We all want to succeed and we all want to do our best work. We all also want to have the people who choose to share their skills with us and do a job for us to be happy, we do. We may not actually do anything about making that happen but in principle, of course we all want that. What makes our...
Ready for the “Even Greater Resignation” or "Great Resignation 2.0" or whatever else "catchy" title the papers will give it? No, no one is, but they’re both coming. As is a wave of “I deserve better” generalised self-respecting attitude of the workers that refuse to be the next victims of...
I see people spending time turning their thoughts into quotes complete with photos of themselves looking pensively into the distance and I sometimes cringe on their behalf. A step above liking and retweeting your own tweet, while we all can teach others many things, isn’t it awfully presumptuous...
What’s the hold-up? Why do we talk so much about Psychological Safety and solid happy teams and we do so little? Well, if you imagine an axis starting from “just concept” and ending up with “execution (aka sustained and habitual human work at the team level with a focus on Psychological Safety...
Whose to-do is Psychological Safety? Increasing it in the organisation to become so high performing you compete with Silicon Valley? Is it leadership’s? HR’s only and if so is it L&D? Engagement? Performance? What about comms - should they help? What about Ops? Comps? So far it has been the...
We need to speak about our technologists again - what are they like? Who are they? Who needs to spend time comprehending them and accommodating their needs? Obviously, the most immediate answer is "the team leader" but anyone who has a vested interest in getting a product job done in a certain...
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I was looking for an article to send to a journalist that asked for a link and I ended up taking a long stroll down what we were saying roughly a year ago and musing how/if things have changed. A year ago we were writing in this article entitled “Psychological Safety for the team BY the team”
First of all, an apology - this newsletter hasn’t had this big of a gap before, this is the first time in two years I’ve slacked. I’m very grateful to all the readers who asked how I was and if everything was alright. It definitely is, more than alright, I’ve just been on the road from Central...
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Our “broken record” thesis? “We have to normalise doing “the human work” if we expect performance”, you read it here every week. This week I invite us again, to think of Emotional Intelligence. We wrote about it often and as a company, we spent a long time thinking about the topic and its...
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