Rafael Chiusi

It's expected.

It doesn't mean everybody will hug and be best friends forever.

To put it simply, psychological safety is about courage and vulnerability and it's also about shaping culture and designing systems that will be conducive of healthy and effective behaviors.

So, what to do then?

How can we nurture psychological safety and help others around us?

When you find yourself in a leadership position, whether this is your own family, your community, your organization, school, or church, you have to make sure that your team feels safe.

Fostering this environment requires ideas, yes, but more importantly, your actions.

Now I can suggest you three big actions that can help you.

First, remember, leadership matters.

people will follow the lead and mimic the behaviors that are displayed from the people running the show.

So cultivating healthy, positive behaviors at the top will send the right message to the people around you.

That includes, for example, preventing dominant personalities from monopolizing your meetings and ensuring that a good tone prevails throughout the conversation.

It's also a good idea to steer away from pointing fingers

That means treating mistakes as learning opportunities and shifting questions from who did it to how did this happen and how can we prevent that from happening in the future.

especially in scenarios where the system is far from ideal.

We've all been there.

You know the old saying, a bad system will beat a good person every time?

Well, it stands true.

So address the system without sacrificing the individuals.

Number two, observe.