Tom Geraghty
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Experimentalist, technologist, mountain biker.
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Psych Safety
3 months ago
🚀 Launch! The Psychological Safety Trainer Toolkit is here. 11 videos, slide deck, templates + resources — everything you need to run powerful psych safety sessions. 10% off this September with code LAUNCH10 🎉 👉
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Psychological Safety Trainer Toolkit
The Psychological Safety Trainer Toolkit For consultants, trainers and facilitators who want to deliver high impact psychological safety workshops and training This is the only complete guide to deliv...
https://psychsafety.com/psychological-safety-trainer-toolkit/
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Jane
11 months ago
The replies to your thread have just reminded me of this 2021 Good Life musing from Phil Gyford
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Psych Safety
4 months ago
“Look at me while I’m talking to you.” Psychological safety isn’t built with “hacks.” Eye contact may help some people feel safe — for others, it feels like surveillance, dominance, or a demand to mask. One-size-fits-all advice risks harm.
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Psychological Safety: Workplace Training, Online Workshops and Consultancy
Our team of experts around the world will help you make psychological safety real. We are psychological safety. Training Online Workshops Resources Organisational Safety and Performance Psychological ...
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Psych Safety
5 months ago
Not everyone stays silent for the same reason. Are they Fear‑Averse, Competence‑Anxious, or Cynical‑Conformists? Diagnose your team members' archetypes and tailor your psychological‑safety strategy.
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Barriers to Psychological Safety
Barriers to Psychological Safety There are many team-level, organisation-level and broader barriers to speaking up, including (most significantly) steep power gradients, cultural norms (organisational...
https://psychsafety.com/barriers-to-psychological-safety/
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Psych Safety
5 months ago
Claims of ‘too much psychological safety’ often ignore the cost: which voices are we suggesting should be quieter, and what might we be willing to miss as a result?
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Psych Safety
5 months ago
Carl Rogers argued creativity can’t be forced—it must be invited through psychological safety: unconditional worth, no judgement, and true empathy.
#PsychSafety
#Creativity
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No matter how well-cited a theory is, if it contradicts what practitioners observe daily, it’s probably the theory that’s broken.
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Psych Safety
6 months ago
People under time pressure don’t think faster, they think less.
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Last chance to contribute to this week’s
#psychologicalsafety
research pulse! This week we’re researching familiarity with psychological safety in different fields. Respond here:
form.typeform.com/to/ApyToBcU
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"What" psychological safety?
How familiar are people with the concept of psychological safety?
https://form.typeform.com/to/ApyToBcU
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
We support LGBTQ+ rights all year round. But we also celebrate pride!
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"The “Andon Cord” is one of the most famous mechanisms for introducing a culture of quality, raising problems early, and psychological safety. We dive into it, in all of its glory, here:
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Psychological Safety: The Andon Cord
Stopping The Line Being able to “stop the line” to prevent an issue getting worse, stop a defect passing downstream, suggest an idea for improvement when it can endow maximum benefit, or ask for help…
https://psychsafety.com/psychological-safety-79-the-andon-cord/
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Survey is still open for a few days yet
add a skeleton here at some point
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If people who are accustomed to power would much rather you weren’t doing what you’re doing, keep doing it.
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Survey is still open for a few days yet
add a skeleton here at some point
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"In reality, the progression isn’t actually linear, and teams may navigate through these stages in various orders or times."
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The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
"All models are wrong and some are useful"In “The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety,” author Timothy R. Clark proposes a model of psychological safety where t...
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"It’s not the rupture that defines a relationship, but how we repair it." This week
@jadegarratt.bsky.social
explores how psychological safety isn't linear, and in fact, the process of repair and rebuilding can help make our relationships stronger than before.
psychsafety.com/rebuilding-p...
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Rebuilding Psychological Safety When It's Broken
By Jade Garratt Which of these do you think might damage psychological safety in a team? The answer, of course, is that all of them can. Sometimes it’s individual behaviours that cause harm to the psy...
https://psychsafety.com/rebuilding-psychological-safety-when-its-broken/
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
*Why* do you foster psychological safety? Answer this one-question survey and help us gather insights in our weekly Research Pulse, and be in with a chance to win a goody bag of stickers!
form.typeform.com/to/j5pwlNpU
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"Why" psychological safety?
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
https://form.typeform.com/to/j5pwlNpU
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Why is
#JustCulture
still a struggle? Without psychological safety, reporting systems gather dust. We need psychological safety - deep shifts in values, behaviors, and structure, not just mechanics.
psychsafety.com/just-culture/
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Just Culture
Why Just Culture Isn’t Sticking by Tom Geraghty What Do We Mean by “Just” Culture? The concept of a “Just Culture” was first developed in James Reason’s 1997 book Managing the Risks of Organisational ...
https://psychsafety.com/just-culture/
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Jade Garratt
7 months ago
I’m running 107km this month with
@tomgeraghty.bsky.social
for
#StrideForPalestinians
. It hurts, but nothing like what families in Gaza are facing. Please donate if you can:
medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jade-garr...
Thank you ❤️🍉
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
This week in
#psychologicalsafety
, we have a deeper dive from
@jadegarratt.bsky.social
on a classic concept: Transactional Analysis. “TA values and aims for clarity and honesty in both what we say and how we say it.”
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Transactional Analysis
By Jade Garratt Have you ever found yourself reacting to something a colleague said as if you were a child being told off by their parents, even though you’re both adults and peers? Or ever said somet...
https://psychsafety.com/transactional-analysis/
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
A team is only as psychologically safe as the least safe person on the team, and those with least safety tend to be those who are already minoritised, disadvantaged, or under-represented.
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Psychological Safety, Diversity & Inclusion
Inclusion is at the core of psychological safety, and must be defined as a central team value. Any individual behaviours or beliefs that don't align with the principle of inclusion must be addressed.
https://psychsafety.com/psychological-safety-inclusion-and-political-beliefs/
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Brent Toderian
7 months ago
Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars. A whole lot of urban life can fit, when we’re willing to rethink our priorities. Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
"In this special episode of the Learning Journeys Podcast, they’re joined by a Royal Air Force pilot who shares his thoughts on areas where the world of sport can learn from aviation, particularly in terms of quality debriefing and creating psychological safety".
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Psychological Safety in The Military
There’s not a great deal of research or writing available about psychological safety in the military, despite one of the best leadership books available – “Turn the Ship Around” by David Marquet,…
https://psychsafety.com/five-key-elements-of-high-performing-teams-and-psychological-safety/
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
How safe people feel when sharing feedback or co-creating solutions is pivotal to the success of any participatory process. We generally only engage to the degree that we feel safe to.
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"Our comfort doesn’t trump someone else’s needs."
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Comfort vs Need
Comfort vs Need by Tom Geraghty What do we do when the things that help some people in the team feel psychologically safer don’t work for everyone? Perhaps one person says they need time away from the...
https://psychsafety.com/comfort-vs-need/
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"Measuring psychological safety is powerful, but it’s also dangerous".
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Measuring Psychological Safety
How to Measure Psychological Safety We know psychological safety is essential for high performance teams: it enables sharing of ideas, admitting and learning from mistakes, highlighting risks, and…
https://psychsafety.com/measure-psychological-safety/
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Psych Safety
7 months ago
"Trust and psychological safety are sometimes confused with each other, and whilst they are related, trust is actually a foundational component of psychological safety, rather than the same thing."
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The Difference Between Trust And Psychological Safety
Trust is not the same as psychological safety. Trust and psychological safety are sometimes confused with each other, and whilst they are related, trust is actually a foundational component of…
https://psychsafety.com/the-difference-between-trust-and-psychological-safety/
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Kiron D. Bondale
7 months ago
"Our comfort doesn't trump someone else's needs." You nailed it in this week's
#psychologicalsafety
newsletter's main article,
@tomgeraghty.bsky.social
! All that is needed is to capitalize the first letter of the fourth word...
psychsafety.com/comfort-vs-n...
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Comfort vs Need
Comfort vs Need by Tom Geraghty What do we do when the things that help some people in the team feel psychologically safer don’t work for everyone? Perhaps one person says they need time away from the...
https://psychsafety.com/comfort-vs-need/
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Aaron Rupar
8 months ago
REPORTER: Amazon will soon display a number next to the price of each product that shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding. Isn't that a perfect demonstration that it's the American consumer who is paying for these policies? LEAVITT: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler
8 months ago
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
"One more grain of sand"—that’s all it takes when systems are on the edge. SOC explains how normal work can slowly drift into catastrophic failure.
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
“Localised excellence doesn’t scale well without coordination and alignment between groups.” This week we look at why
#psychologicalsafety
is more than just a team construct, and how we can consider weaving a fabric of it throughout an organisation.
psychsafety.com/the-organisa...
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The Organisational Fabric of Psychological Safety
The Organisational Fabric of Psychological Safety (AKA psychological safety is more than just a team phenomenon) By Tom Geraghty When we talk about psychological safety, the definition we usually use ...
https://psychsafety.com/the-organisational-fabric-of-psychological-safety/
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
“Family may offer a space where, to use Carl Roger’s original reference to psychological safety in 1954, we feel that we possess ‘unconditional worth’.” This week in
#psychologicalsafety
by
@jadegarratt.bsky.social
psychsafety.com/psychologica...
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Psychological Safety in Our Personal Lives
by Jade Garratt At Psych Safety, our focus has always been on psychological safety in the workplace – helping teams and organisations become more inclusive, equitable, and high-performing through psyc...
https://psychsafety.com/psychological-safety-in-our-personal-lives/
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
“No person in the world is so privileged as to have access to a ‘ground truth’ against which all other people’s understanding can be proven wrong or inaccurate… Everybody’s perspective is subjective.” Sidney Dekker
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Psych Safety
8 months ago
"There’s a risk with organisations that we trim them so much to the bone, making them so ruthlessly efficient and lean, and so highly tuned to our current economic and consumer state that we’re vulnerable to a catastrophic failure that we simply didn’t see coming."
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Efficiency versus Resilience
Efficiency vs Resilience By Tom Geraghty Standardisation is often used as a way to increase organisational efficiency and scalability. Through reducing variation, we can standardise our tools, trainin...
https://psychsafety.com/efficiency-vs-resilience/
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Tim Harford
8 months ago
At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again!
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Tariffs
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The Onion
9 months ago
Look At This Chart. What If It Means Something Bad?
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“No person in the world is so privileged as to have access to a ‘ground truth’ against which all other people’s understanding can be proven wrong or inaccurate… Everybody’s perspective is subjective.”
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All Feedback Is Subjective
All Feedback Is Subjective By Jade Garratt All Feedback Is Subjective … And Why That Matters for Psychological Safety “No person in the world is so privileged as to have access to a ‘ground truth’ ag...
https://psychsafety.com/all-feedback-is-subjective/
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"Too often, we treat feedback as factual reporting, but even when we're trying to be as 'honest' as possible, the feedback we choose to give will always be filtered through our personal lenses."
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All Feedback Is Subjective
All Feedback Is Subjective By Jade Garratt All Feedback Is Subjective … And Why That Matters for Psychological Safety “No person in the world is so privileged as to have access to a ‘ground truth’ ag...
https://psychsafety.com/all-feedback-is-subjective/
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9 months ago
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History repeatedly shows us that when we prioritise efficiency and standardisation at all costs, we're vulnerable to disaster. This week we explore the tension between efficiency and resilience, using an example of ancient farming practices.
psychsafety.com/efficiency-v...
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Efficiency versus Resilience
Efficiency vs Resilience By Tom Geraghty Standardisation is often used as a way to increase organisational efficiency and scalability. Through reducing variation, we can standardise our tools, trainin...
https://psychsafety.com/efficiency-vs-resilience/
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"No one thinks they’re a micromanager."
@jadegarratt.bsky.social
's piece this week highlights why micromanagement damages trust and psychological safety, stifles innovation, and creates anxiety, ultimately limiting what teams can achieve. Read the full article here:
psychsafety.com/micromanagem...
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Micromanagement
Psychological Safety and Micromanagement By Jade Garratt Those who have followed our work at Psych Safety for a while will know that we believe exploring not just what to do – the behaviours and pract...
https://psychsafety.com/micromanagement/
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Santiago Mayer
9 months ago
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
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In ecology, small interventions such as rewetting a peat bog can create the foundation for thriving, resilient ecosystems. Similarly, by raising the 'water table' of psychological safety in our organisations, we enable innovation and emergent change.
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Rewetting Organisations
Rewetting Organisations by Tom Geraghty Rewetting Organisations: allowing the system to self-organise by creating the underlying conditions for improvement. When I was studying ecology at university, ...
https://psychsafety.com/rewetting-organisations/
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"Participation doesn’t always guarantee engagement, which is about how deeply individuals feel invested in and connected to the process." This week's newsletter is by
@jadegarratt.bsky.social
psychsafety.com/spectra-of-p...
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Spectra of Participation
Spectra of Participation by Jade Garratt Engagement and participation are terms we often throw around to mean “getting people’s take on issues that affect them.” But not all participation is created e...
https://psychsafety.com/spectra-of-participation/
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This week in
#psychologicalsafety
we're revisiting icebreakers. Plus we have some superb stuff on toxic leadership as well as a great new paper from Amy Edmondson that introduces these four typologies of team learning. Check it out here and subscribe!
psychsafety.com/newsletter-2...
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Newsletter 201: Learning Types and Toxic Leadership
Psychological Safety in Practice Team Learning in the Field: An Organizing Framework and Avenues for Future Research This excellent paper from Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey affirms that teams...
https://psychsafety.com/newsletter-201-learning-types-and-toxic-leadership/
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"In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." Baba Dioum, 1968
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We all see the world through our own, unique, lens. That lens is shaped by the environment we grew up and live in, our experiences, education, cultural history, and so much else. Including, importantly, our jobs. Déformation professionnelle.
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Déformation professionnelle.
Déformation professionnelle. By Tom Geraghty “Every specialist, owing to a well-known professional bias, believes that he understands the entire human being, while in reality he only grasps a tiny par...
https://psychsafety.com/deformation-professionnelle/
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I’m pretty sure that by the end of Trump’s term, slavery will be legal again in the USA. It’ll likely be a condition of an immigration visa. Work for free, and you can stay.
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