Can a team be too psychologically safe A question I get asked in many (maybe even most) workshops is “Can a team be too psychologically safe” Or sometimes framed, “What’s the impact o...
As much as Dunbar's limits on group sizes might seem to be common sense, and reflected in many real world examples, Dunbar's theories on group size boundaries have been deconstructed and shown to po...
Westrum’s Cultural Typologies Dr Ron Westrum wrote in the BMJ Quality & Safety Journal in 2004 about The Three Typologies of Organisational Culture He was looking at ...
Team Charters In a previous newsletter, we discussed “personal readmes” or “user manuals” (and if you found them useful, you probably want to check out this issue’s sponsor, C...
The Andon Cord, Toyota Kata, Kaizen and Jidoka A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time W E Deming The Andon Cord The Andon Cord is one of my favourite examples of psychological safety as a rea...
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Safety I & Safety II (Also known as Safety 1 and 2) For anyone familiar with the concepts of Resilience Engineering, you may have heard of the work of Erik Hollnagel, who states that “resili...
Personal User Manuals (aka “Personal README” or “Manual of Me”) What is a “Personal User Manual” One of my favourite practices for building psychological safety is ...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Inspiration (and mountain biking), more emissions scandals, speaking up, bullying at wor...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Drive, Dissent, and Checklists If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please ...
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Weaponisation of Psychological Safety This week was a bit rubbish to be honest We had a nasty experience when we were the victims of a rather sophisticated fraud attempt It could have been awful, but ...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses “rules”, autism, pushback, leaky buckets, cargo-culting, and more If...
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Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses Strategy, Vision, and Performance Plus psychological safety in healthcare servic...
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses diversity, psychological safety and performance, alongside DevOps and being a CTO, go...