Foster Psychological Safety & Open Communication

This standard mandates the fostering of psychological safety and open communication to ensure engineers feel safe to share ideas, ask questions, and challenge decisions.

1. Foster Psychological Safety & Open Communication:

Engineers should feel safe to share ideas, ask questions, and challenge decisions. This approach ensures a collaborative and innovative environment.

• 1.1 Blameless Culture:
  • 1.1.1 Learning Opportunities:
    • Promote a blameless culture where mistakes are treated as learning opportunities.
    • Automate the tracking of learning opportunities from mistakes.
  • 1.1.2 Open Discussion:
    • Encourage open discussion without fear of retaliation or exclusion.
    • Automate feedback collection on open communication.
• 1.2 Leadership Training:
  • 1.2.1 Active Listening:
    • Train leaders and managers to actively listen and support diverse perspectives.
    • Automate the delivery of leadership training.
  • 1.2.2 Perspective Support:
    • Automate the collection of feedback on leader support for diverse perspectives.
    • Implement leader feedback tracking.

By fostering psychological safety and open communication, organisations can create a collaborative and innovative engineering culture.

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