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Psych Safety: The Tradeoffs of Staying Silent | Curious Now 37

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Show Notes

Where’s the line between requests and boundaries that we’re comfortable making, and ones that seem impossible to set? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822

How do we recognize the trade-offs we are called to make when we are considering setting a boundary about what we will and won’t do? The reason we think about this in the context of psychological safety is that losing track of these boundaries can create an underlying emotional volatility—where we go along to get along until it’s too late and then bubble over or explode.

In duos, the consequence to psych safety is not just a loss of our own feelings of safety, but the fact that our teammates can’t trust us to tell them when there’s a problem, which degrades their safety as well.

Workout of the Week: Notice and name tradeoffs that are coming up for you—when setting a boundary, granting a request, or making a compromise.

Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/ #healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #climbing

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