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, […]...
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 […]...
Timothy R Clark 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: This is […]...
Learning From Work In the spirit of looking back and learning, I thought it’d be nice to dive into a few different practices of learning from the work we do In this issue, we’re going to have a look at […]...
Most of us will be used to the idea of icebreakers that are used in meetings or group sessions where not all the participants know each other, and are a good way to increase the psychological safety of a team […]...
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The Psychological Safety Quadrant Exercise This is a really powerful (and fun!) exercise to qualitatively measure psychological safety, team performance, and work collaboratively to increase both, via a workshop that can be carried out remotely or in-person This is really […]...
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I get asked a lot if I can help out with presentation content for internal training, talks or similar, so here is a slide deck for a psychological safety presentation that I’ve delivered a number of times and you’re welcome […]...
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 […]...
I have spent quite some some time working to contribute to the Wikipedia page on psychological safety, particularly in respect to the section on History of the subject Dr Amy Edmondson was kind enough to help structure and edit it […]...
Inclusion is at the core of psychological safety, and must be defined as a central team value Any individual behaviours or beliefs that don't align with the principle of inclusion must be addressed...
Trust is not the same as psychological safety When building psychological safety in a team, or in any group context, it’s necessary to foster and maintain trust Trust and psychological safety are sometimes confused with each other, and whilst they […]...
Creating psychological safety at work, in your team or in your organisation may seem like a very daunting task, and it can be hard to know where to start Here are ten things you can do right now that will […]...
Books on Psychological Safety, and creating an environment where we can learn from mistakes and successes The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson The essential book on Psychological Safety Dr Edmondson covers the research and theory, examples of failure where a […]...
The switch to remote and virtual teams In early 2020, due to the Covid 19 outbreak, many organisations around the world went through a sudden digital transformation and many teams became remote With this near-instant operational pivot to virtual and […]...
Psychological safety is created through shared values and positive behaviours, where a culture of trusting, helping, and elevating means that all members of the team can work productively and be their true selves, without fear There are great benefits to […]...
Do you want to improve psychological safety and performance in your teams Are you facing significant challenges that require transformation to overcome You can download the Psychological Safety Action Pack and put yourself in charge of driving the transformation, but […]...
There’s not a great deal of research or writing available about psychological safety in the military, despite one of the best leadership books available – “Turn the Ship Around” by David Marquet, being about how he used empowering leadership and […]...
It’s a long and worthwhile journey to build high levels of psychological safety in your organisation, and much of the hard work involves excellent leadership, clarity of direction, effective support, vulnerability, curiosity and much more However there are some simple […]...