In today’s episode, this CxO belongs to a bank that looks they are doing good – they’re growing YOY, a mobile app on point, no scandals to report, mid-sized European organisation with a strong reputation but he says he feels defeated and doesn’t believe in the future of the organisation. […]
Duena Blomstrom
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Just a gentle “Go on John, you know you can write that piece of code/solve that problem/validate that assumption why don’t you put your name to this one?” - just you know, being supportive.
Akin to technical debt, human debt keeps accumulating when topics to do with the employees have been neglected or frankly, half-arsed for long enough. This is what is holding banks back.
Anti-Impression Management and Clarity practice: I wrote a book called “People Before Tech: Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age” At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us. We’re currently running a 4 weeks license-free trial campaign, come ask us about […]
We have a play in our PeopleNotTech Psychological Safety Dashboard Playbook called an Empathy Hackathon. In its intro it states: “With life going at a very fast pace, it is often hard to stop and think of others in a deep and meaningful way. With Emotional Intelligence comprising our ability […]
Anti-Impression Management and Clarity practice: We make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- come talk to us. We are currently running a 4 weeks license-free trial promotion! ——————————————————————————— Not everyone reading this works in technology. Even so, I’d wager even if you don’t, you would […]
When people learn to recognise their limiting-fear-based-avoidant-behaviour they tend to stop it or -at least diminish it and teams gain Psychological Safety!
This is why we refer to our PeopleNotTech Dashboard as “CBT for teams” because seeing the data on how the team is feeling is enlightening and puts solutions at the fingertips of every team member.
(...) we can and should all have an internal mental counter to stop ourselves from ever being “waterfally” and slipping
People may think I’m exaggerating when I talk about DevOps Superheroes but to keep learning and keep hoping in the face of soul-crippling organisational HumanDebt is an act of extreme courage.
Ok team, this is not going to be a cheerful good news article. How could it be? Just as we’re having some reasons to be cautiously optimistic virus wise, we’re forced to look at all kinds of other ugly boils we have been hiding and allowing to fester and that […]
(Reposted from the LinkedIn “The Future Is Agile” Newsletter) On paper, Agile teams are best suited for what we all have to face now. If not already remote or distributed, then most prepared to become so without too much faff and fuss. Added to that, existing Agile ceremonies are oftentimes […]