Psychological safety is essential to team effectiveness, because it both determines how much team members are willing to contribute and impacts general well-being. Team leaders should understand and measure psychological safety and other critical factors to build great teams.-BY INGRID JOHNSON

Team effectiveness refers to more than meeting goals, though that is certainly one element. How the team reaches those goals is also important, because effectiveness includes elements such as resilience, sustained performance, interdependency, team culture, and psychological safety. A team model that creates an effective team leads to consistent results, engaged team members ....