This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this episode recorded at QCon London 2019 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Andrea Dobson on balancing risk and psychological safety and Katherine Kirk on escaping organisational hell.

Why listen to this podcast:

• Where people work together we see behaviours that need coaching and that’s where organisational psychologists provide value

• Psychological safety is necessary in order to be able to mitigate risks

• Teams need to build habits that promote safety – ask more questions rather than blaming, and look for learning opportunities

• There is a lot to learn from Eastern philosophy about empowering people to solve their own problems rather than solving it for them

• One of the main reasons that organisation “transformations” don’t stick is due to the ingrained habits that haven’t been changed

• Frequently the issue is that the effort involved in changing habits wasn’t taken into account when the transition plan was established

• There are some common patterns which inhibit organisational change, these include: aversion, desire, restlessness (or busyness), dullness (exhaustion) and oscillating doubt

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