The CultureSafe Journal

"My door is always open" may be the most common sentence in leadership. It is sincere. It is well-intentioned. And it does almost nothing to get people talking. The research on leader inclusiveness ex...

Leaders use "trust" and "psychological safety" as if they were the same thing. They are related, but they are not the same. And the gap between them explains one of the most confusing experiences in l...

You can't order safety into existence

Last week, we defined psychological safety: the shared belief that your team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. It's the number one driver of team performanc...

The nod isn't a yes

You wrap up the meeting asking, "Make sense to everyone? Any concerns?" A few nods. Silence. You take it as alignment and move on. But three people in that room had a concern. One...

The silence that costs you

I want you to imagine yourself sitting in a project meeting. A junior engineer notices something that looks a little off in the plan. There's a quiet voice in her head sayi...