Psychological Safety

The foundation of high performance, inclusion, and innovation.

Psychological safety isn’t a buzzword — it’s the bedrock of effective teams and sustainable business performance.

When people feel safe at work, they take smart risks, speak honestly, and contribute fully.

The BeTalent Psychological Safety tool gives organisations a clear, evidence-based picture of how safe people feel to speak up, challenge, make mistakes, and be themselves at work. It turns the invisible dynamics of team culture into tangible data you can act on.

Psychological safety is linked to stronger collaboration, better decision-making, and increased innovation. It also underpins employee wellbeing, engagement, and retention.

But psychological safety doesn’t happen by accident. It needs to be understood, measured, and actively nurtured.

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  • When people feel safe at work, they take smart risks, speak honestly, and contribute fully. Psychological Safety is linked to stronger collaboration, better decision-making, and increased innovation through a greater interest in learning and engaging with divergent thinking. It also underpins employee wellbeing, engagement, and retention.

    But psychological safety doesn’t happen by accident. It needs to be understood, measured, and actively nurtured.

    Create high-trust teams where people feel safe to speak up, innovate, and perform with a validated, evidence-based tool that measures and improves psychological safety, essential for inclusion, performance, and innovation.

  • Created by our team of organisational psychologists and rigorously validated to meet BPS standards, the BeTalent Psychological Safety tool assesses 10 dichotomous aspects with positive and negative indicators.

    These insights allow you to identify cultural strengths and pinpoint areas where teams or leaders may unintentionally be creating barriers to safety. The path to hell is often paved with good intention…

    • High-trust cultures: Build teams where people feel safe to share, innovate, and collaborate.

    • Fair & inclusive environments: Ensure every voice is heard and valued.

    • High performance: Directly improve engagement, retention, and productivity.

    • Scalable framework: Apply team-by-team or organisation-wide to embed lasting change.

    Delivery meets real-world impact:

    Santander embedded Psychological Safety across leadership, driving measurable improvements in trust, inclusion, and innovation.

    Network Rail used BeTalent Psychological Safety and achieved a 62% uplift in engagement, moving from the lowest tier to the top quartile.

    The Environment Agency used BeTalent Psychological Safety and Strengths to simplify capability frameworks and embed a culture of inclusion, achieving 98% acceptance across senior managers.

    • Individual, team member and summary level reports: Clear, accessible outputs with real-world language and insights

    • Group data: Compare results across teams, departments, or functions

    • Development recommendations: Evidence-based actions to strengthen safety, trust, and inclusion, at individual or team level

    • Workshop facilitation (optional): Bring data to life through expert-guided team conversations with our psychologist team, or you can become Accredited to deploy the tool and drive a climate of increased Psychological Safety yourself

    Whether you're navigating cultural change, leading transformation, or building inclusive leadership capability, this tool gives you the data and evidence you need to create lasting impact.

  • Use BeTalent Psychological Safety for:

    • Team effectiveness: Build openness and trust within teams.

    • Innovation culture: Encourage bold ideas and constructive challenge.

    • Diversity & inclusion: Diagnose and improve inclusivity in action.

    • Cultural transformation: Track progress toward an open, safe culture.

    Unlock innovation, inclusion, and sustainable high performance.

    Measure → Discuss → Act → Track

    • Assessment – Survey teams to measure psychological safety.

    • Feedback & insight – Share clear reports of strengths and risks.

    • Facilitated dialogue – Explore barriers and opportunities together.

    • Action & measurement – Commit to actions and monitor progress over time.

    Embed learning by deploying an ‘ambassador’ model and the BeTalent Psychological Safety Playbook. Measure sustainable impact with the BeTalent Psychological Safety Pulse (coming soon!)

    • Designed, validated and tested using the BPS standards and submitted for their independent verification

    • Designed specifically to assess organisations climate

    • Grounded in inclusion, ethics, and practical impact

    • Easy to deploy across remote, hybrid, or in-person teams, at scale

    • Used by progressive organisations across sectors and geographies

  • BeTalent Whitepaper 2021: What contributes to a psychologically safe environment?

    BeTalent Whitepaper 2020: Building resilience and creating psychologically safe and healthy work practices

    Leading with Perspective: How Psychological Safety Fuels a Thriving Feedback Culture

    Leading with Perspective: When Psychological Safety Goes Too Far

    Leading with Perspective: Engagement Derailed: Getting Network Rail Back on Track

    Leading with Perspective: Cognitive Diversity and Psychological Safety Lessons from Space

Create environments where people speak up, step up, and stay.

Contact us to explore the BeTalent Psychological Safety tool or book a demo: Book a call

Or to find out more about how some of our clients are using the tool: Case studies

  • "The Psychological Safety product made sense because the behavioural diagnostics and interviews helped us to identify what was wrong with the behavioural models we were working with so that we could address issues with complex structure, historical baggage both internally and externally."

    Catherine Hall, Senior Advisor, Environment Agency

  • "Psychological Safety and Resilience are great tools for me to use not only to nurture an ethos of self-awareness and resilience across our business, but to diagnose interesting aspects of culture that we can celebrate or improve. The BeTalent tools are accessible and simple to use, together with interesting and engaging accreditation sessions with the opportunity for discussion with likeminded peers."

    Group HR Director, Brooks Macdonald

  • “The benefit we’ve seen is that we’re actively shaping a workplace culture that will attract and retain the best talent. So it’s positioning us to thrive in the long term.”

    Laura McLean, Strategic People Solutions Manager, Santander

  • "We used the Psychological Safety questionnaire in a church setting, to help us get a realistic assessment of the health of our leadership team and how we function together. Using a 'tool' meant we swiftly got to the heart of issues that would have otherwise taken a long time to reach. We were reassured and encouraged by so much of what we learnt, and felt on a good foundation to take further steps forward."

    Kat Bracewell, Minister, Windsor Baptist Church