I’m giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day, December 1. Book your seat.

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