I wonder if the same effect holds true if a team is made up of mostly confident/brash people, or if safety-to-project-yourself can be trained and elevated independent of any other aspect of social environment.
Maybe improv classes or subsidizing employees to exhibit art or publicly perform music?
False dichotomy. You can be confident, brash, and rude to each other all day long, as long as everyone is in on it and everyone is socially intelligent enough to know each other's boundaries.
The problem is when people tell themselves "that's just how I am" and don't have a high enough EQ to notice that they're coming across as jerks.
Everyone is different and everyone requires a personal touch. It's important for people to understand how to get along with those who aren't exactly like them.
Didn't mean to assert a dichotomy, more wondering whether the size of the effect of importance of emotional safety for expressive freedom varies with some kind of external measure of confidence
Yes, and maybe practicing public speaking can make [those who otherwise might not say anything], participate more in meetings and letting others hear their good ideas
There are plenty of shy musicians and theatre performers. When you're on stage you've been explicitly given permission to perform a role, makes it possible for people to put their shyness aside
Maybe the improv world is different, I've never done improv (yet)
Maybe improv classes or subsidizing employees to exhibit art or publicly perform music?