Psychological safety in the workplace isn’t a topic you should sleep on—let’s explore the reasons why. For starters, the majority of people practice general safety naturally on a daily basis. 

🛒 We lock our cars in the grocery store parking lot. 

📱 We password protect our phones, laptops, Wi-Fi networks, etc. 

🤝 We maintain close friendships with people that we trust. 

But what happens when safety is lacking in an environment that we can’t necessarily control? 

For example, let’s take a look at a work-related situation with a make-believe employee—we’ll name her Susan. Susan is a new employee who is excited to bring her ideas to the table. She comes across an ongoing company issue and takes the initiative to brainstorm a solution to fix it. However, when she brings her solution to light during a team meeting, her co-workers roll their eyes and dismiss her idea without a second thought. 

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Hanlon’s Razor might sound like a hygiene device from Star Wars, but it’s got nothing to do with facial hair or the Millennium Falcon—we promise. 

Instead, Hanlon’s Razor is all about minimizing our assumptions and seeing other people’s motives in a positive light. It’s a rule of thumb that we can use to think clearly and rationally, and it’s an especially valuable tool at work. 

Everyone deserves to be treated with fairness and understanding, and if you can do that for the people on your team, it will pay off exponentially, not just in positive vibes, but in productivity and quality work. Because let’s face it—when you ask someone to describe their ideal work partner, terms like “paranoid” and “suspicious” aren’t likely to come to mind. 

So let’s get into it—we’ll explain what Hanlon’s Razor is, why it’s so powerful, and how you can use it not just to see the best in your colleagues, but to be a better coworker yourself!

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Remember the good ol’ days of group projects in school? You know, when nobody seemed to care, at least one member of the group ghosted the project entirely, and somehow one person ended up doing all the work? 

One thing they never told you in school: the group project scenario never really goes away. And if you’re a manager, it’s your job to make sure the work gets distributed fairly and evenly and everyone cares equally about the task at hand. 

So how do you get the rest of your team to “buy in?”