The Mythical Man Month Thanks to Amy Edmondson for the signpost to this tweet from George Orosz, who describes the damage that can be done when managers don’t trust in their team, or don’t understand the difference between “I’m updating you” and R...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Ecotones and the Edge Effect, as well as polarisation at work, relational contracts and internal conferences If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it vi...
Psychological Safety 101: the fundamentals In the constant change of modern workplaces, the concept of psychological safety has emerged as a key concept for fostering innovative, resilient, and highly effective teams This foundational element of team dynamics, first brought into […]...
As a leader, or a member of a team, you’re probably pretty good at creating a psychologically safe environment where performance is high and people can flourish Providing clarity of expectations, goals, team behaviours, and exhibiting generative leadership practices may […]...
Ever since Google’s Project Aristotle in 2013, we’ve been able to recognise that psychological safety is the foundation for high performing teams This is an ever-evolving collection of articles, papers and resources on psychological safety in relation to technology, software […]...
Why do you want to foster greater psychological safety in your organisation To improve employee retention To increase productivity Reduce risk Improve innovation Or simply because it’s the right thing to do for people I often talk about the business […]...
I’ve had managers who said this to me in the past, and I’ve said it myself It seems, on the face of it, to be a wise suggestion Ask your people to think about solutions to the problems they encounter […]...
Psychological Safety in Education Resource Bank In our weekly psychological safety newsletter, we regularly share links to resources and articles about psychological safety in schools, universities and academic institutions This page is a resource bank with an evolving collection of […]...
Psychological safety plays a key role in healthcare and clinical teams, and indeed is the domain in which some of the foundational research by Dr Amy Edmondson was conducted Here is a selection of excellent resources, studies and examples of psychological safety in healthcare and medicine...
Digital Transformation originally referred to the transition of an organisation towards delivering its products and services via digital or technological means, from a traditional physical or analogue delivery system For example, Netflix transitioning from posting DVDs to your house, to […]...
How often do you find yourself anxious and afraid to start something in case you fail, in case you’re not doing it “right”, or in case it doesn’t have the result you expect Psychological safety makes it safe to fail, […]...
Silence in a meeting can be a warning sign of very low psychological safety, but that’s not always, or even usually, the case We all have our own, very different, preferences for how we speak up, contribute and communicate, especially […]...
After doing the psychological safety team performance exercise, you may want to workshop with your team to establish how you’re going to build psychological safety in the team Whilst there are some standard and ubiquitous approaches to building psychological safety, […]...
Psychological safety is an emergent phenomenon: a property and state of a group that is felt (differently) by members of the group For this reason, it’s a difficult (but worthwhile) concept to study, and many efforts have been made to […]...
Timothy R Clark in his book “The Four Stages Of Psychological Safety” describes a conceptual model of four “stages” of psychological safety that teams can move through, progressing from stage 1 to stage 4 These Four Stages of Psychological Safety […]...
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The Psychological Safety Quadrant Exercise This is a really powerful (and fun!) exercise to qualitatively measure psychological safety, team performance, and work collaboratively to increase both, via a workshop that can be carried out remotely or in-person This is really […]...
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I get asked a lot if I can help out with presentation content for internal training, talks or similar, so here is a slide deck for a psychological safety presentation that I’ve delivered a number of times and you’re welcome […]...
Meetings, whether in-person or virtual (or the worst kind – a hybrid of the two, where some attendees are together in a room, and the others are remote), are a fact of life for many of us In fact, many […]...
