At Google, the organisation which popularised psychological safety, also going through the current IT ‘bust cycle’, team members are asking “how safe it is really to speak up now”?

Psychological Safety, like trust, is a delicate creature.

• Will Eric Yuan’s announcement increase the workforce’s appetite for risk?

Now that we've been experimenting with #HybridWork rhythms and routines, the conversation is turning to Culture.

• How do we RETAIN it or better still, IMPROVE it?

• What type of #leadership optimises culture and performance?

• What role does #PsychologicalSafety play?

Research from the Human Behaviour Lab at MIT provides insights to explain why so many managers have a preference for physically co-located teams.

• Given the confluence of factors pointing to Hybrid WorkPlaces, how can Leaders and Teams maximise benefits and minimise risks to co-create a High Performance Hybrid Team?

Psychological Safety - does it compete with or complement achieving business results?

• How does Psychological Safety at Work contribute to better business outcomes?

• How does each Leadership Level execute Psychological Safety differently?

• How does Psychological Safety impact Wellbeing and Belonging?

Feeling Fatigued?

Yet, looking for a way to ensure your team leave 2020 feeling they are a valued member of a thriving team, in one of the toughest years on record?

• The answer may lie at the intersection of research on Wellbeing and Psychological Safety.

To engage in conflict and collaboration, we need both will and skill.

• How do we ensure we don’t ‘kill the will’ through false positivity or fear?

• How do we leverage the foundations of connection and curiosity to create a culture ripe for constructive conflict and collaboration?

The expression in retailers’ eyes yesterday was different.

“This was our last hope” she said - as we both had tears in our eyes.

Just last week I predicted we’d need 3 key skills in 2021. It turns out I needed to put Grit and Resilience into action earlier than I’d anticipated and found myself urgently asking:

• how do you actually DO, ‘grit and resilience’?

• How do you recharge your mental and emotional reserves when the very plans you’d made to do just that - crumble?