“Sociological” Safety By Tom Geraghty The term psychological safety has been in use since Carl Rogers’ work in the 1950s and was applied to organisational contexts by Schein and Bennis (among others) in the 1960s. Since Amy Edmondson’s influential research
The Andon Cord It’s been a busy week with workshops and talks, so this week we’re revisiting the Andon Cord. Probably my favourite real-world psychological safety practice, the Andon Cord is a brilliant approach to quality improvement. A fundamental part
Academic fraud, data and dishonesty When I was studying ecology at undergraduate level, I maybe naively believed that academic research and the peer review process was the most robust and rigorous way to discover, evaluate, and build knowledge. As work,
Being Approachable By Jade Garratt Most of us would probably like to think of ourselves as approachable at work. We might have bad moments, or bad days, but we will likely think that on the whole, we are approachable. Approachability
Personal Experiences of Psychological Safety through Education By Beatriz Poyton In schools, psychological safety is hard to create but easy to destroy. My own feelings of psychological safety, and willingness to put myself and my ideas forward at school were
Team performance isn’t the only reason that we foster psychological safety. We also do it because we want people to feel fulfilled in their jobs, we don’t want people to leave a team because they don’t feel included, we want people to experience less unnecessary stress and have greater mental wellbeing, we want to foster greater diversity and inclusion. Ultimately, we foster psychological safety because it’s fundamentally the right thing to do.
The Whitehall Studies and The Social Gradient of Health The relationship between seniority/status and psychological safety is strong. In general, we know that people holding more senior and higher status roles often feel safer speaking up in groups, and those
We cannot adequately respond to changes, incidents or threats if we’re operating at capacity. And it applies to people, machines, computers, traffic and more – whether you’re running a factory floor, a busy kitchen, a software development team, or a hospital ER, percentage utilisation is impacting how well your team can adapt to a changing environment.
