Making People Feel Safe

<p class="p1">How are you making your teams feel mentally safe, psychologically safe, emotionally safe to be themselves? And when they can be themselves, they will be at their natural best for your team and your organization. And that's what you need, right? That's what you need for your team to perform.</p> <p class="p1">Go ahead and take action this week. Find somebody around you, ask them some good questions when there's a mistake that you might make fess up to it, own it. Talk about how you're going to be better because of it and continue to create the environment in which people can as well. </p> <p class="p1">[00:00:47] And today I want to have a conversation with you around safety. Now in today's day and age with the COVID-19 crisis, everybody is thinking about safety. Safety is at the forefront of everybody's minds, specifically people's physical safety, right? Leaders and organizations are spending so much time thinking about how.</p> <p class="p1">[00:01:07] We can keep our people safe, especially as we ramp back up into our workplaces, as, as quarantines start to lift, as organizations start to ramp up their operations. Again, people's physical safety is, is an incredibly important issue because people need to feel safe when they come into work that they're not going to be put at risk so that they can perform at their best.</p> <p class="p1">[00:01:34] So leaders in organizations are spending a lot of time thinking about how they keep people safe. It's not just relegated to an EHS or a safety department or a safety leader. Safety is at the forefront of everybody's mind. But when it comes to creating high performing teams and having high performing individuals, you know, people that can perform at their best as often as possible and get the kind of results that we need, our teams to get the safety and physical safety specifically, isn't the only type of safety that people need to function at a high level.</p> <p class="p1">[00:02:14] If you're listening to this, no doubt. You've experienced so