This is a living collection of resources that I share in my Leadership Development workshops related to the development of Psychological Safety in teams to increase inclusion, participation and performance. It includes all the resources I refer to in the 2-hour workshop, Psychological Safety and my group dynamics workshops. I also have pages on Building Relationships & Trust, Teams & Groups and Decision-Making & Meetings, which may help you answer your questions.

Building a psychologically safe workplace

Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Abilene Paradox (1984)

Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches & Leaders

Effective Teams and Managers: What Google Has Learned

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

The Secret to Building High-performance Teams

The High Cost of Rudeness at Work

Does Fear Motivate Workers — or Make Things Worse?

Asana’s Meeting Audit Playbook

Toxic culture, inadequate management, lack of training

How Can Leaders Unlock The Creativity Of Their Teams?

Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty

How to Engage Skeptics in Culture Interventions

The Personal Costs of Profitable Lies

No reward for leaning in: the workplace toll of emotional labor

Proven Tactics for Improving Teams’ Psychological Safety

On nonconformism, or why we need to be seen and not herded

The Problem With Being Too Easy-going

Building Your Team’s Safety Ecosystem

Bullying: why most people do nothing when they witness it – and how to take action

Psychological safety across organisations

Fintech firm Revolut assembles behavioural team after criticism of its corporate culture

Workplace Conditions

Confident Vulnerability: Three Ways For Leaders To Inspire Others

The Four Factors of Trust

Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams

What Psychological Safety Actually Means For Teams

The Smart-Talk Trap

Men dominate conference Q&A sessions — including online ones

Psychological Safety and the Distant Leader

Leader sincerity and empathy boost employee engagement, inclusion, and intent to stay

How to Show Compassion Without Compromising on Performance

Hard Work Isn’t the Point of the Office

Empower and energize employees with Microsoft Viva

Psychological Safety 79: The Andon Cord

The Fool is Among Us

‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better

Beyond “Agree to Disagree”: Why Leaders Need to Foster a Culture of Productive Disagreement and Debate

The curse of knowledge: Why experts struggle to explain their work

Here’s an Idea: Don’t Steal My Idea

An Engineering Team where Everyone is a Leader

The difficulties of speaking truth to power

Admitting what you don’t know is key to effective leadership

Inclusion Is the Key Ingredient to Innovative Leadership

Not a joke: leveraging humour at work increases performance, individual happiness, and psychological safety

The tendency to feel like a victim is associated with lower entrepreneurship, study finds

Knowledge Is Power—And Why You Should Share It

Should Employees Be Allowed to Choose What They Want to Do?

5 tips to Speak truth to Power

Effective leaders accelerate their team's ideas-to-actions flow

To Excel Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety

Research: Why Managers Ignore Employees’ Ideas

We need to see argument in a different light

Find More Ways to Be an Outsider

Fewer than half of employees in Europe feel trusted at work

Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Culture

When do words speak louder than actions?

Leaders need to stop silencing their people

Making the most of your people: key takeaways from the book ‘The Fearless Organization’

This is the next step after psychological safety

How you Show Up Affects my Voice

How Companies Blow It: Whistleblowing, Facebook and the Double Problem

What to Do With Contrarians?

Write Down Your Team’s Unwritten Rules

‘This team sucks the life out of people…’ — Megan Reitz

Why psychological safety matters and what to do about it

How To Create Your Own Psychological Safety At Work

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

What psychological safety is not

10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms

Keep Your Team on Track With a Team Charter

What Cross-Silo Leadership Looks Like

Design Your Work Environment to Manage Unintended Tech Consequences

Easing the Invisible Burdens of Collaboration

Psychological Safety At Work: what do psychologically safe work teams look like?

How to collaborate when you don’t have consensus

‘We need to talk’: ways to prevent collaborations breaking down

The upsides of downward deference

What Leaders Need Now More Than Ever: A ‘Team of Rivals’

From Hierarchy to Holacracy

The Courage to Be Candid

The Importance of Courage

Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy

Without Psychological Safety, Hybrid Work Won’t Work

This Is How To Respond To A Question You Don’t Know The Answer To

7 Pieces of Bad Career Advice Women Should Ignore

What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace

Study explores inner life of AI with robot that ‘thinks’ out loud

The Secret To Wellbeing At Work Is.... Leadership

When People Hold Morally-Based Attitudes, Two-Sided Messages Can Encourage Them To Consider Opposing Viewpoints

When You’re in Charge, Your Whisper May Feel Like a Shout

Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development

What we talk about when we talk about choice, challenge - and leadership

7 Ways To Be Brave At Work And End Up Victorious

Cross-understanding will help complex and diverse teams achieve mutually agreeable solutions

Have we lost the ability to speak up and disagree with the boss?

Company Culture Is Everyone’s Responsibility

Teamwork: How to Be an Activator, Not a Blocker

Cross-understanding will help complex and diverse teams achieve mutually agreeable solutions

The Price of Incivility

How Toxic Colleagues Corrode Performance

Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development

Psychological Safety At Work: what do psychologically safe work teams look like?

How Trash-talking Affects Performance

The power of groupthink: Study shows why ideas spread in social networks

The Group Dynamics That Define Well-Functioning Boards

How to Increase Psychological Safety in a Virtual Team

How Fearless Organizations Succeed

Why we need to kick incivility out of the office

Reframing imposter phenomenon by Rageshri Dhairyawan

Four Ways To Help Women Become Leaders

Company Culture Is Everyone’s Responsibility

Want a Company With More Integrity? Leaders Set the Tone

Facilitating Emergence and Sensemaking in Organizations

Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance

Tribes And Tribal Conflicts In A Tech Company

Standing Out While Fitting In

So your workplace is toxic: how can you fix it?

How the CEO of Samsung SDS sets a course for ‘humble and speedy’

Why more managers need to understand psychological safety, what it is and how to create it

Team Development in the Era of Slack

Creating Sustainable Performance

Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of flux

Psychological Containment: A Critical Leadership Success Factor

The Hazards of Workplace Anxiety

How Discomfort Makes Us More Creative

Speeding Up Team Learning

Make Civility the Norm on Your Team