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
Psychological Safety #21: Physical health, mental health and patient safety.
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have a bumper issue with the Andon Cord, Gibbs Reflective Cycle, why you should reduce collaboration, the power of silence and more. Note: I’m trying to concentrate on only sharing
Psychological Safety #20: Aviation and Debriefing
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have some incredible content from the world of air traffic operations, debriefing, a great Padlet board, pre-mortems and more! I also have a small favour to ask! We’re all part
The Power of Silence in Creating Psychological Safety
Silence in a meeting can be a warning sign of very low psychological safety, but that’s not always, or even usually, the case. We all have our own, very different, preferences for how we speak up, contribute and communicate, especially
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
Psychological Safety #18: NHS Horizons and Bad Idea Brainstorms
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! And thanks for being patient during my little break last week. This week we have an excellent guide by NHS Horizons, libraries and neutrality, bad idea brainstorms, feedback, and more. Of course, the REALLY big
Psychological Safety #17: Sociotechnical Architecture and Design Practices
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have “positive deviance”, sociotechnical architecture, “unbelonging”, design practices and the Maginot Line Problem, plus even more!More exciting news! Psych Safety Merchandise is on its way!! We have stickers in production, and some other
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
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety fails in practice “The Four Stages of Psychological Safety is a model that was popular for a few years, and has since fallen out of favour. Timothy R Clark in his book “The Four
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
Psychological Safety: Boeing & the 737 MAX, Incidents and Learning from Failure
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we’ve changed the structure a bit – it’s now split into three sections: “In the workplace“, “Theory, Research and Opinion“, and “Things to Do and Try“. Let me know what you
Psychological Safety #14: Schwartz Rounds and Executive Privilege
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we’re talking about Schwartz Rounds, executive privilege, incident write-ups, ethics in AI and more. Psychsafety.co.uk is open for contributions! Would you like to have an article or blog post published on psychsafety.com? If you
Psychological Safety #13: Diversity & Inclusion, Tolerance & Politics.
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we focus on diversity and inclusion, tolerance and politics. This week’s newsletter doesn’t have a sponsor – if you’re interested in sponsorship for 1-3 issues, get in touch! Join our
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
Psychological Safety #11: DevOps, Agile and Lean
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have how to deal with toxic leadership, artwork by Sherrill Knezel, Lean, DevOps, and a poem about equality. This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. A globally
Psychological Safety #10: Basecamp and Transforming Toxic Work Cultures
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have some interesting controversies in leadership approaches at Basecamp and Away, how to measure and build psychological safety in short lived teams, and how to use humour to
Psychological Safety #9: Hybrid Workplaces and Returning to the Office
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have an awesome piece about psychological safety in the US Army, a controversial take on remote working, icebreakers and “positive feedback loops of excitement”. This week’s newsletter is sponsored
Psychological Safety #8: Resilience Engineering and Building Communities
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have loads on psychological safety in healthcare and medicine, diversity and inclusion, technology, and exciting news about the psych safety community!We now have a Psychological Safety Community on Slack! Read
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Psychological Safety #7: Virtual Teams
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have a load of great pieces on education, health and medicine, the work environment and more. Issue #7 is brought to you by Attuned. Attuned fills the holes in
Psychological Safety Quadrant
The Psychological Safety Quadrant Exercise This is a really powerful (and fun!) exercise that helps participants learn and understand psychological safety, as well as an opportunity to qualitatively measure psychological safety, and can be carried out remotely or in-person. We’ve
Psychological Safety #6: Team Topologies & Remote Practices
Introduction Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! I find it really encouraging and exciting that so many people around the world and in all types and sizes of organisations are working towards creating great, psychologically safe cultures. You
Psychological Safety #5: Risk Registers and Critical Issues
IntroductionIn this issue, we have one of the best paper titles I’ve read in a while, some fantastic pieces about psychological safety in the workplace, and articles, videos and podcasts on health and medicine, sport, and education. Look out below for
Psychological Safety: Human Debt
IntroductionIn this issue, we have a great piece about diversity and inclusion, an integrative graphic, an super article from Duena Blomstrom about the concept of “Human Debt”, and, since this newsletter now has more subscribers than I ever imagined possible (thanks
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