Benefits of a Psychologically Safe Culture

Learning and efficient performance

Organizations must indeed focus on performance. However, the challenge is ensuring a balance between learning and efficient performance from employees.

A useful model to ascertain how an organization is functioning is a 2 x 2 matrix. On one axis, there’s performance pressure (accountable results). On the other axis, there is psychological safety.

Here’s a pictorial representation between psychological safety and performance level from p2theblog.

The above figure is described as follows:

• When psychological safety and accountability levels are low