Think of psychological safety as the collective emotional intelligence of a group.
Have you ever seen a team full of individuals with low EQ who maintain high psychological safety? Probably not.
👤 EQ: Improves your individual ability to interact effectively. 👥 Psychological Safety: Improves your team's ability to interact effectively.
Let's start with EQ:
We improve our emotional intelligence when we learn to interact more effectively. This includes improving our perception, our intent, and our skills in our interactions. The goal is to improve our delivery system to become more effective.
But what about psychological safety?
We increase the levels of psychological safety on our team when we increase the instances of rewarded vulnerability in our interactions. The goal is to increase inclusion, learning, contribution, and candor within our team.
Recognizing that psychological safety is the collective EQ of a group has been a crucial “aha moment” for many of our L&D and HR clients. Can you see how the two work together?
⭐ Building individual self and social awareness helps a team identify acts of vulnerability as they interact.
⭐ Monitoring and improving self and social regard motivates teams to validate their colleagues' unique workplace vulnerabilities.
⭐ Improving the skills that team members have to interact effectively gives them better tools to reward the vulnerabilities of others.
This relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological safety is the anatomy of culture in an organization. Both should be at the foundation of all development efforts.
An organization that cannot recognize the relationship between psychological safety and emotional intelligence will struggle to (1) Gather cultural data that can be used tactically, (2) target the root cause of cultural distress, and (3) program meaningful, effective intervention.
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Think of psychological safety as the collective emotional intelligence of a group.
Have you ever seen a team full of individuals with low EQ who maintain high psychological safety? Probably not.
👤 EQ: Improves your individual ability to interact effectively.
👥 Psychological Safety: Improves your team's ability to interact effectively.
Let's start with EQ:
We improve our emotional intelligence when we learn to interact more effectively. This includes improving our perception, our intent, and our skills in our interactions. The goal is to improve our delivery system to become more effective.
But what about psychological safety?
We increase the levels of psychological safety on our team when we increase the instances of rewarded vulnerability in our interactions. The goal is to increase inclusion, learning, contribution, and candor within our team.
Recognizing that psychological safety is the collective EQ of a group has been a crucial “aha moment” for many of our L&D and HR clients. Can you see how the two work together?
⭐ Building individual self and social awareness helps a team identify acts of vulnerability as they interact.
⭐ Monitoring and improving self and social regard motivates teams to validate their colleagues' unique workplace vulnerabilities.
⭐ Improving the skills that team members have to interact effectively gives them better tools to reward the vulnerabilities of others.
This relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological safety is the anatomy of culture in an organization. Both should be at the foundation of all development efforts.
An organization that cannot recognize the relationship between psychological safety and emotional intelligence will struggle to (1) Gather cultural data that can be used tactically, (2) target the root cause of cultural distress, and (3) program meaningful, effective intervention.
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