resilience

Diagram of measurement results for aspects of mental toughness - on a scale of 1-10

Individual Resilience

Individual Resilience, or “Grit” You won’t find many articles on psychsafety.com about individual resilience. Organisational resilience, certainly, but rarely the individual kind. We tend not to find it an especially useful, or often fair, way to frame things. This sometimes

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Efficiency versus Resilience

Efficiency vs Resilience By Tom Geraghty Standardisation is often used as a way to increase organisational efficiency and scalability. Through reducing variation, we can standardise our tools, training, processes and more, enabling us to optimise systems and better achieve our desired

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Psychological Safety Newsletter 153

Psychological Safety in the World Soft SkillsWhilst I’m not really keen on the term “soft skills” (because really, the soft stuff is the hard stuff), this is a good article by Rebecca Knight on improving your soft skills as a remote

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wait time vs utilisation

Queuing Theory, Slack and Utilisation.

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. 

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Tom Geraghty speaking

Speaking Up: Neurodiversity & Dyspraxia

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are amazing. This week discusses how speaking up sounds different for everyone, and psychological safety looks different to everyone. We also have learning from incidents, post-mortems, inclusion and diversity. If you

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