TOOLBOX
Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX – Get your copy!
This toolbox contains the answers to your question … “Yes, but HOW can I build psychological safety in my team?”.
The TOOLBOX is looks at each of the Five Foundations and Seven Elements and provides tools and additional assessments to make Team Psychological Safety a reality in your team!
And what does Professor Edmondson think about this TOOLBOX?
Well, asking for help is one of the Seven Elements of the Team Psychological Safety model, so I … asked her! And I am very grateful to receive her endorsement just as with my first book, The Untapped Team Advantage.
TEMPLATES to support YOUR UNTAPPED TEAM ADVANTAGE TOOLBOX
Team Leader Assessment
Leader behavior may be only one of the five foundations of team psychological safety but it is by far the most important one. That is why I created a three-level assessment tool.
A team leader can inspire their team by asking for the team to assess on the three levels and use the result to impact the level of psychological safety in their team.
The team leader assessment is covered in Chapter 3 of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX.
Download the TEAM LEADER ASSESSMENT LEVEL I template
Download the TEAM LEADER ASSESSMENT LEVEL II template
Help Board
Asking for help – and offering help – becomes easier with the simple Help Board tool. After getting familiar with the tool in a workshop setting, team members can use the Help Board as an ongoing team routine.
This is tool #5 in Chapter Five of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
User Manual
The user manual is a light but profound way for team members to share with one another “how I function”, including what works for me and what drives me crazy. Getting to know others’ User Manual takes the guess-work out of connecting with team members.
This is tool #1 in Chapter Two of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
(coming soon) Download the User Manual template
Hot Seat
The Hot Seat activity helps team members getting used to giving and receiving feedback from every other member in the team, not just from the team leader.
Cut the template in strips and let each member write down their feedback, either about what they appreciate (continue) or what they suggest should change (start or stop).
This is tool #7 in Chapter Four of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
Fifty Shades of Mistakes
Identify the root cause of a mistake on the spectrum and discover which ones are worthy of praise and which do indeed deserve blame.
Too often the default reaction is to assign blame. This tool allows a meaningful conversation about mistakes, and focuses on learning from them.
This is tool #1 in Chapter Five of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
Team Canvas
The team canvas is a key part of a team’s identity. It describes the team’s purpose, how members want to work together and deal with issues.
There are many available formats. It is key to select one to start with, but then to ensure the team owns it and modifies it as they wish.
This is tool #6 in Chapter One of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
Download the Team Canvas template from theteamcanvas.com (2 pages)
Download the Team Alignment Map template from StrategyzerSeries
Wheel of Mistakes
The Wheel of Mistakes invites a team to analyze mistakes according to the research model in Professor Edmondson’s The Right Kind of Wrong. Team members look at the context, uncertainty and state of knowledge for the types of mistakes they encounter.
This tool takes the ‘gut reaction’ out of how we often judge a mistake.
This is tool #1 in Chapter Four of Your Untapped Team Advantage TOOLBOX
(coming soon) Download the Wheel of Mistakes template