Hi, how are you, thank you for reading the Coaching Letter, and thank you to those of you who responded to the last CL, on street data. This letter is about psychological safety, which is the condition of knowing that your thoughts and ideas are welcome, won't be judged or dismissed, and that you will be given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to have positive intent. I talk to a lot of educators who do not believe that they are free to share their thinking - that they are at some risk, somewhere along the continuum of ignored, dismissed, seen as resistant or difficult, or even of losing their job. My hunch is that in almost all cases, their supervisors would be surprised and shocked that these people feel this way.
Coaching Letter #158
Coaching Letter #158
Coaching Letter #158
Hi, how are you, thank you for reading the Coaching Letter, and thank you to those of you who responded to the last CL, on street data. This letter is about psychological safety, which is the condition of knowing that your thoughts and ideas are welcome, won't be judged or dismissed, and that you will be given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to have positive intent. I talk to a lot of educators who do not believe that they are free to share their thinking - that they are at some risk, somewhere along the continuum of ignored, dismissed, seen as resistant or difficult, or even of losing their job. My hunch is that in almost all cases, their supervisors would be surprised and shocked that these people feel this way.