Scholarly Article, Psychological Safety: Cornell University – Edmonson
Published in 1999, this article still establishes the important connection between psychological safety and performance. Psychological safety impacts learning behavior, which impacts long term performance.
Why the UWES is a Great Tool for Measuring Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a key factor for organizational success, as it reflects the degree to which employees are committed, motivated and involved in their work. However, measuring employee engagement is not an easy task, as different definitions and instruments exist in the literature. One of the most widely used and validated tools for assessing employee engagement is the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES),
Sam Altman Firing: How It Will Affect Company Culture at OpenAI
Any firing has the ability to send shockwaves of insecurity through your culture. Especially when the founder and CEO is fired for no significant reason. It can result in the value of each employee being reduced to a number and an outcome, and each employee can be waiting for their number to come up. A culture of threat will have a massive impact on the future creativity of the organization as the brain shifts into threat avoidance mode.
Avoiding Culture Meltdowns
I experienced an epic diversity meltdown. Let me give you some context before I tell you how things blew up.
A Culture’s Journey to Valuing People
Each of us asks the question, “Am I loved?” And when we come together into cultures, we seek to answer this question in the faces, actions and words of others. We collectively in cultures seek to answer this question.
Peaceful Pandemic? How to Pivot Your Culture Towards Hope in Crisis
Psychological flexibility is about facing reality well, not painting a happy face on it. It’s about igniting the deep values that truly make us who we are. More than just bringing comfort in tough times, these techniques have been used to transform workplace cultures into positive, productive communities.
Is your culture stuck and won’t accept positive change?
Ever feel frustrated with your staff? Why can’t we get this right?! Why can’t we grow and change? ! It’s easy for us to blame issues on the characters of others.
The Ideal Culture Blueprint Exists, and 3 Ideals to Build on
Is there a perfect or ideal culture? Is there a culture that is better than others? Specifically, in the business realm is there one target blueprint culture we should all aim towards?
How to Create Psychologically Safe Teams
Google wanted to find out what made some teams more successful than others. They commissioned a study to discover what the essential factor was, and it wasn’t what you might expect.