BeTalent Psychological Safety
Understand whether your people feel safe to speak up, challenge, and be heard
A scientifically validated psychological safety diagnostic that shows when your working climate enables open challenge, and when trust breaks down into silence.
Psychological safety shapes how teams perform
Psychological safety is not about comfort. It shapes whether people speak up, challenge ideas, admit mistakes, and contribute fully.
In many organisations, the signs are easy to miss. Ideas are held back, concerns go unspoken, and decisions move forward without real challenge.
Over time, this affects collaboration, learning, and performance. But it is rarely obvious where the issue sits, or what is driving it. By the time it is visible, silence and blame have already taken hold.
This is where measurement becomes critical.
“The diagnostics and interviews helped us to identify what was wrong with our behavioural models, so that we could address issues with complex structure and historical baggage.”
-Catherine Hall, Senior Advisor, Environment Agency
A more objective view of psychological safety
BeTalent Psychological Safety provides a structured view of how it is experienced across teams, reducing reliance on perception and bias, and moving beyond engagement surveys to show where it is enabling or limiting contribution.
How the BeTalent Psychological Safety Assessment Works
BeTalent Psychological Safety is a structured diagnostic that shows how safe people feel to contribute within their team.
It captures the factors that shape trust, openness, and interpersonal risk, helping you see where psychological safety is strong, where it is inconsistent, and where it may be breaking down.
Developed by organisational psychologists and rigorously validated, the assessment measures
10 dimensions
of psychological safety
Each dimension provides insight into how people experience trust, inclusion, and open challenge within their team.
Understanding psychological safety over time
What Pulse adds
Individuals receive tailored actions and ongoing nudges, while organisations gain anonymised insights to identify trends and target more immediate support.
Psychological Safety Pulse
Provides a short, repeatable measure of how psychologically safe people feel at a particular point in time, making it easy to monitor change over time.
Use BeTalent Psychological Safety
Provides a detailed understanding of the climate people are working in, including the conditions that support speaking up, learning, challenge and inclusion.
When to use BeTalent Psychological Safety
BeTalent Psychological Safety is most valuable in moments where understanding how people experience their environment across teams and the wider organisation can directly influence decision-making, collaboration, and performance.
During organisational change
Periods of change often increase uncertainty and reduce willingness to speak up.
Use BeTalent Psychological Safety to understand where openness and trust are being affected across teams and functions, helping leaders identify where communication, involvement, and challenge may be breaking down.
When engagement scores are low or unclear
Low engagement scores often signal that something is not working, but they rarely show why.
BeTalent Psychological Safety helps uncover what sits beneath the data, identifying where trust, openness, and contribution may be breaking down across teams and the wider organisation.
During challenging or high-stakes situations
In environments where blame, defensiveness, or pressure begin to shape behaviour, people are less likely to speak up, challenge decisions, or admit mistakes.
BeTalent Psychological Safety helps identify where this is happening, giving leaders clearer insight into where trust and openness need to be rebuilt.
When decision-making lacks challenge
Alignment does not always mean agreement.
The assessment highlights where ideas are not being tested, where concerns are not raised, and where decisions may be moving forward without sufficient challenge across teams or levels.
As part of leadership development
Leaders shape how safe people feel to contribute, both within their teams and across the organisation.
The assessment helps leaders understand how their behaviour is experienced, and where shifts in approach can strengthen openness, trust, and contribution more broadly.
To understand organisational dynamics
Psychological safety is not experienced consistently across an organisation.
Gain a clearer view of where individuals, teams, or functions feel more or less able to contribute, enabling more targeted conversations and coordinated action.
For ongoing monitoring between assessments, use Psychological Safety Pulse to track how psychological safety is changing over time.
What this gives you
Clear, actionable insight
Individual and group-level reports that translate complex data into clear, practical insight on how psychological safety is experienced across teams and the wider organisation.
A shared language of safety
A consistent framework that helps leaders and teams understand psychological safety, discuss it openly, and take informed action.
Focused development
Clear, evidence-based recommendations that help leaders and teams take action to strengthen trust, openness, and contribution.
Flexible delivery
Delivered with expert support from our team of psychologists or embedded within your organisation through accreditation.
Deliver it with your organisation
Our Psychological Safety Accreditation equips internal teams to confidently deliver assessments, interpret results, and support development at scale.
Our Work with Psychological Safety
Learn how other organisations have benefited from BeTalent Psychological Safety. Here are just a select few case studies showcasing our work.
Turning psychological safety into Santander’s competitive edge
With BeTalent by Zircon’s expertise, Santander transformed psychological safety from theory into everyday practice, empowering leaders, strengthening inclusion, and elevating customer experience across the business.
Unlocking performance with the power of psychological safety
BeTalent by Zircon helped Network Rail’s RICoE ignite a 62% surge in engagement by building a culture of trust, confidence, and strengths-driven leadership.
Turning pressure into performance at the Environment Agency
Under intense public and government scrutiny, the Environment Agency enlisted BeTalent’s help to cut complexity, supercharge collaboration, and deliver faster, safer flood defence solutions.Built on robust psychological science
BeTalent Psychological Safety is developed by organisational psychologists and grounded in research on how people experience trust, voice, and challenge within their working environment.
Validated to BPS standards
Designed for real workplace application
Grounded in inclusion, ethics, and practical impact
Discover some of the research that underpins BeTalent Psychological Safety
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Assessing Psychological Safety: Correlates of a New Scale
Adrian Furnham, George Horne, Jessica Ross, Amanda Potter
This paper reports empirical research conducted with Professor Adrian Furnham examining the relationship between Psychological Safety, leadership characteristics, and employee wellbeing. Using validated Psychological Safety and resilience measures, the study explores how leadership stability, emotional regulation, and relational factors relate to people’s experience of safety at work.
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What Contributes to a Psychologically Safe Environment
BeTalent by Zircon Whitepaper
Many leaders are looking for ways to strengthen unity, stability, and cohesion as teams navigate the pressures of modern working life. This whitepaper explores how everyday working climates influence performance, wellbeing, and belonging. It outlines the development of the Psychological Safety Questionnaire, which assesses individual experiences across ten key aspects of psychological safety. The insights support leaders and teams in understanding how collective behaviours shape trust, engagement, and more resilient working environments.
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Building Resilience & Creating Psychological Safety
BeTalent by Zircon whitepaper
Many organisations are seeking ways to support wellbeing and prevent burnout as work becomes more demanding and complex. This whitepaper explores resilience as a dynamic capability shaped by individual characteristics, social support, and workplace environments. Drawing on large-scale research and practitioner insight, it examines the factors that enhance or inhibit resilience, the prevalence of burnout, and the role of psychological safety in enabling healthier, more sustainable performance under pressure.
