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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
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)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Psychological Safety In The Workplace
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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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Westrum’s Organisational Culture

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 ...

October 14, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Team Charters

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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Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Psychological Safety In The Workplace
Psychological Safety: The Andon Cord

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...

September 30, 2022
Dr Richard Cook
Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Dr Richard Cook: How Complex Systems Fail

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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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
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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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Yogic Philosophy

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...

September 6, 2022
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Power and Mary Parker Follett

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...

August 26, 2022
Safety I vs Safety II
Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Safety I & Safety II

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...

August 19, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Personal User Manuals

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...

August 12, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: When Everything Seems To Be Against You…

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...

August 5, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Drive, Dissent and Checklists

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 ...

July 29, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 69: Coffee’s for Closers!

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...

July 22, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 68: Science!

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...

July 15, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Making Work Visible

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...

July 8, 2022
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Human Organisational Performance (HOP)  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Psychological Safety In The Workplace
Brooke’s Law: The Mythical Man Month

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,...

July 1, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Weaponisation of Psychological Safety

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 ...

June 24, 2022
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Psychological Safety 64: Rules

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...

June 17, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 63: Open Secrets & Half-Baked Ideas

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...

June 10, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Speaking Up: Neurodiversity & Dyspraxia

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...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety 61: Startups and Inclusion

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...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 60: Conflict and Holding Environments

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...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Theory and Research
Ecotones & The Edge Effect

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...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Servant Leadership

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...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Capacities of Leadership

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...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Command & Control

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...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Vision and Strategy

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...

June 6, 2022
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