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.
Category: Neuroscience
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.
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.
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.
Three Things Every Leader Must Do To Lead
The three keys to leadership are likely things you’ve not heard before. Watch this video to find out, or read the transcript included.
Oxytocin, We are Wired to Connect in Business
Oxytocin increases trust and engagement between people. Business can be a stimulus of oxytocin. The key is that it must be done in a way that stirs positive regard for one another.