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Psychological Safety #30: The Toxic Triangle

I’m interested in your thoughts on this: how does employee surveillance impact psychological safety? My instinct tells me that any degree of overt or covert surveillance is likely to be harmful, both to psychological safety and to fundamental employee wellbeing. Additionally it’s a

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Psychological Safety: It’s OK to…

This week we have Open Leadership, “What’s ok”, Whistleblowing, Equality, Boeing, safety science, Invisible Knapsacks, Wardley Mapping, and more.Note: There won’t be a newsletter next week as I’m taking a short break, so there’s extra content in this to keep you

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Psychological Safety #25: Toxic Workplaces

This week we have company culture at Netflix and Twitter, Toxic Workplaces, Game Theory and The Improvement Method Olympics! Heads up: an updated version of the Action Pack is coming out soon, and the minimum price will be increasing to better reflect the amount

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Everything Is An Experiment

How often do you find yourself anxious and afraid to start something in case you fail, in case you’re not doing it “right”, or in case it doesn’t have the result you expect? Psychological safety makes it safe to fail,

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Psychological Safety #22: Education and Teaching

Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have a bumper section on education and teaching, alongside near-misses, software development, complex systems and privilege walks.  Check out the Psychological Safety Practice Playbook for Education This is excellent! Heuristics

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Psychological Safety: Inclusive Meeting Practice

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

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The Psychological Safety Framework

Psychological safety is an emergent phenomenon: a property and state of a group that is felt (differently) by members of the group. For this reason, it’s a difficult (but worthwhile) concept to study, and many efforts have been made to

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Psychological Safety #16: Social Contracts

Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week, “Me Days”, social contracts, next-gen organisations and more.In the Workplace: This deserves the headline this week: “Me Days” at Aula. Ozzie Clarke-Binns, People Lead at Aula describes so well in this LinkedIn

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Psychological Safety #12: Deming

Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have mentorship, restorative justice, Deming, “visual attention”, voice and silence, a new book release, and more! This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Red Hat Open Innovation Labs.  A globally dispersed

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