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A team is only as safe as the least safe person - Psych Safety

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When measuring the psychological safety in a team, we often are asked which measurement should be considered the “group measurement,” given that different individuals will likely experience rather different degrees of psychological safety. Our stance at Psych Safety is that we consider teams to only be as safe as the least safe person. What we often see, and challenge, is a team’s psychological safety being represented as the average (usually the mean) level of psychological safety among its members. This is particularly common when survey tools are used to measure, which use likert statements and present us with a set of metrics. It’s easy to take that data set and look at averages, but this is problematic. As an example, if we have a team of ten people, and nine of them feel very psychologically safe whilst one feels very unsafe, that average score will completely mask the outlier. The score will suggest the team is doing great, when in fact we have someone on the team who is sufferi

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