Psychological Safety, Aviation Disasters and Crew Resource Management This week I’ve been reading “Confronting Mistakes” by Jan Hagen This is a fantastic book, focusing on the human factors behind a multitude of aviation incidents Jan highlights how miscommunication and&n...
Providing constructive feedback is one powerful way you can help people excel, achieve their goals and be happier in their work Done well, it can create psychological safety and help teams and organisations perform at their best However, feedback can […]...
Contributed by Carolyn McKanders and Robert Garmston Teachers meet continuously as an expected part of school duties They meet in pairs,in faculty groups, departments and grade level meetings Facilitation practices arenecessary in all these venues Essential to meeting success and […]...
What does Cognitive Load have to do with Psychological Safety Psychological safety helps to reduce our cognitive load by allowing us to ask for help and worry less about the interpersonal risks we take Conversely, high cognitive load can mean […]...
What is Conway’s Law This week we’re diving into the concept of Conway’s Law, and its relation to psychological safety Conway’s Law essentially describes the “force” that means how a team or organisation is structured will affect what the organisation […]...
Resilience Engineering Today we’re diving into the field of Resilience Engineering This subject ticks a lot of my interest boxes: from complexity and sociotechnicality to psychological safety and leadership I hope you find it interesting too! Resilience Engineering is a […]...
Team charters are a fantastic way of creating alignment, cohesion and psychological safety in a team They also help to onboard new team members, and enable teams to work together more effectively This Psychological Safety Practice Playbook Add-on for the […]...
Lean Coffee and Agenda-less Meetings In this issue, we’re discussing a way to run effective, agenda-less meetings, which helps to foster psychologically safe environments by ensuring everyone has the opportunity to speak up You may have heard of Lean (as in Lean Manufacturing), ...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses how not to be Brent (Static work vs Generative work), plus great resources on autonomy, pedagogy, nursing, software engineering and human factors Static Work vs Generative Wor...
Psychological Safety vs a “Safe Space” This tweet from Amy Edmondson asks a really important question: what’s the difference between “psychological safety” and a “safe space” As Amy says, and as in my experience, the two are often conflat...
Provan’s “safety of work” and “work of safety” are two different ways of thinking about occupational health and safety (OHS) in the workplace While both are essential, understanding their differences and how they interconnect with modern theories like HOP and […]...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses some things to think about before measuring psychological safety Measuring Psychological Safety I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about measuring psycho...
It might be sometimes hard to tell whether people in a team feel psychologically safe, or how safe they feel The more you hear these phrases, more psychologically safe they’re likely to be Indicators of Psychological Safety in a Team […]...
Psychological safety is “The belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes, and that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking” (Edmondson, 1999) Also stated as “A belief that […]...
Psychological safety is “The belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes, and that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking” (Edmondson, 1999) Also stated as “A belief that […]...
With companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Stripe and many others announcing redundancies and layoffs, it’s crucial to consider the impact that this has on both the people who are leaving companies, and the people staying Making people redundant has an […]...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses dealing with learning from incidents, plus Elon Musk, share of voice, and Extreme Negative Feedback We have some new stickers too! These glow in the dark, […]...
Safety Guardrails, Mechanisms and Culture In working with psychological safety, we often touch on “real” or physical safety and how the two are related By “real” safety, I mean not only safety from the risk of injurious accidents but also all […]...
As much as Dunbar's limits on group sizes might seem to be common sense, and reflected in many real world examples, Dunbar's theories on group size boundaries have been deconstructed and shown to possess confidence intervals too large to be robust in the real world That is, group size boundaries...
