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...
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...
Westrum’s Cultural Typologies Dr Ron Westrum wrote in the BMJ Quality & Safety Journal in 2004 about The Three Typologies of Organisational Culture He was looking at ...
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...
The Andon Cord: 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 maxim...
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...
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...
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 ...
Yogic Philosophy: Ahimsa and Satya You’ve probably realised by now that I love drawing together ideas from diverse fields and disciplines to examine what they can teach us about psychologi...
Psychological safety, power, and Mary Parker Follett Power dynamics are closely intertwined with psychological safety We’ve highlighted power types and addressing power gradients in other p...
Safety I & Safety II (Also known as Safety 1 and 2) For anyone familiar with the concepts of Resilience Engineering, you may have heard of the work of Erik Hollnagel, who states that “resili...
Personal User Manuals (aka “Personal README” or “Manual of Me”) What is a “Personal User Manual” One of our favourite practices for building psychological safety is...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Inspiration (and mountain biking), more emissions scandals, speaking up, bullying at wor...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Drive, Dissent, and Checklists If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please ...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses sales teams, game theory and the Agile Prime Directive If you enjoy reading this...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses science and experimentation, the Toyota Production System, and meetings If you e...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses making work visible, and rockstar employees Making Work Visible Dominica D...
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,...
Weaponisation of Psychological Safety This week was a bit rubbish to be honest We had a nasty experience when we were the victims of a rather sophisticated fraud attempt It could have been awful, but ...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses “rules”, autism, pushback, leaky buckets, cargo-culting, and more If...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses internal reporting, open secrets, whistleblowing and half-baked ideas If you enj...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses how speaking up sounds different for everyone, and psychological safety looks di...
Last week, the world of psychological safety was kinda quiet, and I wondered if we’d reached “peak psychological safety“, but this week was the opposite – there was so much content about psych...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Conflict, Holding Environments and High Performance Sport If you enjoy reading t...
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 c...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses servant leadership, Swedish warships, being “neurodistinct”, and product dev...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses leadership and trust, job role expansion, intersectionality, autonomy, healthcar...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses command-control management, a lot of LEGO, autism, trans inclusion, and spe...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses Strategy, Vision, and Performance Plus psychological safety in healthcare servic...
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...