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 →
Snowflake!
All the reasons you need to keep your big trap shut! I think that there is too much emphasis on us NOT being offended and NOT speaking up when we are offended. And what we see are terrible arguments, domestic disputes, malicious gossiping etc as the result. That is, very poorly delivered objections, that we... Continue Reading →
The Agree-cultural Revolution
Our written history began around 10,000BC with the Agricultural Revolution. After this, came the Industrial Revolution and we are now in the Digital Revolution or Information Age. My prediction is that the next revolution that builds upon the Information Age will be the Agree-cultural Revolution. What is the Agree-cultural Revolution? I believe it is where... Continue Reading →
Psychological Safety Singular Framework
It seems to me there are two approaches to creating a Psychological Safety Framework: Describe all the behaviors that team members should and shouldn’t do and what the team leaders should and shouldn’t do to enable these identified behaviors. Or Propose a singular framework for objecting to misbehavior that team members and team leaders could... Continue Reading →
THE PRECAUTION!
The word "precaution" suggests that it's what comes before we need to caution or to even prevent cautioning. In fact, to me precaution does not seem to make sense until we make the statement "to take the precaution". Our lives are full of these precautions, so many in fact that I believe we have not... Continue Reading →
Upset the Applecart….not ourselves!
Upset the Applecart....not ourselves The idiom "Don't upset the applecart", applies, in this case to the the 'system' of conversation. What 'system', you may ask. The playwright Bertolt Brecht said “When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.” I think... Continue Reading →
The Third Phase of Objection
What causes conflict? I believe what happens is that most people allow the first, second and even the third offense to take place and only then react or object but by then the reaction can and usually is so disproportionate to the offence. We have all been there and suffered this type of wrath, for... Continue Reading →
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