Thank you for sharing this, Kevin. I was thinking about sharing it more widely last week, but didn't get a chance.
Is there somewhere that TPG (or anyone) has accumulated links about things like this besides the archives of this mailing list? Anne On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Mukunda Modell <mmod...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > psychological safety — a group culture that the Harvard Business School >> professor Amy Edmondson defines as a ‘‘shared belief held by members of a >> team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.’’ Psychological >> safety is ‘‘a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject >> or punish someone for speaking up,’’ Edmondson wrote in a study >> published in 1999 >> <http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=e55fd191-97da-4b52-a54d-d1ae6abb0a6e%40sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=2003235&db=bth>. >> ‘‘It describes a team climate characterized by interpersonal trust and >> mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.’’ > > > This is precisely why I like being a part of #releng, and I think it does > indeed contribute quite a bit to working effectively "#together." > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Subramanya Sastry <ssas...@wikimedia.org > > wrote: > >> I read that article as well .. To me, this section stood out: >> >> *"What Project Aristotle has taught people within Google is that no one >> wants to put on a ‘‘work face’’ when they get to the office. No one wants >> to leave part of their personality and inner life at home. But to be fully >> present at work, to feel ‘‘psychologically safe,’’ we must know that we can >> be free enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without fear >> of recriminations. We must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to >> have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy. We can’t >> be focused just on efficiency"* >> >> >> On 02/26/2016 12:20 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: >> >> Forwarding this to a wider list, since I think it's of interest to anyone >> who works with teams. >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Kristen Lans wrote: >> >>> >>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html >>> - >> >> >> It's a pretty long article, so for those who are short on time, here is >> my very very abbreviated tl;dr: >> >> Google did a bunch of research to try go figure out why some teams are >> effective and others are not. >> >> "First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, >> a phenomenon the researchers referred to as 'equality in distribution of >> conversational turn-taking.' " Note that there are a number of styles to >> achieve this, including talking over each other, but fairly and with >> consent. >> >> "Second, the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a >> fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on >> their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues." >> >> "But Google’s data indicated that psychological safety, more than >> anything else, was critical to making a team work." >> >> >> Kevin Smith >> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing >> listteampractices@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- *Anne Gomez* // Product Manager, Fundraising & Reading https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
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