Speak up in a low-safety room
Select a safer path for raising a high-stakes concern when psychological safety is low.
Low safety A sponsor has dismissed dissent twice. The team is about to approve a shortcut that may affect customer response time. The risk still matters, but the path has to lower avoidable threat. Safer candor Question-form PREP In low-safety rooms, frame the concern as a bounded risk check: point, reason, example, question. React Call out the sponsor or stay silent. The concern enters without becoming a status fight. Psychological safety is low, so make the risk easier to hear: specific, brief, and tied to the shared goal. 01 Pre-wire 02 Frame 03 Ask Before the meeting You know the…
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