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Causes of Disaster at Chernobyl: The Absence of Psychological Safety (See below for the complete article) In 1986, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in the Ukrainian SSR (the territory of modern Ukraine) suffered a catastrophic failure that directly killed […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety in Education Online Workshops 2025 Dates TBC – contact us to be added to the waitlist Psychological Safety in Education 2 x 2 hour Online Workshops Creating Psychological Safety for Students and Building Psychological Safety for Educators 2025 Dates to […]| Psych Safety
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are amazing. This week discusses Yogic Philosophy, “avoidable” mistakes, and more. Yogic Philosophy: Ahimsa and Satya You’ve probably realised by now that I love drawing together ideas from diverse fields and […]| Psych 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 with the help of various […]| Psych Safety
Team performance isn't the only reason that we foster psychological safety. We also do it because we want people to feel fulfilled in their jobs, we don’t want people to leave a team because they don’t feel included, we want people to experience less unnecessary stress and have greater mental wellbeing, we want to foster greater diversity and inclusion. Ultimately, we foster psychological safety because it's fundamentally the right thing to do.| Psych Safety
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 enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it via your social networks and/or forward it to other […]| Psych Safety
Meetings, whether in-person or virtual (or the worst kind – a hybrid of the two, where some attendees are together in a room, and the others are remote), are a fact of life for many of us. In fact, many […]| Psych Safety
Inclusion is at the core of psychological safety, and must be defined as a central team value. Any individual behaviours or beliefs that don't align with the principle of inclusion must be addressed.| Psych Safety
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are amazing. This week discusses some things to think about before measuring psychological safety. Measuring Psychological Safety I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about measuring psychological safety, and thought it’d be good to […]| Psych Safety
Data Visualisation In the psychsafety.com measurement workshop we cover a lot: research ethics, quantitative/qualitative approaches, longitudinal vs cross-sectional studies, formulating research questions, survey design, and communicating our findings. As part of that, we look at data visualisation, including this classic example: The Broad Street […]| Psych Safety
Measuring psychological safety? Here are some tips on choosing the right tool for the job. As awareness of the importance of psychological safety in the workplace increases, there is a corresponding increase in the number of psychometric tools, applications and […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety, Aviation Disasters and Crew Resource Management This week I’ve been reading “Confronting Mistakes” by Jan Hagen. This is a fantastic book, focusing on the human factors behind a multitude of aviation incidents. Jan highlights how miscommunication and failures to speak up […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety Online Training & Workshops Open Enrolment Online Workshops Our online, open-enrolment psychological safety workshops cover everything from what psychological safety is to how to measure and build it in organisations. They offer a range of options to suit […]| Psych Safety
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The Normalisation of Deviance In previous articles we’ve differentiated error into three types: slips and lapses, mistakes, and violations. This time, we’re exploring a certain type of violation called the “normalisation of deviance”, a term coined by Diane Vaughan. We […]| Psych Safety
Experiments, bets and probes One of our mottos at PsychSafety is “everything is an experiment”. The outcome of work shouldn’t just be getting the thing done, it should be learning how to do it better next time. Experiments don’t mean […]| Psych Safety
The Johari Window By Jade Garratt, Director of Education Like many, I was first introduced to the Johari Window in leadership development training. It was presented as a tool to understand yourself, and it was used to demonstrate how feedback […]| Psych Safety
1- Artefacts. These describe any overt, visible, describable aspects of the organisation. Think things like branding and logos, office design, dress code, policies and tools. Things that you can see. 2- Espoused values. This is how people would describe the organisation, in current or aspirational terms. These include missions, goals, value statements, and social contracts. 3- Underlying assumptions. These are unconscious, unspoken, hard to articulate elements of the organisation, particu...| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety Behaviours: The Big List Psychological safety is a belief that the group is safe for interpersonal risk taking (Edmondson, 1999). There are many ways we can help to foster these environments, but it’s important to remember that we […]| Psych Safety
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are amazing. This week discusses servant leadership, Swedish warships, being “neurodistinct”, and product development. If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it via your social networks and/or forward it to other people […]| Psych Safety
Welcome to the psychological safety newsletter and thanks for subscribing. You are awesome. This week discusses leadership and trust, job role expansion, intersectionality, autonomy, healthcare, education, sport, trust and dysfunctions If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please share it via your social networks and/or […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety, Hierarchies and power This is fantastic, from Richard Bartlett; Hierarchies are not the problem. Richard writes eloquently here to show that hierarchies are not “bad”. Rather, unhelpful or harmful power dynamics are bad. “Focusing on “hierarchy” doesn’t just miss […]| Psych Safety
How to Measure Psychological Safety We know psychological safety is essential for high performance teams: it enables sharing of ideas, admitting and learning from mistakes, highlighting risks, and challenging (and improving) the way we do things. Psychological safety is the […]| Psych Safety
Or Leadership vs Management? Leadership and management are not the same thing. But they’re not mutually exclusive either. In order to be a truly effective leader, we must also possess strong competency and capability in our respective domains. We don’t […]| Psych Safety
How psychological safety emerges and changes over time in the workplace. Given that psychological safety itself is a relatively young field, there’s not a huge amount of published research that addresses the longitudinal dynamics of psychological safety in the workplace: […]| Psych Safety
The Interrelationship between Psychological Safety And Wellbeing When we talk about psychological safety in our workshops and sessions, the concept of wellbeing almost always comes up. This makes sense, since psychological safety is essentially about how people feel at work. […]| Psych Safety
The Pac-Man rule One of the main reasons to go to a conference, event or meetup is to meet people and have interesting conversations. I’ve found myself at day-long conferences where I’ve not attended a single talk, and instead found […]| Psych Safety
Ten Ways to Foster Psychological Safety in the Workplace We’ve been reflecting on our last few years of experience delivering psychological safety workshops, training and consultancy in organisations around the world. Based on all those wonderful experiences, working with industries […]| Psych Safety
We love to measure stuff, don’t we? Maybe it’s human nature, but we seem to have a strong desire to make the intangible tangible, and we tend (or at least many of us do) to believe in the robustness of […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety and Safeguarding Article by Jade Garratt Imagine suspecting, or even knowing, that something is terribly wrong, but feeling unable to speak up about your concerns. This feeling can be all too real in environments where safeguarding is essential, […]| Psych Safety
The Workplace Psychological Safety Act (WPSA) is proposed USA legislation aimed at addressing and mitigating psychological abuse, including bullying and mobbing, in the workplace. This act seeks to provide comprehensive protection for all employees, regardless of their membership in a […]| Psych Safety
The online Psychological Safety Community has been live since early 2021, and currently has around 800 members. It’s completely free to join, and we have some great conversations there. A lot of newsletter topics and sharing items come from discussions […]| Psych Safety
Psychological Safety and DevOps Practices This is a special edition article by Balázs Szakmáry Developing software of any real complexity is a task that goes well beyond one person and one computer. The people, the machines, and the processes involved […]| Psych Safety
Leadership and Empathy One of the most powerful capabilities that leaders and managers can possess is empathy. Arguably, the same could be said for anyone – we can best understand and help others when we’re able to see the world […]| Psych Safety
In the real world, psychological safety is political. There are some who say that psychological safety isn’t political. We think it is. What does “political” mean? At its broadest level, politics determine the ways people in groups make decisions. This […]| Psych Safety
I can say whatever I want! When I met up with Amy Edmondson recently in Boston (yes, this is a humblebrag and I’m owning it!) we discussed one of the prevalent misconceptions around psychological safety: that it means we can say […]| Psych Safety
