Amy Edmondson's 7-question scale measures psychological safety in teams. High scores correlate with better learning, innovation, and performance.
Psychological safety describes the feeling that you can take interpersonal risks in a team — ask questions, admit mistakes, voice ideas — without fear of punishment or humiliation. Amy Edmondson first studied this concept empirically in 1999 and developed the 7-question scale.
Google's "Project Aristotle" confirmed in 2015: psychological safety is the single most important factor for team effectiveness — more important than structure, dependability, or meaning.
Some questions are phrased negatively (e.g. "held against me"). For those, the scale is automatically inverted: "Strongly agree" = low safety.
Rate each statement for your current team
Inspiriert von Amy Edmondson — Psychological Safety