Psychological Safety
Channel: Danelle Jones | Tribe Leadership Retreats
Date: 2022-04-13

“...we make up stories about other people’s actions in which we are always the hero or the victim but never the villain.”  - Barry Oshry

Let’s
Talk
Psychological Safety!

Wait what’s that?  This blog episode is all about it :)

The more we can nurture an environment in which we and our teams can allow our nervous systems to settle, to relax, the greater our capacity for creativity and innovation.

The more I dive into this work the more I see how our corporate lives are one hour after another of simply escalating our stress response, without time to come down, without time to close off one loop before opening another - and that has very real implications on our bodies and our mental fortitude.

When we nurture environments that support us to feel safe - safe to share ideas, safe to challenge, safe to get it wrong, safe to call out when we see something wrong - then our tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity necessarily increases.  And with that we have more capacity to navigate the shifting sands.

This could be as simple as a quick stocktake of everyone’s preferred communication style (using your favourite tool, mine is David Kantor’s Structural Dynamics) and some awareness building so people know how to get on the same page.

It could mean actually enforcing that 15 minutes between meetings so that people can genuinely close out their last meeting before running straight into the next.

We don’t have to go as far as day-beds in the breakout room (although I fully support mid-afternoon siestas).  But we can certainly reflect on what we are doing, or not doing, that actively contributes to the challenges around me (Thanks Keiran @PeopleTalking).

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The sun is shining outside and there is a door open behind me where you can see the lawn outside.  

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