Getting A Team Behind A Decision!
Stages Of Group Development
Where Communication Gaps happen
How To Overcome Group Divisiveness
Using Design Thinking Techniques To Build Psychological Safety
Using the most important part of design thinking to help develop your team's psychological safety.
One of the hardest parts about creating psychological safety is not about getting it started. It's the continued efforts needed to make it a part of the team's culture. It’s so easy to go back to old ways of being. Especially when a team gets stressed or overwhelmed.
How To Be Creative With Design Thinking To Build Psychological Safety
Design Thinking For Psychological Safety
Interested in using the tools of design thinking to create psychological safety?
Building psychological safety can be a messy process. There are so many different personalities to take into consideration. How do you make sure to keep focused and stay on the right path? It can be difficult to know exactly what to do.
Psychological Safety 101
Our Lean Strategy Workshop From Start To Finish
The Easiest Ways To Keep A Strategy Workshop Feeling Safe
You want everyone to participate in your strategy workshop.
You’ve gotten everyone together for a strategy workshop, but no one seems to be engaged or willing to share their thoughts and opinions. It’s like pulling teeth. You work really hard to get people to openly participate, but it seems like it’s of little use. People seem to feel unsafe speaking up. You are feeling confused, frustrated and emotionally drained from all this work.
The Most Important Part Of A Strategy Workshop
You want to make sure the strategy ACTUALLY gets executed.
You’ve gone through all the work of creating and delivering a strategy workshop. But now there are still things that are unknown. Who is doing what? What tasks are involved? When will these be done by? And so on. When a strategy doesn’t get executed you feel deflated. Like all of the work was for nothing.
How To Run A Lean Strategy Workshop
Lead your team through a successful strategy workshop.
Running strategy workshops is a bumpy process. There is a lot to consider and working with groups of people can be messy. People want different things. Some people talk a lot while others stay quiet. It's very easy to go down unproductive rabbit holes.
Psychological Safety Exercises - Your Best Deep Dive
Psychological Safety Exercises can have a profound effect on the people you're working with. Not too long ago I was working with a very large international tech company.
These types of experiences happen quite often during my psychological safety exercises. Someone feels safe enough to have those kinds of conversations with me. These exercises can help you get to the heart of the team issues, where people don't feel comfortable to open up and share.
How To Best Prepare For A Strategy Workshop (Using psychological safety as the main example)
How to feel prepared for a strategy workshop/meeting.
Developing a strategy with your team can feel overwhelming. It's difficult to know where to start and there are a lot of things to consider. People want different things out of the strategy session. Different personalities bump up against each other. It’s difficult to articulate the purpose of the strategy workshop.
Strategy workshops can take a long time to develop and end up with few outcomes. You end up needing another meeting, and another, and another. This causes people to feel impatient, frustrated, and confused. This leaves the leader of the meeting feeling hopeless and emotionally drained.
The 5 Best Psychological Safety Exercises
What are the most helpful psychological safety exercises?
You know deep down that your team is a great one, but there is an issue that keeps coming up. The team does not feel truly safe and comfortable with one another. They need more psychological safety at work.
They keep quiet when asked for their opinion. They don’t work as collaboratively as they can. Sometimes there is a mentality of us vs. them.
7 Important Principles Behind Psychological Safety Exercises
What are the principles behind creating psychological safety exercises?
You can tell that the team is not feeling psychologically safe. You see people are having difficulties working with one another. People are staying quiet when asked questions. When you want to brainstorm new ideas, people keep hush hush. When you're trying to figure out a problem, the team averts their eyes.
7 Key Benefits to Psychological Safety Exercises
You see people working together and they are staying quiet, which makes your work a lot more stressful and just not enjoyable. People often feel scared to share openly with one another. There is something wrong here, you want to change and you know that psychological safety at work can help. But you aren’t sure how to articulate what psychological safety can do?
Four Best Ways To Feel Prepared For Challenging Conversations
Ready for meetings that matters?
It’s easier to keep meetings surface level. Keeping hush hush about the real problems that are happening. No one judges you, no one attacks you, no one dismisses you. You keep the peace when staying silent about the real issues. Avoiding potential outbursts and divisiveness that can ensue.
But deep down inside you feel disheartened, and even powerless to speak up. You know there has to be a better way to have these meetings. That these meetings are not at their full potential.
Six Easy Ways To Confidently Speak Up In A Meeting
Three Keys For Engaging Meetings
The intentions of meetings are fantastic. Let's work together to get things done. But they seldom feel that way. Conversations jump from one topic to another, people are disengaged and at the end, it leaves people wondering, “Soooo, now what”? People feel unheard, frustrated, and demotivated for the next meeting.
But meetings are such a great opportunity if they are done right. They can deepen relationships, create clarity and leave people feeling motivated!