Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work
...Lisa Gill:
I think most listeners will perhaps know you from your book “Teaming” (2012) and your research on psychological safety. It’s been a number of years since you’ve been working with different teams and organisations around this subject so I’m curious to know, what has yo...more
...oodness. Well, I would say that journey is such a good word for it. It’s a journey that started with an accidental finding. I didn’t set out to study psychological safety. I set out to study the learning organisation. I wanted to know what you could do to make organisations better at learning from their experiences. I ...more
...nterpersonal climate, as error climate, all sorts of terms, but ultimately drawing on older literature I decided it was really this phenomenon called psychological safety at work. And the more I thought about learning and learning environments, the more I thought that learning environments are those that are characteri...more
Margaret Heffernan on how to act our way out of the status quo trap
...Lisa Gill: Yes, that's very powerful. This makes me think about leaders in particular. What can we do to help create that kind of climate of psychological safety that is going to make people more likely to take that risk to speak up. Can you share any examples of practices or things that that you've come acros...more
...that you've come across in teams that really make a difference? Margaret Heffernan: First of all, I think one has to be quite careful with the phrase psychological safety. I know this has been much publicised by Amy Edmondson. And I think it's important. But I think it's also a little naive, in so far as - I can do my ...more
... large amount of personal debt - usually in the form of a mortgage - I promise you people won't feel safe. So there's a significant amount to do with psychological safety, that is entirely beyond the control of the organisation. I remember before the financial crisis, thinking that here in England we had people with g...more
Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College
...eral communication skills, active listening skills, critical thinking, you - these skills can become very useful. And then people on the team promote psychological safety - when it is safe to take interpersonal risks as a group - and these risks can, for instance, include speaking up when there is a problem within team...more
...are needed to work in a self managing way - around active listening, and upgrading communication skills in general in order to create this climate of psychological safety. Did you do training in those? Or was that something that you just started to have conversations about? How have people developed those skills? Paste...more
Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii
...agers about, or also founders or owners or CEOs of businesses that become self-managing is, as you said, the extra work you have to do to create that psychological safety for people to not just be like, "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am" or obey or feel like they can't speak up or to really feel like the invitation is there to...more
... could at the time. There's no regrets and that's something we can do: we can teach people equal talking time we can, we can create an environment of psychological safety, we can encourage people who have power over to tone it down, and we can encourage people who experienced power under to step up and to create safety...more
Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines
...ly hard on trust and to create trust and to take care of trust because it's like you know... Amy Edmondson, I saw you have a podcast with her. So the psychologically safe environment, I think, is one of the important things that you have to create and take care of, and it's really hard to create that kind of context - ...more
Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis
...es over the last few years, and the familiarity with some of these concepts, I think has shifted a lot in the collective consciousness or terms like 'psychological safety' from Amy Edmondson's work - these things are more and more in the common parlance I think. And in terms of the podcast and my thinking and how that...more
Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations
...re facing?" etc. etc. And so those questions prompted each individual to engage in that kind of open sharing that we know is helpful for facilitating psychological safety and other types of important team dynamics that are typically, I think, risky for an individual to do. And so the scripts really, I think, provide ad...more
Aaron Dignan on being complexity conscious and people positive
... different environment and a different aquarium - suddenly, they start to change. And a true nature starts to reveal itself again - if there's enough psychological safety, if there's enough space, if there's enough reinforcement - so I think that's the people positive side. That's sort of at the root of all the humanis...more