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The Fearless Organization

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations to create psychologically safe environments where there is trust and respect allowing people to speak without fear enables performance and retention.

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

Marshall Rosenberg coined the term non-violent communication as a way of communicating by giving from the heart is grounded in communication skills most notably respect, empathy and compassion that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying times.

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation

Clark finds that fear has a negative impact on engagement, learning efficacy, productivity, and innovation. Clark presents his four stages of psychological safety to eliminate fear that includes: inclusion safety, learner safety, contributor safety, and challenger safter for team performance and creating an inclusive culture.

Not Light, but Fire

Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action, “it is not light that is needed, but fire”, author Matthew Kay has spent his career learning how to lead students through the most difficult race conversations beginning with create safe learning environments.

Dr. Deming

Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality

Deming most noted for his 14 points of total quality management observed that fear impeded employee and organizational performance. Point 8 Driving Out Fear states:  "Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company."  Eliminating or reducing fear enables motivation and is the key to greater communication and collaboration. Furthermore Deming, observed that his students feared grades creating barriers to their motivation and performance.  

The Hero Code

The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived

The Hero Code is Admiral McRaven's tribute to the real, everyday heroes he's met over the years. Being a hero is a learned leadership experience that requires courage, humility, sacrifice, integrity, and compassion, perseverance, duty, hope, humor and forgiveness.

Teams of Teams

Stan McChrystal (Gen. US Army, retired) in his book Teams of Teams (2015) also found in a military organization that common purpose, trust, respect, empathy, compassion, and humility balanced with the unique needs of the military fosters individual, team and cross-team performance.