Fostering Psychological Safety in Virtual Teams

The small moments that used to stitch teams together are gone. There is no quiet walk back from a meeting room, no quick read of a colleague's expression across a table, no reassuring tap on the shoulder after a tough call. When work moved online, the task list survived, but many of the cues that tell us we are safe with each other did not. Organizations face a choice. They can treat psychological safety as a soft concept, something that matters only when teams are already performing well. Or...