CBT for Teams by Teams

At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us about a demo at contact@peoplenottech.com

As promised, after yesterday’s theoretical article, we’re discussing what “CBT for Teams” entails in this video that sees us discuss why it’s important to walk away from the empty rhetoric of “culture” and “organisation” and instead roll sleeves and work hard to see the HumanDebt™reduce, the people work commence and the Psychological Safety and therefore happiness and performance of teams increase.

“When teams get over that initial reluctance and become engaged, they undergo what looks like a sudden miraculous transformation. We’ve seen it so many times before. They go from disengaged and hopeless to empowered and addicted to bettering their team dynamic and it is all because they can see direct effects of their own actions as they translate in their own data they can see at their own team bubble level.

It is indeed the same effect individuals derive from effective CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - a type of psychotherapy which focuses on educating the individual so they cultivate the ability to recognise, reframe and correct behaviour) - a sense of accomplishment in seeing a change that is beneficial. When teams see they can actually increase their Psychological Safety by encouraging the positive behaviours and learning to suppress the negative ones, they realise they are in control of their own team’s destiny and that is a powerful realisation that’s instinctively desirable and makes them autonomous and empowered in a way they had never had before.

This is why, we sometimes refer to our Dashboard as “CBT for teams” because seeing the data on how the team is feeling is enlightening and puts solutions at the fingertips of every team member, bringing the power to build better, healthier and happier team dynamics to the team level from the HR/organisational level where they previously thought it lived and then distributes it equally between all team members when no particular person is in charge but the whole team works collectively to analyse the measurements, decide on and execute the next Team Action. We built the Playbook -a crowdsourced collection of detailed step-by-step examples of team actions that have had positive effects on the Psychological Safety of other teams- so that it aids with that initial reluctance by offering direct strategies and tools accessible to all”