Psychological Safety¶
First course in Naming the Calibration. Course 08 — 9 lessons across 3 modules.
The course in KCG's curriculum that reframes psychological safety from a feeling-state to a calibration problem. The deepest course in the methodology arc, operating on the governance layer that determines what every other framework's interventions are evaluated against.
Modules¶
| # | Module | Lessons |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Misdiagnosis | 01 The phrase we don't question · 02 When perception becomes evidence · 03 How calibration becomes culture |
| 2 | The Tax on Variance | 04 The misclassification problem · 05 The masking tax · 06 Cross-system pattern recognition |
| 3 | From Recognition to Redesign | 07 The human cost · 08 The economic cost · 09 The calibration question and commitment |
Source: ~/Documents/GitHub/kcg-client-portal-courses/08-psychological-safety/
Signature practices¶
The curriculum is in the source course; this section names the practices and links to the lessons that teach them.
- Naming the masking tax — names sustained non-native-communication performance as an organizational cost rather than an individual performance issue; runs in parallel with the actual work as four loops (tone monitoring, micro-expression scanning, real-time editing, post-interaction auditing) and compounds into burnout or exit if unaddressed. See Masking tax, Self-gaslighting (system-induced); source: lesson
05-module-2-the-masking-tax.md. - The Calibration Question — is your system calibrated to protect contribution, or to protect familiarity? Most organizations believe they run the first system and run the second. See Calibration question, Misclassification (in psychological safety); source: lesson
09-module-3-the-calibration-question-and-commitment.md. - The four structural commitments of evidence-based systems — defined metrics, transparent thresholds, separation of interpretation from information, willingness to examine calibration. See Evidence-based system (psychological safety); source: lesson
09-module-3-the-calibration-question-and-commitment.md. - The seven-day commitment move — one concrete action, specific enough to implement within seven days, in a system the leader controls. The criterion is specificity, not ambition. Source: lesson
09-module-3-the-calibration-question-and-commitment.md.