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selection pressure
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Selection Pressure and Psychological Safety

Selection Pressure and Psychological Safety Why has it taken so long for some industries to recognise the importance of psychological safety, whilst others have been doing it for decades One possible ...

December 1, 2023
Photo by Michael Walter on Unsplash
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
The Adaptive Cycle and Self-Organised Criticality

The Adaptive Cycle  This is a great paper for the ecological and complexity geeks, like me The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor Thanks to Christina Bowen for sharing  The adaptive c...

November 24, 2023
The challenger explosion
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Normalisation of Deviance

The Normalisation of Deviance In previous articles we’ve differentiated error into three types: slips and lapses, mistakes, and violations This time, we’re exploring a certain type of viol...

November 24, 2023
social gradient of health
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Good Management Saves Lives

The Whitehall Studies and The Social Gradient of Health The relationship between seniority/status and psychological safety is strong In general, we know that people holding more senior and higher stat...

November 17, 2023
The first org chart - mccallum
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
The First Organisational Chart

The First Org Chart In 1855, Brigadier General Daniel McCallum, later to become a Civil War officer renowned for “strict precision and stern discipline” as well as for his innovative engineeri...

November 10, 2023
wait time vs utilisation
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Queuing Theory, Slack and Resilience.

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 floo...

November 2, 2023
audre lorde questionnaire to oneself
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
15/5 Reports

15/5 Reports To manage teams in a way that fosters psychological safety requires clear communication and feedback channels Team members should have well-defined platforms to share achievements, voice ...

October 27, 2023
Tom Geraghty (age 5)
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety  ·  Theory and Practice
Stuttering and Stammering

Stutters and Stammers I’ve written previously about my experience growing up with dyspraxia, which I was diagnosed with at an early age My dyspraxia made it difficult for me to pronounce an...

October 19, 2023
Deming out of the crisis
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Deming’s 14 Points of Management

Deming’s 14 Points of Management I’m a Deming fan, and sad that I never got to meet him or attend any of his lectures W E Deming is possibly most well known for his “PDCA” (Plan-Do-Check-A...

October 13, 2023
cognitive bias
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Bad Management

Bad Management It’s important that we learn from our own mistakes and failures, and self-reflect in order to improve However, there’s also a lot we can learn from things others g...

October 6, 2023
Tom Geraghty Conference
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety #129: Crew Resource Management, Diversity of Thought, PSIRF and more.

Crew Resource Management In preparing for my conference talk this week, I was reading up further on the 1977 Tenerife disaster and the history of Crew Resource Management (CRM), and came across t...

September 29, 2023
suryalila and the om dome
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
Verbally Speaking Up at Work

Verbally Speaking Up at Work Speaking with a client this week, we surfaced an interesting organisational antipattern to psychological safety Sometimes, within an organisation, there exists a...

September 22, 2023
James Reason's Swiss cheese Model
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Theory and Practice
The Swiss Cheese Model

Reason's theory holds that most accidents can be traced to one or more of four levels of failure: Organisational influences, Unsafe supervision, Preconditions for unsafe acts, and The unsafe acts ...

September 14, 2023
employment protections and psychological safety
In The Workplace  ·  Measure  ·  Newsletter  ·  Theory and Practice
Employment Protections and Psychological Safety

Employment Protections and Psychological Safety You may recall back in issue 121, we released a small survey on employment rights, protections and policies It was a preliminary, pilot study intended t...

September 8, 2023
psychological safety - goodharts law
Newsletter
Choosing a psychometric tool

Measuring psychological safety Here are some tips on choosing the right tool for the job As awareness of the importance of psychological safety in the workplace increases, there is a corresponding inc...

September 1, 2023
Normal accident theory
In Technology  ·  In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Normal Accidents

Normal Accidents Charles Perrow is regarded as a pivotal figure in the theory of why and how things fail He served as a sociology professor at Yale and Stanford and was primarily focused on the influe...

August 24, 2023
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In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety in Teaching, plus Cognitive Load and Ed Sheeran

Psychological Safety in Teaching The way incidents are managed in a system extends far beyond the individuals directly involved, impacting everyone within that system This is illustrated in this recen...

August 17, 2023
Statistical Process Control chart
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Statistical Process Control: Understanding Variation

Statistical Process Control and Understanding Variation In a chat with a great client this week, we got talking about different approaches to measurement and metrics I introduced the concept of Statis...

August 17, 2023
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety is not the goal

Psychological Safety is not the goal Now, this might seem an odd thing to say for someone who makes a living by helping people understand and foster psychological safety, but it’s true...

August 11, 2023
Burnout, by Deisa Tremarias
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
Burnout and Psychological Safety

Burnout and psychological safety There’s a strong link between psychological safety and burnout in employees in the workplace I mean, there’s a strong link between psychological safety and...

August 3, 2023
mona chalabi union illustration
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Employment Rights

Employment Rights and Psychological Safety Thanks so much to newsletter reader Andrea Notch for pointing me at Mona Chalabi’s illustrations of statistical ideas and topics – while I was ha...

August 3, 2023
john snow's cholera map
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation In the psychsafetycom measurement workshop we cover a lot: research ethics, quantitative/qualitative approaches, longitudinal vs cross-sectional studies, formulating resea...

July 29, 2023
local rationality principle
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
The Local Rationality Principle

Local Rationality “People do reasonable things given their goals, knowledge, understanding of the situation and focus of attention at a particular moment” A fundamental premise of psycholo...

July 20, 2023
Sagrada Familia
Newsletter
Non-attachment to results

Psychological safety and Buddhist Philosophy We’re in Barcelona this week for workshops and meetings, and we decided to visit La Sagrada Familia again It’s an incredible building, and although con...

July 14, 2023
complexity by Virpi Oinonen
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
Complexity

A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water “What are [...

July 7, 2023
Doctor holding a stethoscope in the shape of a heart
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter
PSIRF: The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

Understanding and Implementing the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) This week we’re having a look at the new NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) Whilst this is c...

June 30, 2023
Chernobyl Sarcophagus
In The Workplace  ·  Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Chernobyl: Safety Cultures and Secrecy

Executive Summary: Causes of Disaster at Chernobyl: The Absence of Psychological Safety (See below for the complete article) In 1986, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in the Ukrainian SSR (the ter...

June 23, 2023
Newsletter
Psychological Safety, Everest and Mountaineering

Everest, and psychological safety in the mountains Thanks so much to a client of mine, the excellent Paul Verrico at Eversheds Sutherland, I was lucky enough to attend the 70th anniversary of the...

June 16, 2023
sociotechnical theory
Newsletter
Sociotechnical Theory

If we think about how we can apply sociotechnical theory in practice, we realise that organisational change or technological change will fail if we focus on one component (social or technical) in isol...

June 9, 2023
psychological safety playbooks
Newsletter
Psychological Safety: High-Performing Teams

Newsletter 112 High Performing Teams & Psychological Safety at Work: I love this Twitter thread from James Heathers, who dives head-first into some of the terrible takes on remote work that h...

June 1, 2023
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