Safe to Thrive
Organisations are learning to navigate a BANI world while learning to create different corporate work environments. Looking for safety has become for organisations a hardworking job too.
Actually, a lot that we took for granted is already being taken from us and is creating a lot of anxiety, and increasing a lot of risks, for people but also for businesses.
The capacity to foster pockets of coherence and some predictability is what will differentiate leaders and teams. Our biggest challenge may be to reinforce our sense of belonging, transparency and support and ensure we navigate the complexity and roadblocks that we are already facing, or others we will for sure encounter in the near future.
Aside improved communication we may need to abandon a more individualist, competitive approach on how we manage others for good. Gen Z (but not only) is really not here to put up with corporate bullshit or hypocrisy, their current level of trust in organisations is almost zero. The challenge is now considerable after so many fallen promises of the social contract.
How then can we step up the game in terms of safety? Making it a key priority in our culture and making sure our strategy is actually delivering safety inside and outside the organisation. Is this the case for most organisations? Not yet.
Most organisations are in survival and reactive mode and this actually fosters a culture of petty competitiveness and search for individual survival but not collective and systemic thriving. Fear is not a good promotor of health. It is nonetheless adaptive but it will not deliver the sustained people results we desire in terms of productivity, learning, creativity and health. Particularly, when fear is experienced continuously.
Learning on how to cope with fear, how to promote and increase the perception of psychological safety of my team members and enacting the key behaviours and rituals to foster this sense of protection is enabling some organisations to surf this gigantic wave of chaotic change. And for sure, they will get further ahead.
So in this edition of our review we invite to learn more about what is Psychological Safety in the work context and how can it be fostered in our blog post. We also suggest a great book “Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive” recently published by Prof. Amy Edmondson and finally invite you to listen to a TED Talk by Amy Edmondson, “Building a psychologically safe workplace”. We invite you to ask yourself and others in your team, are you safe?
Are you just surviving or are we thriving through this continuous unpredictable world? If not, let start working on that too.
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Managing Partner @ Bound.Health
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