Free downloads

Guides, toolkits, and templates

Everything below is free to download and use with your team. No sign-up required — we'd rather you spend the time talking than filling out forms.

Guide

The Speak-Up Starter Guide

A 20-page introduction to psychological safety: what it is, what it isn't, and the five conditions that make people willing to raise their hand. The best place to begin.

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Toolkit

Meeting Unmuter Toolkit

Eleven facilitation techniques that pull quiet voices into the room — silent brainstorming, round-robins, devil's advocate rotation, and more — each with a one-page how-to.

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Template

Feedback Loop Tracker

A simple spreadsheet template for logging employee feedback, assigning owners, and — most importantly — publishing what changed because of it.

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Checklist

Manager's One-on-One Checklist

Questions that go beyond "how's it going?" Use it to make one-on-ones the safest, most honest 30 minutes of your team's week.

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Survey

Team Voice Pulse Survey

A ready-to-run 12-question survey that measures how safe your team feels speaking up — plus a scoring guide so you know what the results mean.

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Keep learning

Topics we're often asked about

Psychological safety

The shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. The foundation of every unmuted workplace, and where most of our work begins.

Constructive dissent

Disagreement is a feature, not a bug. Learn how healthy teams argue about ideas without arguing about each other.

Upward feedback

The hardest direction for honesty to travel is up. We share practical ways for leaders to make it safe — and worth it — to tell them the truth.

Want help putting these to work?

Our workshops bring these tools to life with your real team and your real challenges.