How Learning From Mistakes Ensures Psychological Safety In The Workplace
Making mistakes at work is not as horrifying as you might think. Once a team member feels included, step one of psychological safety, they’ll want to know if learning “on the job” is part of the work culture they can expect.
More specifically, if they make a mistake while fulfilling their job duties, they want to know if they’re supported to learn from it. A company that values learning from mistakes instead of taking a punitive approach harbors growth and development of its team. Abiding by this approach is key to establishing psychological safety.
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How To Model Inclusion Safety In A Psychologically Safe Workplace
Without inclusion safety, this may be your everyday scenario.
Imagine you lead a team made up of high-level, licensed professionals. People who need to meet several benchmarks, including passing a team panel interview to even be considered for their roles.
Now imagine losing close to 40% of them before their 90-day probationary period expires.
It’s enough to make you think you’re just mis-hiring. But, given the extreme measures each person had to meet to win their position, you’d be missing the mark to count it as poor placement.
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Why Psychological Safety Matters If Success Is Your Ultimate Goal
Psychological safety allows a team member to bring their full self to work. To be rewarded for their knowledge, contributions, and ideas. It combines respect for the team’s ideas and expertise, with permission to use those ideas to help the team to make better decisions and innovate.
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Little Dog, Big Leadership Lessons
The pandemic is changing things for all of us, ourselves and our team members. After a walk with my dog this morning I realized there were big leadership lessons in the smallest things.
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Are You a Clinician Exploring Well-being? Think Inside the Box!
Clinicians exploring balance and well-being are frequently encouraged to “think outside the box.” I don’t find that to be very helpful. The first step on the road to well-being is to think ”Inside the Box!”
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Reframing our Circumstances: What Happens to Us, Happens for Us!
As leaders, our natural impulse is to wrestle a list of issues to resolution. How can we help ourselves and our teams reframe our perspective to focus on our relationship to the issues instead?
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When Coaching Physicians with Wellness, Don’t Lead with Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be a powerful tool to help clients navigate stressful situations, find grounding and balance, but when coaching physicians or physician leaders, leading with mindfulness can cause a negative reaction. Timing and context are key!
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Don't take the Bypass
If this time of uncertainty, confusion or forced slowness is causing you to want to escape, don’t take the bypass. The only way out of this is throught it!
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Lip flap? Sync up!
If you or your teams are experiencing issues with trust, retention or engagement, sometimes it can be caused by actions or communication not aligning with the stated values of the company or the core values of the leader. In those moments your video might not be matching your audio, and powerful questions might help you sync the two. Are you experiencing Lip Flap? Sync up!
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Are You a Leader or Mushroom Farmer?
Are you a leader or a mushroom farmer? How you lead your teams during times of change and uncertainty matters. Do you do it with light, transparency and nourishment or with darkness and manure?
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Experiencing "altitude sickness"?
Altitude sickness is defined as: “illness caused by ascent to a high altitude and the resulting shortage of oxygen, characterized chiefly by hyperventilation, nausea, and exhaustion…” Leaders can experience altitude sickness too!
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How does your leadership need to change?
How does your leadership need to change? If you have been promoted to a new leadership role, the scope and size of your team has increased, or you simply need a new way to think about your leadership, this post is for you.
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