Desmond Sherlock: But like all families Ray, we can get offensive behavior. What Social Just Culture do you have in place for your team members to use to address when someone inevitably treats them poorly?Or do they just have to suck it up and take one for the team? This is not about disagreeing, it... Continue Reading →
How to Resolve Disagreements Before they Become Disputes
I have a possible solution to resolving disagreements before they become disputes, that you can try without any expensive therapy SPLIT THE DISAGREEMENT into two parts.The content of the disagreement andThe behavior while delivering the content. Then DISAGREE with the content but OBJECT to the behavior of the delivery when one finds it offensive. Do... Continue Reading →
Disagree Vs Object
Disagree with Content - Object with How the Content is delivered in Real-time Here is the tip of the century (my view) or what I have called aSocial Just Culture When we are having a disagreement don't allow ourselves to get confused or sucked into a personal dispute. Only DISAGREE with WHAT (content) someone says.NEVER... Continue Reading →
Social Just Culture
We Believe Every Organisation Should have a Social Just Culture Such as Object123 Psychological Safety:The Psychological Safety movement has been getting some legs over the last 5 years since a few articles came out as a result of Google's research into what makes a successful team at Google. "Psychological safety is being able to show... Continue Reading →
Demeritocracy
There is a lot of talk about meritocracy now a days. Ray Dalio has famously built his Principles around this idea, I believe. But just as importantly I believe we need to include a demeritocracy. That is we get merits when we step up and succeed but we also get demerits when we step up... Continue Reading →
Elementary Tip on Conspiracy Theories from Sherlock
Why are so many so-called intelligent people so easily sucked into conspiracy theories?I am not exactly sure but I dare say that our biases have a lot to do with it. That is, we are more likely to believe what we want to believe or as the saying goes "having itchy ears"...ha! just waiting to... Continue Reading →
You Started it!
Why is it that when we are offended by someone’s behavior we end up being even more offensive in reply? Because they started it, simple. Of course this is a childish reply and as adults we would never be seen giving such an excuse for our offensive behavior but deep down I think that is... Continue Reading →
What is Object123?
This is power abuse although many offenders would disagree. Object123 is a simple Social Just Culture tool that we have developed to help stop power abuse in the workplace. We see this as a very important part of workplace health and safety, that is, a Psychological Safety using a Just Culture process. And as Just... Continue Reading →
One Simple Way to Remove Psychological Unsafety in the Workplace!
Type "psychological safety" into Google and you will see a bunch of articles on "so many ways to add or create psychological safety in the workplace". Since the New York Times article in 2016 about Google's research into "What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team" the buzz phrase has been psychological... Continue Reading →
Measuring Psychological Safety Vs Power Abuse
In summary, I think it is easier to measure and subtract power abuse than to measure and add psychological safety! My question to the person that posted this Parisa Naraei PhD: My reply: "My point is Parisa, that is what is needed with psychological safety, now, to define, design and measure it & get everyone... Continue Reading →
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