Feedback Without Fear: How Leaders Build Psychological Safety

What if your feedback conversations helped people feel safer, not smaller?

As a leader, you may have seen the increased focus on psychological safety in the workplace. 

More than ever, your ability to build trust is crucial. Feedback conversations are one of the most powerful ways to create—or damage—psychological safety.

Here’s why:

• Feedback conversations are workplace interactions.

• Interactions that go wrong can become psychosocial hazards.

• You have the power to make them safer and more effective.

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The Feedback Fitness Approach

Psychological safety doesn’t come from avoiding tough conversations. It comes from preparing for them well.

Use the Feedback Fitness Framework:

1. Warm-Up: Build trust first. Talk about feedback before offering any.
   

2. Workout: Offer the most useful kinds of feedback—Acknowledgement, Evaluation, and Guidance.
   

3. Cool Down: Close with care. Reinforce the relationship.

Why Feedback Fitness Matters:

• Safer feedback conversations reduce stress.

• Useful and effective feedback improves performance and engagement.

• Regular feedback keeps your team engaged, growing, and staying.

Start here:

Have you had a warm-up conversation with your team yet?

If not, that’s your next leadership move. Sing out if I can help.

If you’re ready to step into the next, more courageous version of your leadership, let’s set up a time to talk.

📧 sue@sue-anderson.com.au
📞 0417 052 739