Psychological Safety at Work

[@youhavegifts]

Pshychological safety is a crucial factor in performance and productivity. It by default creates a far more productive environment than high strung productivity focused

[@35Daniel]

I'm amazed to still see high level "executives" and directors who still do not have baseline communication or team leadership skills, even if in reputable companies. I'm very thankful to be working with competent and generally responsible people now -- big relief!

[@Karmajo2024]

Ugh. I’m going through this so hard rn. I’m so tormented by it all the time anymore…

[@kimlec3592]

Emotional/psychological safety : feeling ok to be honest - crucial at home & at work !

[@brandonangel6651]

Appreciate you Simon! Thank you for all that you do!

[@agbiemmanuel2426]

Love listening to you.

[@agbiemmanuel2426]

You inspired me to start my channel

[@zertoil]

I wish that I could say I have experienced this. However, no matter where I work I get shafted. I always work harder, longer, faster and more efficient than my peers. I always help them when they need it and take on their work load when they go on vacation. Then one day I criticized the new in office times and bam, fired. Was there exactly a year too. Problem is I can't confirm that what I said was why I was fired but it definitely wasn't due to performance or attendance. I liked my job, I was comfortable and everyone knew I worked hard. I just didn't like that when I was hired I was told I could be a remote employee, only for that to change to hybrid and then full time. I wasn't the only one but I was the one that spoke up. So I guess they needed to make an example. Personally, if I was running a company I would never punish someone with a concern. I would find out how I can help and do the best I can to help.

[@xm9145]

Same happened to me. Worked harder than the others, took over additional work, but it was never enough in their eyes. At some point I spoke up to enforce fairer distribution of the work load within our team without any real outcome at the beginning as no-one else would do anything additionally and I was kept because WHO should Take over my Work load Overall the big project. When project was nearly finished I was laid off, so that my boss and team members could earn the reward for the good work and their effort in project themselves without even having attributed anything. Therefore, never speak up and be careful what you say to your boss or HR 🤐

[@cilla8137]

I literally do not know what this feels like. I never been offered this, in fact have been abused in work experience more.

[@MrKr0ws]

In retail, when your teams feel safe, so do your customers. Practicing open communication with your team trains them to have open communication with the customer. This does two things, increase trust of our customers, and gives us the ability to solicit feedback at the store level before it becomes a bigger problem.

[@Goldenheart2911]

Amen🙏 When we are able to provide ourselves and others with a safe place in which we can all feel seen, heard, valued and respected we are laying the foundation in which all of the relationships in our lives can be strengthened, deepened, discovered, explored and built on solid ground in a healthy and meaningful way.💛 Excellent clip Simon and reminder that sharing is caring.🙌💪😊✋

[@slm2021]

However wonderful and powerful it is to hear this conversation 🙏❤️

[@nataliemclennan7728]

Thank you for sharing 😊 trusting teams ❤ I'm very lucky to be part of one

[@BQ900]

This is so helpful to my husband because he is running some businesses that his father gave him. He’s learning to deal with employees.

[@CherryLamb]

I have never had a company that has supported me , I could never be honest with people I work with or work for , it's weakness and some would jump on it

[@myday2704]

Yes true you have sharks in workplaces just waiting for an opportunity. And they usually get rewarded for their agessive behaviour.

[@myday2704]

Finding a team like this is like finding a unicorn in 2024. Everyone is stressed out, overworked, struggling financially and desperate to get ahead even if that involves dirty tactics against others.

[@chrisberdis6228]

Spot on....

[@annequintus-bosz3714]

Yes, it’s a work “game changer “💯😀

[@sandycontessa_1111]

Such wise, great advice you give…! Thank you, Simon 🙏🏼😘

[@candaceturcotte2863]

I asked for help at work 4 years ago. 2 days after I requested help Inwas told I had to go on disability - no help just got rid of me.

[@theveterinaryoptimist]

I adore you, my friend 💚

[@xm9145]

I worked for a company which claimed a speak-up mentality and psychological safety, but it was in the end only used against the employees for lay-offs. So do never trust a company or HR 🤐

[@35Daniel]

It really depends -- does the company only talk the talk or do they walk the talk? Or, are they at least honestly trying to walk the talk?

[@xm9145]

@@35Daniel retrospectively, I would say it was more for show. The same as the big townhalls, where everything was always greater than great and where they directly lied into your face, but rumors or newspapers in the end revealed the truth...

[@noahgonzales9581]

I have never heard these phrases before

[@SeelenTaucher]

Even Job Relationships are Ships. If you Sail the boat alone during storms, IT leads to exhaustion. Lets Sail together, coz the Boat IS called Globe and Social synergetic symbiotic Beings. Soulful is Soulfuel. Thanks Simon, Global Souls and Team.

[@pamelamendoza5503]

Sadly it is not available in our company. How to address if there is no psychological safety at work ?

[@shorteningbread44]

sadly that has to be an initiative from the top down

[@elizabethTK421]

Pamela if you’ve noticed this issue then others have, too. Leaders come at all levels of an organization, and I think we can find pockets of opportunity where we can create safety for others on our teams, and normalizing vulnerability. I personally like to ask for help in low-key situations, and then thank people publicly for helping me when I needed it.

[@isunaisankazerani4304]

Well said! 👏🏼

[@The_end_of_the_f_world]

Some people see this as showing weakness. 😢

[@agathachristie9467]

When we do get that space, can't it also be taken for granted?

[@lucianeaspon8589]

I’m part of the leadership team at a public library so we’re very limited in what we can offer our staff, plus we have a manager that it’s their way or nothing. Leadership employees. In 3 weeks we lost a third of our LT, and we have no idea of what we can do to stop the bleeding.

[@PerspectiveNarrative]

Welcome to Scandinavia, where those things are a prior

[@gabrielduarte2409]

How can we make our employees feel that safety?

[@drsanjidahashi3738]

❤❤❤❤sir

[@mathieuwident3214]

Simon, you start by saying "we all know what psychological safety is" I wish you were right but I have met people that never experienced that, straight out of school (not much of psychological safety there) into the meat grinder. Their referential of what work life is is wrong, they are ferrals. How would you help young professionals that have NEVER experienced psychological safety in their work?

[@koumyou3333]

I'm in my mid-thirties and I never felt this safety. I didn't even know it was a thing.

[@mathieuwident3214]

@@koumyou3333 I am sorry to hear that and you are far from alone. But your reaction to my comment gives me hope because, despite not having experienced it yourself you following Simon's talks tells me that you are willing to be a better leader that the ones that lead you. You should be praised for this. I wish you all the best on your journey to compassionate leadership.

[@koumyou3333]

​@@mathieuwident3214I just came back, not expecting an answer. Thank you 🙂

[@MaryettaRusso-ri9fj]

This a tool for someone that can be against you

[@ebm8922]

My dear Simon, could you tell me why almost all supervisors or managers lack of support skills towards employees? Why are so jerks?

[@t_n_rasberry8387]

I've noticed it's all due to management. A company can have the ability to support someone but if the manager is not readily supportive and give a fuss everytime support it's asked, most people don't ask or tell and just grit their teeth through the work because it's a toxic environment where everyone is not helping each other under the rule of the manager.

[@faridaaktar9387]

Missing me

[@faridaaktar9387]

I am not

[@jaredschoenfeld2559]

There is almost no where I know where you can say those things and expect honest help.

[@conned]

I agree, but the office is getting to be toxic, woke cancer culture., especially with the leadership of today.. especially in the more developed "wall street" countries ..I was very stressed n burnt out in a " first world nation" but when I transferred to Jakarta, south of that country, people were less judgemental n toxic. Always a kind word n the leadership has no problem granting me flexible working hours.

[@matthewchandler2647]

This stuff makes me want to barf! Simon has clearly never run a business because this crap is the domain of non-producers, those people who can be removed from an organization and it runs better without them. And he’s an influencer 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

[@jedediahalvey5839]

That’s silly to say he has never run a company, when you are watching some of the output from his company. He has run multiple companies, in fact.

[@matthewchandler2647]

@@jedediahalvey5839 he’s a self-help guru. Yes that is his business & I’d expect he has a team of people to support him. But that’s not the same as a conventional business which must create and sell a product or service in a competitive market with thin margins. That’s a real business. Simon does not run a real business, he earns a living telling weak people the things they want to hear. He is completely irrelevant in the real business world.

[@innhubs]

But you actually look burnt out😏

[@Bidirektional]

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