Why Just Culture Isn’t Sticking by Tom Geraghty What Do We Mean by “Just” Culture? The concept of a “Just Culture” was first developed in James Reason’s 1997 book Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents. When we say “Just Culture”,
Reducing Power Gradients By Jade Garratt In our experience, the most effective lever for increasing psychological safety within a team is flattening the power gradient – the gap between those with the most power and those with the least. In
Work doesn’t have to suck By Jade Garratt The start of a new year seems like a good time to reflect on how work feels, and how we feel about work. For too many of us, going to work isn’t
The increase in awareness and popularity of psychological safety I thought it would be interesting to look at the frequency of the search term “psychological safety” over time, and map certain events onto that. If you head to Google Trends,
Psychological safety is about creating a climate in which we feel able to take interpersonal risks in order to communicate our ideas, concerns and issues – and we want to be able to speak up in a way that we
Introduction As a result of the ever-increasing scale and complexity of healthcare systems, hierarchies and layers of management have become increasingly necessary (Kumar, 2021). These facilitate operational capability, both in terms of scale and complexity, but also lead to sometimes
Making it safe(r) to fail in teaching By Jade Garratt, Director of Education, Iterum Years ago, I was lucky enough to teach in an amazing secondary school English department. Teachers’ enthusiasm for developing their practice was infectious and there was
Civility Saves Lives If you wanted to completely destroy any psychological safety in the group, what would you do? If you wanted to create a culture of fear, where nobody felt safe to speak up, suggest ideas, highlight concerns, or
Psychological Safety at Work Lean and psychological safety Here’s a great analysis by Ben Hutchinson of a paper examining the relationship between Lean and psychological safety in construction projects in the US. This combines two of my favourite subjects so
Selection Pressure and Psychological Safety Why has it taken so long for some industries to recognise the importance of psychological safety, whilst others have been doing it for decades? One possible answer: selection pressure. Over the past few decades, the
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.
Understanding and Implementing the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) This week we’re having a look at the new NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Whilst this is clearly relevant to our UK healthcare readers, I believe that the
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 this newsletter, please share it via your social networks and/or forward it to other people who may
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 services, alongside inclusion and belonging, digital transformation and more.If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it via your social
Psychological Safety In the Workplace: I often highlight the work of Paul O’Neill at Alcoa in workshops and talks in order to elucidate the dynamics between cultures of safety and the broader organisational benefits that occur as a result. This is a great paper by Yueng-HsiangHuang et al that
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are awesome. This week includes performance reviews, emergency medicine, mentoring, the future of work, kindness and affective vs cognitive trust..Enjoy, and have a wonderful day. If you enjoy reading this
Psychological safety plays a key role in healthcare and clinical teams, and indeed is the domain in which some of the foundational research by Dr Amy Edmondson was conducted. Here is a selection of excellent resources, studies and examples of psychological safety in healthcare and medicine.
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