To score, add up your scores from 2, 3, and 5 for a subtotal.

Working with members of this team, my unique skills and talents are valued and utilized.

It is difficult to ask other members of this team for help.

It is safe to take a risk on this team.

Members of my team are able to bring up problems and tough issues.

If I make a mistake on my team, it is often held against me.

Rate your team on a scale of one (strongly disagree) to seven (strongly agree) for the following: To help you assess your team's level of psychological safety, the authors laid out just five statements modified from Amy Edmonson's Team Psychological Safety Assessment. It turns out that psychological safety is the most important dynamic that sets successful teams apart. 'What mattered was the 'how': The best teams were those whose members respected one another's ideas,' the authors state. In their book, the authors cite a study done by Google in 2012 to try and figure out 'why some teams succeed where others fail.' The Google researchers found that 'individual team members' tenure, seniority, and extraversion didn't seem to affect team performance.' It turns out that it doesn't matter who is on the team. When teams have psychological safety, the authors say, they feel they can 'suggest ideas, admit mistakes, and take risks without being embarrassed by the group.' Creating a psychologically safe workplace isn't just a nice thing to do for you teams it's vital for business. In their book, ' No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work,' authors Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy include a simple assessment you can use to determine your team's degree of psychological safety. This is an example of a psychologically unsafe environment, one that stifles (potentially) good ideas, throttles growth, and makes good employees leave. What are the chances you will ever speak up again?

Your face burns and you wish the conference room floor would open up beneath you and swallow you whole.

To your horror, your boss says, 'Yeah, I don't think so.' Maybe a coworker rolls his eyes. In front of all of your coworkers and your boss, you share your plan. We all know the feeling: You're struck by a brilliant idea in a meeting. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

No hard feelings liz and mollie