The Spectrum of Participation by Jade Garratt Engagement and participation are terms we often throw around to mean “getting people’s take on issues that affect them.” But not all participation is created equal. Sometimes, “inviting participation” amounts to little more
Icebreakers If you’re anything like me, when you see “icebreakers” on an agenda or schedule for a meeting, you immediately become a little anxious. Ice breakers are intended to make us feel more comfortable and at ease, increasing the overall
Verbally Speaking Up at Work Speaking with a client this week, we surfaced an interesting organisational antipattern to psychological safety. Sometimes, within an organisation, there exists an unwritten rule: voice your concerns, but only do it verbally in a call or meeting where
Psychological Safety Behaviours: The Big List (Updated Oct 2025) Psychological safety is a belief that the group is safe for interpersonal risk taking (Edmondson, 1999). There are many ways we can help to foster these environments, but it’s important to
Psychological Safety: Speaking Up at Work Imagine an objectively psychologically safe workplace environment. People are praised, rewarded, and incentivised to speak up with ideas, questions, concerns and mistakes. The whole culture is geared towards an environment that isn’t just safe to
Contributed by Carolyn McKanders and Robert Garmston Teachers meet continuously as an expected part of school duties. They meet in pairs,in faculty groups, departments and grade level meetings. Facilitation practices arenecessary in all these venues. Essential to meeting success and
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 has the opportunity to speak up. You may have heard of Lean (as in Lean Manufacturing),
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 “resilience engineering maintains that ‘things go
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 enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it via your social networks and/or forward it to other people
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have “Kintsugi”, inclusive meetings, story telling and Dissent Cards. Also, a very warm welcome to all our new subscribers in healthcare! Thanks so much toHelen Bevan for tweeting about psychological
Meetings, whether in-person or virtual (or the worst kind – a hybrid of the two, where some attendees are together in a room, and the others are remote), are a fact of life for many of us. In fact, many
