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Measure  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
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April 13, 2023
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Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Theory and Research
Psychological Safety in Aviation

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...

April 7, 2023
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Psychological Safety: Just Culture and the Met Police

Welcome to the Psychological Safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You’re amazing Having tried switching to a biweekly pattern, I’m now experimenting with alternating short-form and...

March 31, 2023
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Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Theory and Research
Psychological Safety & Giving Feedback

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 o...

March 24, 2023
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Cognitive Load and Psychological Safety

Psychological Safety #101 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 ...

March 16, 2023
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Psychological Safety and Privilege

AKA: When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression  Not everyone is a fan of psychological safety Sometimes that’s because people don’t yet understand what it...

February 24, 2023
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Conway’s Law

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” th...

February 17, 2023
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Resilience Engineering

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 le...

February 10, 2023
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Edgar Schein’s Three Layers of Organisational Culture

1- Artefacts These describe any overt, visible, describable aspects of the organisation Think things like branding and logos, office design, dress code, policies and tools Things that you can see 2-...

February 3, 2023
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Work as Imagined vs Work as Done

Work as Imagined vs Work as Done In last week’s newsletter about human error, we looked at why and how people make mistakes One of the categories of error we explored was ...

January 27, 2023
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Types of Human Error

Human Error We’ve covered failures before, but this week we’re focusing on errors Failures can be preventable, complex, or  “intelligent” – such as those resultin...

January 20, 2023
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Psychological Safety & Agile

Agile It seems like the word “Agile” gets thrown about a lot Sometimes it refers to a more flexible approach to working hours and locations, sometimes it refers to Scrum practice...

January 13, 2023
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Lean Coffee

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 ...

January 6, 2023
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Psychological Safety: The Top 7

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses the top seven issues of 2022 Find out which ones were most popular below, a...

December 30, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Static work vs Generative work

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 ...

December 23, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses artificial intelligence and psychological safety Psychological safety and safety...

December 16, 2022
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Zero Defects

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses the way in which aiming for zero defects can actually result in more defects, no...

December 9, 2022
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Tuckman’s Model

Tuckman’s Model We’ve recently covered team size, Dunbars number, and the effect that team sizes has on performance and psychological safety In this issue, we’re going to t...

December 2, 2022
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Prepare to: Measure Psychological Safety.

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 Measu...

November 25, 2022
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Psychological Safety, Failure & Human Factors

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses failure archetypes, human factors, more Elon Musk, stinky fish and more Hum...

November 18, 2022
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Learning From Failure

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 Extrem...

November 11, 2022
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Guardrails and Failure

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...

November 4, 2022
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Can a team be too psychologically safe?

Can a team be too psychologically safe A question I get asked in many (maybe even most) workshops is “Can a team be too psychologically safe” Or sometimes framed, “What’s the impact o...

October 28, 2022
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Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Dunbar’s Number, Psychological Safety and Team Size

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 po...

October 21, 2022
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Westrum’s Organisational Culture

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October 14, 2022
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Team Charters  In a previous newsletter, we discussed “personal readmes” or “user manuals” (and if you found them useful, you probably want to check out this issue’s sponsor, C...

October 7, 2022
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September 30, 2022
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Dr Richard Cook I was recently saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Richard Cook, and felt it appropriate that I dedicate this issue of the newsletter to Richard and his achievements I was...

September 23, 2022
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1-1 Meetings

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses 1-1 meetings, diversity, experiments, scrum masters and design principles 1-1 Me...

September 16, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Non-Violent Communication

Non-Violent Communication Last week, in talking about the Yamas and Niyamas from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, I mentioned Non-Violent Communication (NVC), and I thought it’d be good ...

September 9, 2022
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