Source: PowerLabs

As part of our learning process, we need to learn how to fail forward. Besides lessons from the past and context analysis, we also need psychological safety to take risks.

PowerLab produced a training specifically on team learning, psychological safety and productive failure. They define psychological safety as the shared belief, held by its members, that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.

Within this framework, they identify three kinds of failure: preventable failure, complex failure, and intelligent failure. They then give some hints about how to address each kind of failure.

We find this tool very useful to experiment and test new strategies and tactics, as part of the Action Learning Cycle.

You can watch their full training Introduction to psychological safety: A prerequisite for team learning and high performance here: https://climateadvocacylab.org/resource/introduction-psychological-safety-prerequisite-team-learning-and-high-performance-1