Author: Tom Geraghty

Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have loads of amazing content and it might be my favourite issue yet! There are new posters for you to download, awesome podcasts, a great article on “feminine leadership”, “JOMO” and a cartoon about accepting compliments.  Exciting news! The Psychological Safety Poster Pack has been completely redesigned and there’s…
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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, but what if we made it impossible to fail in the first place? We’ve been…
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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. In the Workplace: This is excellent! Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list. And the most important factor, at number 1? Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of…
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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 open-access academic papers, so you should be able to access all the papers linked in…
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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 of building a super movement here and raising great awareness of psychological safety, so if…
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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 in group settings. Some of us prefer to dive straight in to debate, whether we’re…
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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 safety and this newsletter; as a result our psychological safety movement is gaining even more momentum!…
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After doing the psychological safety team performance exercise, you may want to workshop with your team to establish how you’re going to build psychological safety in the team. Whilst there are some standard and ubiquitous approaches to building psychological safety, such as icebreakers, retrospectives, and video call practices, this is an opportunity for your team…
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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 news this week is that you can now show your love of psychological safety with these…
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Providing constructive feedback is one of the most powerful things you can do to help others achieve their goals, be happier in their work, create psychological safety and help your teams and organisations perform at their best. Badly delivered feedback is one of the quickest ways to destroy psychological safety and break down trust in…
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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 exciting projects. You’ll soon be able to share your love for psychological safety on your…
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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 codify and structure psychological safety in both conceptual and practical frameworks. There are multiple frameworks…
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Timothy R Clarke in his book “The Four Stages Of Psychological Safety” describes a conceptual model of four “stages” of psychological safety that teams can move through, progressing from stage 1 to stage 4. These four stages are: Inclusion Safety – members feel safe to belong to the team. They are comfortable being present, do…
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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 post why we can’t simply leave the outside world “at the door” when we come to work.  Here’s…
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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 think! Psychsafety.co.uk is open for contributions! Would you like to have an article or blog post published…
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