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.
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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[00:02:14] If you're listening to this, no doubt. You've experienced some type of working environment at some point in your life where you didn't feel"safe. I'm not talking about physical safety. What I'm really talking about is psychological safety, emotional safety. People spend so much time and effort and honestly wasted energy and wasted attention on things like office politics on trying to safeguard their job.
[00:02:40] Sometimes people spend more time trying to keep their job than actually just doing their job. And what we know about how human beings function is that when we're in a mindset where we're just playing, not to lose, to lose what we have, what we've worked so hard for when we're playing not to lose versus playing to win.
[00:03:04] Right. When we're playing not to lose, we do not function at our best, but when we're in a mindset where we're playing to win, right. Not just focusing on the mistakes we could make or how we might fail, knowing that those things are a genuine possibility, but being okay with it, because we're just focused on the winning aspect of human beings, then function at their natural best.
[00:03:32] So leaders. It is on you to create an environment in which your people feel safe, not just physically safe, but mentally safe, emotionally safe, psychologically safe, that they aren't always having to look over their shoulder, to the left and to the right worrying about who's coming to get them, or what kind of office politics or company politics or back fighting, or the meetings after the meetings or their water cooler conversations.
[00:04:02] They're going to come back to get them. You see teams that have a natural open and honest ability to trust one, another mistakes and all flaws and all that people can actually be like, like buck naked with each other, Patrick Lencioni. That's how he works at that. People can be just virtually buck naked with one another flaws, mistakes, and awe.
[00:04:27] We can come to the table being really vulnerable with each other about where we're good and where we're not. Those are the teams that actually function at the h
