The Golden Rule Error The golden rule is a moral principle commonly understood as "treat others as you would like to be treated." This rule is often attributed to Jesus a couple of thousand years ago and has been a central tenet of many religions and ethical systems throughout history. The golden rule encourages individuals... Continue Reading →
Workplace Protection for Speaking Up
Lately, this idea encouraging workplace team members to speak up and call out mistakes, misbehavior, and misleading leadership has been getting a lot of airwaves. Still, no one seems to be discussing how we can supply sufficient protection during the process.A key to my understanding of this issue is from the quote: “Psychological safety is... Continue Reading →
Blind Misleading the Blind
It's time to get serious about this. I believe it's time we start talking about basic protections that allow workplace team members to speak up rather than listening to the ubiquitous cliches and platitudes that psychologists use to describe the need for psychological safety.
Avoiding Major Conflict with SpatzAI: The Code of Conduct for Minor Misbehavior
Our suggestion for using an app and peer review network to facilitate conflict resolution and data analysis is intriguing and could potentially have wide-reaching implications. Our proposal has thought-provoking ideas for how we can navigate disagreements in a more productive and objective way.
Psychological Safety and Micro-conflicts (Spats) in Teams
In a research paper in 2017 "The dynamics of micro-conflicts and uncertainty in successful and unsuccessful design teams" (link to PDF), the authors seem to have made a direct correlation between successful design teams and how they tackled their micro-conflicts. The authors found that a team's psychological safety was directly related to how teams (in... Continue Reading →
The Potential Science Behind SpatzAI
I guess the question is, is there a standard behavior everyone can agree on and utilize? I think so and believe I have found it and have been proving it for some 38 years, and it still seems to work. It's called "I could be wrong," or the technical term is Rethink Perfect. I wrote... Continue Reading →
Code of Conduct Vs Code for Misconduct
Slack XXX Group's Code of Conduct We hold all stories or personal material in confidentiality We are careful about interrupting each other.When we disagree, we focus on the idea, not the person.When we have a discussion, we make spaces to pause for reflection.We don’t need to be articulate to express ourselves.We acknowledge that there is... Continue Reading →
Making Mistakes and Misbehaviors
I find this both ironic and hypocritical that the psychological safety movement and organizational psychologists can criticize leaders or managers for being know-it-alls, psychopaths or narcissists. And at the same time, talk about creating a safe environment for teams
Does Dogma Erodes Trust?
Listen to any two people in a heated dispute and one thing I believe you are bound to notice, and that is their surety that they are right and the other is wrong. No doubts! You can quickly tell by the absolute and dogmatic language they are using. No prefacing their statements with "I think.."... Continue Reading →
Restoring Eroded Trust
Restoring Eroded Trust Search on Google for building trust and psychological safety, and you will see oodles of articles on the subject but not so many on restoring lost trust. The issue for me is not so much on building trust in a team but how we restore it when it is lost or eroded. Generally,... Continue Reading →
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