Lean Coffee and Agenda-less Meetings Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope 2023 has started well for you and you’re excited for the year ahead Next week, we have some big announcements to make, but to keep you going until […]...
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...
Stopping The Line Being able to “stop the line” to prevent an issue getting worse, stop a defect passing downstream, suggest an idea for improvement when it can endow maximum benefit, or ask for help in the heat of the […]...
Whether organisations like to admit it or not, toxic work culture is still a major problem A study from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that any workplace, which holds some form of toxicity and hostility, will likely see […]...
“You should know that already” “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions” “Who’s to blame for this” “We cannot get this wrong” “There will be zero mistakes on this project” eye roll “Don’t be so negative” &#...
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions The 6 Cultural Dimensions is a framework in cross-cultural psychology developed by Geert Hofstede It elucidates the influence of a society’s culture on its members’ values and behaviors using a structure derived from factor analysis This theory [&hell...
Last June, Psych Safety Day made its US debut in New York City, with Brooklyn as our home base and a gorgeous cafe in Greenpoint as a warm, LGBTQ‑friendly meeting spot Despite the sweltering heat and stifling humidity, practitioners and researchers […]...
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...
