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Posts from Awesome Folks #14
Emily Webber
June 10, 2022
Hello,
This week has all the feeling of summer, with warm days and bunting still hanging around my local streets.
A few articles have popped up in my feeds on the ever-popular and important topic of psychological safety. If you want to go deeper, check out Amy Edmonson and her work on fearless organisations.
Happy reading and happy Friday
Emily
People and culture
Do What You Love. And Love What You Do
If you pay more, and offer performance bonuses, you’ll get more from employees. This has been ‘true’ forever, right? Well, I say we should rid ourselves of these misunderstandings, because there are better ways to inspire your people.
Fostering Ethical Conduct Through Psychological Safety
Line managers are key to creating safe spaces for employees to discuss concerns.
Is defensive thinking keeping you from your best ideas?
There’s often a misconception that new ideas or solutions to problems are the guaranteed results of any well-intentioned meeting. But alignment on the outcome doesn’t automatically mean that the rest of the dance will unfold as intended.
https://jackiecolburn.medium.com/is-defensive-thinking-keeping-you-from-your-best-ideas-587f964d0cc0
How To Get Promoted In A Company With No Managers?
Self-management. Self-organising. Teal. Sociocracy. Holacracy. All have something in common – the fundamental belief that decentralising power is the right way to run a business.
Leaders, here's how you may be the obstacle to your team's psychological safety
According to new research, toxic work culture was the single biggest predictor of attrition during the first six months of The Great Resignation. Psychological safety is clearly no longer just a 'nice to have', but an essential.
Organisations and systems
TBM 25/52: In Defense of Frameworks (and Process)
In this post I am going to defend frameworks and processes. You have a process—no matter what. It may be flexible. It may be implicit. It may involve a lot of spot-judgment. But it is a process.
How we used Conway’s Law to create high-performing teams
It was 2020, when most of the world was in lockdown, that the leadership team for my portfolio realised the majority of our domain knowledge was residing where it shouldn’t: in the heads of key individuals, rather than our cross-functional engineering teams.
Setting and measuring goals
Validating key results is messy
Key results, the “KR” in OKR, are assumptions. They are your best guess at which and how much behavior change in your users indicates you’ve delivered value. Once agreed upon, a team starts working to drive that behavior change.
Tools and approaches for teams
How teams spend their time
When teams build software and run it in production they need to divide their time between these responsibilities. How teams spend their time is a good indicator of team and system health. Most teams overestimate their capacity for feature development, causing tech debt to grow.
