety: unconditional worth, no judgement, and true empathy. #PsychSafety #Creativity

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The first rule of bad management: "When something isn't working, do more of it."

- Jerry Weinberg

Our survey highlights a feedback paradox: beneficial yet often demotivating or irrelevant.

How can we better deliver feedback to foster true psychological safety? #PsychologicalSafety

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We asked 90+ people how job insecurity affected their ability to raise concerns.

🎯 81.5% felt less safe
Only 4.3% felt “very safe”

Job security and psychological safety aren’t the same thing—but they’re not unrelated.

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The UK Government Digital Service posted this a few years back, and we still love it.

They were making it explicit that it’s ok to ask for help, suggest ideas and admit mistakes.

We delve into more psychological safety theory, opinion and tools here: psychsafety.com/psychologica...

But I’m right by your side,
And that’s what we call Pride

Grace Petrie

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Low quality feedback has an impact on how we feel at work and has also been found to affect the likelihood that we’ll stay with the team or organisation. It also matters because when feedback fuels growth, uneven feedback means uneven opportunities to improve.

This isn’t an easy challenge, but it’s one we must address.

How safe people feel when sharing feedback or co-creating solutions is pivotal to the success of any participatory process. We generally only engage to the degree that we feel safe to.

Building psychological safety across an organisation requires weaving an organisational fabric of psychological safety through tools, practices, norms and structures that support clarity and collaboration between groups and across the organisation.

"One more grain of sand"—that’s all it takes when systems are on the edge.

SOC explains how normal work can slowly drift into catastrophic failure.