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How Leaders Can Make the Open Door Policy, Inclusive

Thinking Through • 750 implied HN points • 09 Jan 24
💼 Business Leadership Diversity Inclusion Teamwork Psychological safety
  1. Two things must be true for someone to take advantage of an open-door policy: self-confidence and psychological safety.
  2. Psychological safety in a team means feeling okay to take risks, express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes without fear of negative consequences.
  3. To build a psychologically safe environment, leaders can practice candidness, sharing mistakes, inclusive language, encouraging team input, and teaching team members to grow.

Readers respond to TDD x Psychological Safety survey

🔮 Crafting Tech Teams • 119 implied HN points • 14 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Engineering Testing Psychological safety Quality Assurance Software Development
  1. Experts find more ways to reward themselves while they work, not because they are more disciplined.
  2. Identity and team cohesion play a significant role in TDD adoption among tech teams.
  3. TDD adoption can lead to a blameless culture, improved design, and higher quality when implemented correctly.

Building more Psychological Safety on teams using the power of fish!

PeopleStorming • 39 implied HN points • 03 Oct 23
🎭️ Culture Teamwork Psychological safety Workshops
  1. The Stinky Fish exercise is a tool to help teams surface worries and fears in a safe space, promoting open dialogue and confronting concerns.
  2. The exercise, rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, can be used at the start of projects to create psychological safety in the team.
  3. Steps include providing context, allowing team members to jot down 'Stinky Fish', sharing in a circle, and emphasizing the value of open communication for team success.
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Psychological Safety

Fish Food for Thought • 16 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork Data-driven Decision Making Psychological safety Human Interaction Collaboration
  1. Psychological safety is crucial for team success, more than individual skills or composition.
  2. Google's Project Aristotle highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills in successful teams.
  3. Data-driven decision-making is essential, but human elements like trust and open communication are critical for team success.

GRANTED: What psychological safety is not and why we choose the wrong careers

Granted • 19 implied HN points • 02 Feb 19
💼 Business Career Choices Psychological safety Productivity
  1. When making career choices, prioritize who you want to become over what you want to achieve.
  2. Psychological safety in organizations is not about being relaxed, comfortable, or nice - it's about fostering a culture of respect, trust, and openness.
  3. To boost happiness, consider spending money to save time and making time-saving habits like canceling a meeting each week.

How to create and promote Psychological Safety at work

The Caring Techie Newsletter • 2 implied HN points • 22 Mar 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Psychological safety Leadership Communication Inclusivity
  1. Psychological safety is crucial for a healthy work environment, where individuals feel free to voice ideas, questions, and concerns without fear of punishment.
  2. Creating psychological safety is a shared responsibility between leaders and employees, with leaders modeling behaviors and reframing challenges as learning opportunities.
  3. To foster psychological safety, individuals can embrace curiosity, cancel blame, focus on collaborative problem-solving, and ensure everyone feels heard and valued.

Festival Of Failure

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 06 Oct 20
💼 Business Workplace culture Team Building Psychological safety
  1. Teams need psychological safety to thrive, where members can be open, vulnerable, and embrace failure as part of learning.
  2. The Festival of Failure is a ritual that helps teams create closeness and trust by sharing past mistakes, normalizing failure as a learning opportunity.
  3. Acknowledging and discussing failure openly in a team can boost resilience, courage, humility, and empathy among team members.

RDEL #14: How does psychological safety affect engineering teams?

Research-Driven Engineering Leadership • 0 implied HN points • 16 Oct 23
💼 Business Psychological safety Engineering Teams Team performance Innovation Research
  1. Psychological safety in teams allows for open communication without fear of reprimand, crucial for innovation and risk-taking.
  2. Team autonomy positively correlates with psychological safety, but this relationship differs based on project type and alignment.
  3. High psychological safety levels can reduce turnover and boost project performance in engineering teams, making it a key factor in team success.

Psychological Safety Provides Transparency and Productivity

🔮 Crafting Tech Teams • 0 implied HN points • 22 Jul 23
💼 Business Leadership Team Dynamics Work Environment Productivity Psychological safety
  1. Transparency and openness are important values, but they alone may not encourage team members to communicate openly during tough situations.
  2. Hesitation and playing it safe can lead to a psychologically unsafe environment, impacting team dynamics negatively.
  3. The overall environment is crucial, as it consistently influences team behavior more than individual willpower.