Productivity & psychological safety are connected. Currently, as we seek to drive up performance, a lot of people find they're in the anxiety zone. We'll be at our most productive in the learning zone; where it's safe to try new things & give our views. By @AmyCEdmondson@tnvora
A common misperception about #psychologicalsafety is that it means lowering standards, giving up on #accountability, or "everyone being wrapped in cotton wool."
I love a good 2 x 2 matrix... so here's mine, brought to life by @tnvora, #sketchnote artist supreme.
I _really_ appreciate this drawing by @deniseyu21.
First saw it in @tom_geraghty's #psychologicalsafety newsletter and thought it needed to be spread around!
I am transfixed by the example of President #Zelensky. I have watched every one of his addresses. He is plainspoken, quietly forceful, and unstinting with the truth.
I have been studying #leadership and #fearlessness my whole life. I’ve never quite seen the likes of this.
How you respond to #mistakes drives everything that happens afterwards, and we *just might* not be doing it as well as we imagine.
Good insights here from @MalekaDonaldson viz the elementary school setting. In many ways, we are all tall kindergartners. gse.harvard.edu/news/21/11/h…
All VERY good points. Some excellent words from @AmyCEdmondson on this point. What we think of as as an ideal employee may be a very different thing to a trainee who is learning well- and a trainee contributing to the learning of the team.
Ukrainian footballer Roman Yaremchuk received a standing ovation when entering the field to play for Benfica against Vitoria in show of support for Ukraine.
Yaremchuk also got to wear the captain's armband.
P.S. Congrats on the victory, @SLBenfica
Video: slbenfica/Instagram
"Make this your own."
A math teacher I knew would say this as she was handing out thick packets on conic sections. Decades later, it plays in my head.
Here's Google's 1-pager "Manager Actions for #PsychologicalSafety."
Make it your own... and try to make it fun too
@CelesteHeadlee asks a good question here:
"If Google did this research in 2009 & created a guide for healthy leadership that’s not only reasonable but also unsurprising, why is the company still struggling with toxic leadership in 2022?"
heres-a-thought.ghost.io/her…@WorkFearlessly
THANKS for understanding this as a misunderstanding! #Psychologicalsafety is often confused with “safe space,” when it’s actually nearly the opposite.
“Safe conflict” says it well: an atmosphere of healthy give-and-take, rather than tiptoeing around.
Hypothesis: All the talk of 'psychological safety' is back-firing. Rather than encourage safe conflict, it is misunderstood to mean 'a space in which people are safe from being offended'.