{"id":7066018,"date":"2026-09-24T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/7-deadly-sins-of-psychological-safety-tanmay-vora-visual-thinker-%c2%b7-leadership-coach-%c2%b7-change-facilitator\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:59:09","slug":"7-deadly-sins-of-psychological-safety-tanmay-vora-visual-thinker-%c2%b7-leadership-coach-%c2%b7-change-facilitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7066018","title":{"rendered":"7 Deadly Sins of Psychological Safety &#8211; Tanmay Vora | Visual Thinker \u00b7 Leadership Coach \u00b7 Change Facilitator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Language plays a critical role in fostering psychological safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let me illustrate this by two contrasting examples.\u00a0In one instance, a project manager failed to deliver on an agreed scope, and when senior leaders intervened, the manager was harshly asked, \u201cWho\u2019s standing on the fault line? Whose salary should we deduct for this?\u201d This punitive language created a hostile environment, discouraging openness and learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a different scenario, when a member of my product development team made an error affecting a client\u2019s production database, the leader approached it differently. Instead of blaming, he reiterated his confidence in the team leader saying, \u201cI know we\u2019ve made a mistake, but I\u2019m confident you can quickly fix this before it causes any financial damage.\u201d This response boosted morale and led to a quick resolution. Later, during the retrospective, he asked, \u201cWhat can we learn from this to prevent it from happening again?\u201d This shift from blame to learning fostered reflection and improvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/geraghtytom\/\">Tom Geraghty<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/psychsafety.co.uk\/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-psychological-safety\/\">newsletter on Psychological Safety<\/a> with great interest. In a latest edition, Tom outlines Seven deadly sins of pshchological safety. I highly recommend his newsletter if you are someone who is trying build a psychologically safe culture. (<a href=\"https:\/\/psychsafety.co.uk\/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-psychological-safety\/\">Full post here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Learning to be mindful of our language is key to maturing as leaders. Our words shape workplace culture, either encouraging risk-taking and innovation or stifling initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are seven deadly sins of psychological safety in a visual form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"144_PsySafetySins_800px.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/tanmayvora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/144_PsySafetySins_800px-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1132\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Complement this reading with my earlier post on \u201cConversations that build psychological safety\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/faculty\/Pages\/profile.aspx?facId=6451\">Amy Edmondson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"117_PsySafety_1200px.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/tanmayvora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/117_PsySafety_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"841\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language plays a critical role in fostering psychological safety. Let me illustrate this by two contrasting examples.\u00a0In one instance, a project manager failed to deliver on an agreed scope, and when senior leaders intervened, the manager was harshly asked, \u201cWho\u2019s standing on the fault line? Whose salary should we deduct for this?\u201d This punitive language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227408,96742,12119,227409,138983,227410,12280,99432,203965,115444,144005,104736],"tags":[7001,4449,6813,163689,11655,6819,417,40812,171631,82114,9820,171632],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7066018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amy-edmondson","category-blog","category-communication","category-communication-lessons","category-company-culture","category-culture-building","category-leadership","category-leading-others","category-leading-people","category-psychological-safety","category-sketchnote","category-sketchnotes","tag-change","tag-coach","tag-deadly","tag-facilitator","tag-leadership","tag-psychological","tag-safety","tag-sins","tag-tanmay","tag-thinker","tag-visual","tag-vora"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7 Deadly Sins of Psychological Safety - Tanmay Vora | Visual Thinker \u00b7 Leadership Coach \u00b7 Change Facilitator - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7066018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"7 Deadly Sins of Psychological Safety - Tanmay Vora | Visual Thinker \u00b7 Leadership Coach \u00b7 Change Facilitator - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Language plays a critical role in fostering psychological safety. 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