VEBRO
This is a free educational download. Print the worksheets for your own team, but please don’t resell or redistribute it as a paid product.
What’s inside
You were promoted because you were good at the work. Now one of your strongest levers is whether your team feels safe telling you the truth, and most of that is decided before anyone speaks up.
- Days 1–7Listen & Map1:1 kickoff script, team voice map, 5-question pulse
- Days 8–14Make It Safe to SpeakMeeting norms, disagreement protocol, bad-news script
- Days 15–21Fail ForwardBlameless debrief, supervisor after-action review, learning log
- Days 22–30Lock It InWeekly rhythm card, recognition prompts, 90-day sustain checklist
Plus weekly checklists, a Day 30 reflection, email and Slack templates, a printable wallet card, and sources for further reading.
About Dr. Brown
Vernon Brown, Ph.D., Ed.D., is a leadership and organizational psychologist specializing in psychological safety, leadership, and organizational climate, and Professor of Applied Behavioral Sciences at The University of Arizona Global Campus. A U.S. Navy veteran with more than three decades of government service, including twenty-two years on active duty as a Sailor and Navy Chief, he studies psychological safety among federal employees at both the employee and supervisor levels.
He is the author of the forthcoming book The Supervisor Effect and founded Vebro Solutions to turn that research into practical tools for supervisors, leaders, educators, and researchers.
Learn more at vern.in.
Educational resource only—not legal, HR, clinical, or mental-health advice.