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Welcome to the Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment

The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace requires leaders to be competent to manage employees in a way that is psychologically safe. This assessment will help you to identify and strengthen competence in this area.

Employees who work for psychologically safe leaders are more likely to report higher job satisfaction and engagement, better workplace relationships, and better psychological well-being.

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Use the free Workplace Strategies resources to assess and identify leadership strategies for psychological health and safety across five key domains:

Effective communication involves the clear, timely, and transparent exchange of information that supports employees’ success at work. Respectful and inclusive collaboration engages every team member in ongoing conversations related to their work.
Communication and collaboration
Effective social intelligence involves demonstrating and facilitating supportive, safe and inclusive interactions in the workplace, particularly during times of stress or high demand.
Social intelligence
Effective problem solving involves supporting and requiring respectful, solution-focused approaches to challenges. Effective conflict management is conducted in a timely, inclusive and safe manner.
Problem solving and conflict management
Security and safety require proactive, prompt and supportive responses to all threats to psychological and physical safety in the workplace.
Security and safety
Fairness and integrity are core components of psychologically safe leadership. It must be part of communication and decision making. It must consider a range of employee needs, and be unbiased and respectful. Strategies that indicate fairness and integrity were duplicated from the other domains: communication and collaboration, social intelligence, security and safety, problem solving and conflict management. This reinforces fairness and integrity as a critical component of psychologically safe leadership.
Fairness and integrity
Learn more about these key domains Gather input from employees about their objective observations of leader strategies using the Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment: Employee Feedback version. In some cases, the differences are related to a lack of effective communication about leader strategies rather than a lack of effective strategies, and can help direct efforts for improvement.

This resource is designed to be used by:

Support psychological health and safety with a suite of free resources

Each of these resources are available, compliments of Canada Life, through Workplace Strategies for Mental Health and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety:

  • Guarding Minds at Work – organizational level 
  • Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment – leader and manager level 
  • Psychologically Safe Team Assessment – team level 
  • Supporting Employee Success – individual level 

Select the logos to see how each of these tools can make a real difference for your workplace. 

For brief descriptions of these tools, view the FAQ.

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