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Can a team be too psychologically safe?

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...

October 28, 2022
dunbars numbers
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Dunbar’s Number and Team Size

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...

October 21, 2022
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Westrum’s Organisational Culture

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 ...

October 14, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Team Charters

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...

October 7, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: The Andon Cord

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...

September 30, 2022
Dr Richard Cook
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Psychological Safety: Dr Richard Cook

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses Dr Richard Cook, clarity, and climbing, and is the first newsletter issue to be ...

September 23, 2022
psychological safety and diversity
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1-1 Meetings

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses 1-1 meetings, diversity, experiments, scrum masters and design principles 1-1 Me...

September 16, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Non-Violent Communication

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Non-Violent Communication, prospective employers, improv, and digital presenteei...

September 9, 2022
don't make avoidable mistakes
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Yogic Philosophy

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Yogic Philosophy, “avoidable” mistakes, and more Yogic Philosophy: A...

September 6, 2022
Mary Parker Follett
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Psychological Safety: Power and Mary Parker Follett

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses power, rituals, 360 feedback, and psychological safety in the military If you en...

August 26, 2022
Safety I vs Safety II
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Safety I & Safety II

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...

August 19, 2022
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Personal User Manuals

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 ...

August 12, 2022
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Psychological Safety: When Everything Seems To Be Against You…

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...

August 5, 2022
emergency checklist
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Psychological Safety: Drive, Dissent and Checklists

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 ...

July 29, 2022
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Psychological Safety 69: Coffee’s for Closers!

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses sales teams, game theory and the Agile Prime Directive If you enjoy reading this...

July 22, 2022
experiment canvas
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 68: Science!

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses science and experimentation, the Toyota Production System, and meetings If you enjoy rea...

July 15, 2022
kanban
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Psychological Safety: Making Work Visible

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses making work visible, and rockstar employees Making Work Visible  Dominica D...

July 8, 2022
wait time vs utilisation
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: The Mythical Man Month

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses “The Mythical Man Month”, agile software development, reframing risk...

July 1, 2022
does this need to be said
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Weaponisation of Psychological Safety

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 ...

June 24, 2022
the j curve
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Psychological Safety 64: Rules

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...

June 17, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 63: Open Secrets & Half-Baked Ideas

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses internal reporting, open secrets, whistleblowing and half-baked ideas If you enj...

June 10, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 62: 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 di...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 61: Startups and Inclusion

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses inclusion behaviours – not policies, along with Google, startups, onboard...

June 6, 2022
conflict
Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety 60: Conflict and Holding Environments

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Conflict, Holding Environments and High Performance Sport If you enjoy reading t...

June 6, 2022
ecotones and the edge effect
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Psychological Safety: Ecotones & The Edge Effect

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses Ecotones and the Edge Effect, as well as polarisation at work, relational c...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Servant Leadership

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are amazing This week discusses servant leadership, Swedish warships, being “neurodistinct”, and product dev...

June 6, 2022
psychological safety and trust
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Psychological Safety: Capacities of Leadership

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses leadership and trust, job role expansion, intersectionality, autonomy, healthcar...

June 6, 2022
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Newsletter  ·  Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: Command & Control

Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing You are awesome This week discusses command-control management, a lot of LEGO, autism, trans inclusion, and spe...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Vision and Strategy

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...

June 6, 2022
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Psychological Safety: Diversity and Performance

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...

March 25, 2022
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