Hi. It's Mike Raven.
Here it is episode 320, it has been a while.
I'm going to try to do more of these.
It's November 10th 2022. Today I'm reading a post that I
recently published titled psychological safety as a
precondition for lean. Simply put we cannot get 20 harm
without psychological safety. I wrote that as part of a page
that I published on the value capture website, you can find a
link to it in the blog post for this episode.
You can go to lean blog dot org slash audio 320 that page on the
valley capture website is titled psychological safety and it's
essential link to continuous Improvement.
I hope you will go check that out, but I've come to understand
that psychological. Safety.
This concept, this real thing that is out there in
organizations or not. It's a precondition for
implementing lean. Or however you might say it.
And I should go back and clarify, it's not, yes, no.
In terms of psychological safety, there are degrees of
psychological safety that are felt in perceived by different
people in an organization or not felt.
But anyway, Toyota seems to strive for if not have
Relatively high level of psychological safety.
You can't expect to copy, Toyota tools, and expect them to work
the same way with the same Effectiveness in your workplace.
If you don't have a high enough level of psychological safety
where you are, you can't have continuous Improvement without a
high enough. Level of psychological safety,
you won't have high class performance without a high
enough level of psychological safety.
So again, why do I say High Enough?
If it's not a binary, yes, no situation.
When it comes to psychological safety, there is a spectrum.
We don't say or ask, is it psychologically safe.
That asks for a yes-no answer it's more a matter of how safe
is it. And again, safety is a matter of
individual perspective, how safe do you feel that?
It is the same environment. Might feel relatively safe for
you, but at the same time, not for me.
Tan are different experiences. Both in the current organization
as well as past experiences. Or you might say baggage that we
bring with us as we each way the decision of do, I speak up to
challenge the status quo or not? Your risk-reward balance, might
very well be different than mine so I'm excited to have been
trained and certified by a company called leader factor on
a methodology they refer to and there's a great book.
Book by the same Title, by Timothy our Clark, the four
stages of psychological safety. This methodology can be used to
measure learn and improve psychological safety.
My learning continues, I've been really energized by what I've
learned from, Tim Clark, his work and from leader factor, I
would love to work with you on this within your team or your
organization. If you would like to talk about
how to measure learn and improve.
Psychological safety, you can contact me.
If you'd like to talk you can do.
So by going to lien blog, dot org, slash contact or you can
email me Mark at lean blog dot-org.
If you'd like to talk you can do.
So by going to lien blog, dot org, slash contact or you can
email me Mark at lean blog dot-org.