On June 16 I will be hosting the DevOps Transformation Day and giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety. Join me at DevOpsCon Berlin.

DevOps Transformation Day

By joining DevOpsCon’s Transformation Day, you’ll get a comprehensive insight into all the necessary aspects to make a DevOps transformation in your organization successful. As many DevOps efforts struggle with developing an appropriate company culture, DevOpsCon’s Transformation Day focuses on becoming more agile as an entire organization.

You will not only get valuable insights into many theoretical aspects of a DevOps transformation, but you’ll learn through practical examples how to encourage a sustainable culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Insights, Strategy & Culture in One Day!

Workshop: Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety

Many DevOps efforts struggle with developing an appropriate company culture. Psychological safety is a key enabler for an effective and sustainable organizational-wide collaborative culture. It increases personal engagement, makes it easier for people to speak up at work, and enables learning from failure. When people feel psychologically safe, your organization will become more adaptive and resilient, able to deal with changes and innovate.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to foster a culture of psychological safety that enables high-performing teams to deliver faster and better. The practical exercises teach you to recognize the warning signals of low psychological safety and to take appropriate action to increase the level of psychological safety.

Psychological safety is important for tech organizations as it enables faster delivery, innovation, learning from failures, and experimentation. People only dare to challenge the status quo when they feel included and safe to contribute. Then failures can become opportunities for learning and sharing ideas for improvement across the whole organization.

Learning objectives:
– Learn what psychological safety is and what it isn’t
– Recognize warning signals of low psychological safety
– See the benefits that improving psychological safety can bring
– Explore factors that foster and drive psychological safety

Agenda:
– Workshop introduction and check-in exercise
– Definitions and theory of psychological safety
– What psychological safety isn’t, and what to (not) expect from it
– How psychological safety and DevOps relate to each other
– Exercise: Recognizing warning signals about lower levels of psychological safety
– The benefits that psychological safety can bring
– Exercise: Exploring factors that drive and foster psychological safety
– Dos and don’ts for leaders for establishing psychological safety.
– Wrap up, ask me anything, and takeaways

DevOpsCon Berlin

DevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools.

How do cloud platforms, microservices, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization?

At DevOpsCon, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise.