Safe working culture

We know that a psychologically safe team/work environment produces better results, makes people happier to come to work and makes Storio Group a better place to work. For that reasons we are trying to capture how we know we are in a safe work environment.

In a psychologically safe work environment you:

are comfortable to make mistakes and learn
can discuss personal things
feel comfortable and empowered to push back
feel comfortable to discuss openly in Retrospectives
feel comfortable to discuss problems within the team
feel promises are being kept
feel safe to appropriately challenge solutions / decisions
feel safe to escalate issue to the IT leadership team
feel safe to escalate issues to your manager
feel safe to express disagreement with to ELT
feel safe to express disagreement with to LT
feel safe to express disagreement with your manager
feel safe to give 1:1 constructive direct feedback
feel safe to give 1:1 positive direct feedback
feel safe to give constructive direct feedback in a team or group meeting
feel safe to give positive direct feedback in a team or group meeting
feel safe to make mistakes (fail)
feel safe to share knowledge within IT in a public forum
feel safe to take team/ IT/ company surveys
feel that your feedback / critique is used / acted upon or at least reacted to
feel your feedback is being acted on
have a Healthy Work/Life Balance
have job safety
promote a healthy environment
recognize strong performances
think it is safe to experiment and fail
think it is safe to give your opinion and have healthy conflicts
think it is safe to share personal things with peers