Tag: psychological safety

Everyone has had the experience of walking into a meeting. The door opens, faces are closed, you take your seat, you breathe a little too loudly, some people lower their eyes, others rush to appear absorbed in their notes. There is little conversation, every word is weighed carefully, but this is not concentration, it is fear. Fear of judgment, of verbal "shots" of being "brought down" in public. When this is the case, and it is too often, the meeting is no longer a space for collective work, it is...