Support Psychological Safety With Your Digital Workplace Design

While a robust digital workplace makes it easy for employees to connect and efficiently complete required tasks, a knowledge-centric digital workplace supports more effective problem-solving, creates leaders at all levels and promotes psychological safety by centering an organization's most valuable asset: the knowledge of its people.

A digital workplace that strategically centers knowledge is critical to elevating your organization's learning and innovation culture.

Correspondingly, we hope to see increasing employer focus on fostering a sense of fulfillment, connection, and support across in-office and remote workers alike. For companies expanding remote work optionality, what new systems will be needed to build and sustain community and culture across the organization?

- Lower the barriers to communication ○ Elect tools that encourage easy communication and transparency § Slack § Zoom § Figma - Make shared objectives explicit ○ Common cause is the glue that binds a team together ○ Before launching your team, start by specifying the why § 2 months: ask "what should our team accomplish in two months?" □ Encourage d... See more

Because of organizational power structures and hierarchies, people are often nervous about expressing their real understanding and ideas. Contributors can be unsure about the value of their input and the consequences of sharing it with the group. Under these circumstances, sharing ideas constitutes a risk, especially when those ideas come from peop

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Colleagues are exposed repeatedly every week to a space made safe by ground rules that invites them to truly be themselves. They learn to see each other in the light of their deep humanity, in the beauty of their strengths and vulnerability. The trust, empathy, and compassion that build up in the meeting expand well beyond the confines of the meeti

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