For the next two days I will be live blogging the Global Leadership Summit. This is a special moment as the Summit will be celebrating its 25th year of investing in leaders.
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Day 2’s first speaker was Amy Edmondson. Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global list of top management thinkers since 2011. She is the author of four books including her most recent release: The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about finding success in today’s modern economy.
The following are 23 Leadership Quotes From Amy Edmondson’s session on Psychological Safety:
- We live in a VUCO world – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
- Anyone’s voice at any time can be mission critical.
- Impression management is second nature.
- This is a state of playing not to lose.
- Impression management should be in the back seat, not driving the car. The mission should be in charge.
- Psychological Safety is a belief that the context is safe for interpersonal risk-taking – that speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes will be welcomed and valued even when I’m wrong. It’s a sense of permission for candor.
- Psychological Safety is not being nice, a license to whine, guarantee your ideas will be applauded, and free from conflict.
- Fear of missing a deadline is motivating. Fear of each other is problematic.
- At Google, psychological safety was the main differentiator in high performing teams.
- As leaders, it is your job to create a safe environment for people to bring themselves to work.
- I don’t see many places in the comfort zone anymore. I see many companies in the anxiety zone. You need to be in the learning zone. That’s where high performance happens.
- Failure is not all bad. It’s how we learn, innovate, and grow.
- Failure is not all good either. Preventable failure (Mistakes) is where we know how to do it right. Complex failures (Accidents) produce an unexpected consequence. Intelligent failure (Discovery) is when you get undesired results from a new foray into a new territory.
- An intelligent failure is pursuing something meaningful and the cost and scope are relatively small and informative.
- Fail well. Promote intelligent failures.
- Frame Work. Leaders reframe the work and learn as you go.
- Invite engagement proactively. Insist on dissent.
- Equate disagreement with depth.
- Ask Good Questions. What do others think? Are we missing something? Who has a different perspective? Can you give us example?
- A good question focuses on something that matters so we can think out loud together.
- Good questions makes silence awkward.
- The essence of a productive response is appreciative and forward looking.
- It starts with humility, then curiosity, and finally empathy.
Just a great session! Next up is Pastor Michael Todd. Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.
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