Welcome to our feature describing Psychological Safety assessment designs.
NEW Safety assessment design
We follow best practice when creating any new assessment design, including our NEW Psychological Safety assessment designs.
An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Rob Williams is a Chartered Psychologist with over 25 years of experience working and designing tests. He is also the author of five psychometric test books.
Our other psychometric test design specialities
- Firstly, here are some examples of our specialist situational judgment test designs.
- Secondly, our values situational and competency values-based assessment designs.
- We also specialise in aptitude test design projects.
- Then next our customised leadership assessment projects and pre-employment sift designs.
- Plus, our emotional intelligence assessment designs. and high potential test designs.
- And then next, our top bespoke personality test design projects and our school aptitude test designs.
- Finally, some examples of the bespoke psychometric tests designed recently for clients.
Which behavioural elements of psychological safety are assessed?
- Leadership behaviours play a key role in shaping their organisation’s psychological safety.
- Interpersonal risks can be taken in those organisational cultures where there is psychological safety.
- Cultures with psychological safety allow staff to share their ideas openly. This is necessary for there to be any innovation.
Psychological safety in todays VUCA world
- It’s crucial for any organization to ensure there is Psychological safety to operate efficiently in todays VUCA business environment.
- That said, a surprising number of organisations do not have this foundation ston3vof psychological safety.
- In addition to the key benefits of improving individual as team high performance, psychological safety improves learning and employee engagement.
What happens when there’s no psychological safety?
- The leaders across organisations with low psychological safety are more likely to make more over confident and therefore riskier decisions.
- Physical safety can be put at risk, especially in hierarchical organisations. In fact, there have been many famous industrial accidents because co-pilots or junior nuclear power plant staff did not feel comfortable, or sufficiently ‘safe’, to speak up when they knew something was going wrong.
So, what are psychological safety’s characteristics?
- More creative thinking and innovation.
- Learning agility of staff.
- Higher employee engagement.
- Enhanced problem solving skills.
- More candid and direct comm7ication skills.
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