For those of you who are Psychological Safety veterans and are further along the path with superheroes and advocates having made inroads and companies who now prioritise it thanks to their hard battles, this article may be too much of a return to clarity and you can skip it and instead, come back next week…Read More

Back at it team! Or are we…? It’s a weird one this year start, isn’t it? It feels like we should have so much more oomph. It feels like we ought to be brimming with gumption. That everyone should be “up and at it”. Like we are long overdue for an enthusiastic fresh start but…Read More

To reiterate what we said yesterday- empathy matters, no strike that, it’s crucial. Obviously.  We spend a lot of time with teams increasing it and checking it, we have several plays that help leaders and team members gain more of it and so on.  In its absence, nothing truly valuable is possible. We never said…Read More

Ok y’all – let’s be clear: we all collectively need a gargantuan Learning&Development effort to get to servant leadership if we want hybrid and the new reality to succeed and we need it YESTERDAY. For what it’s worth, I didn’t plan to be up in arms for my first article of the year when we…Read More

While I know there’s an intersection in subscribers, I somehow always feel like it’s more likely this team over here reads the Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter than it is likely that crowd reads this. So maybe you would have seen my “Things We Loved About 2021” article as well as the one with the announcements…Read More

As ever, our article yesterday entitled 10 Things We Loved About 2021 was of a more theoretical nature than this one but being that this is the last of the year from this series let’s look to the future. In this video, Ffion and I tell you about a few exciting things that are coming…Read More

Things We Talked About This Year Here we are at the end of the year, so it’s only fitting we take stock – I wrote over 100 editions of this newsletter this year. Frankly, they’re too many for me to write a detailed (but likely “I-told-you-so”) retrospective -or even re-read TBH!:)- but we have predicted and…Read More

Since we’re coming up to the holidays and we are all doing self-reflection here’s what tool I use for mine – my tattoo.  “The Girl With the Continuous Improvement Tattoo” – that’s what an Agile coach I’ve known for aeons called me yesterday. Only a handful of people had seen it before now, but I…Read More

Further to yesterday’s semi-rant about how we can all be more self-aware in terms of protecting against sterile theoretical exercises, today’s video focuses on three steps that are necessary in the self-reflection process of any team leader as the year is drawing to a close that we at PeopleNotTech advise our teams do: https://youtu.be/4VyWlS1qc3U Get…Read More

It’s coming to that time of the year when most of us plan to do some reflecting and thinking. It’s far from an easy thing to do with new virus threats, economical and social conundrums and the holidays’ logistics upon us but I’m willing to bet everyone has at least the intention to be introspective…Read More