"Micromanagement is fundamentally incompatible with psychological safety. And without psychological safety, teams don’t innovate, learn from their mistakes, or grow in ability."

"How a toxic #management style impacts team #health": https://sites.google.com/schrag.ca/consulting/home/micromanagement-and-psychological-safety by @jvschrag #microManagement #psychologicalSafety #personalSafety #safety #workPlace #workCulture #mentalHealth #quotes

John Schrag - trainer, coach & facilitator - Micromanagement and Psychological Safety

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What you see | everything changes

Attending to your own attention.

everything changes
All communication is lossy | everything changes

Signal loss is inevitable, but it isn’t all bad.

everything changes

You cannot improve when scared

"The more primitive parts of the brain take over the activity of the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s “control centre”, when we’re in a state of fear.
"This means planning, making sound decisions and using our existing knowledge becomes very difficult if we feel threatened or afraid."

Deborah Pino Pasternak: https://theconversation.com/how-effective-is-fear-as-a-teaching-tool-how-and-what-do-we-learn-when-we-are-scared-213540

#mistakes #fault #control #team #teamWork #neuroscience #psychology #children #learning #fear #research #stress #brain #school #trauma

How effective is fear as a teaching tool? How and what do we learn when we are scared?

In response to threats, we learn to avoid challenge and comply with external rules (instead of wondering how systems can be improved). We protect our feelings and restrict our thoughts to what’s safe.

The Conversation

"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."
— John Holt

#mistakes #teamWork #psychology #children #learning #fear #dev #programming #school #unschooling #learn #class #vibeCoding

Collective adaptive goes virtuous circle:
- sharing information,
- creating opportunities for people to share the "messy details" of their experience,
- inquiring into team member’s ways "to expand what goes well",
- drawing from the capacity across the work collective.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/adapt-surprises-software-reliant-businesses/

#collectives #teamWork #workCulture #facilitation #management #IT #DevOps #resilience #engineering #fallBack #recovery #psychologicalSafety #personalSafety #safety #feedback #joy #curiosity

Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses

This article explores understanding what makes incidents so rare (when and how they do not happen) and so minor (over how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.

InfoQ
@eric Absolutely; fear dysregulates us into either hypo- or hyperarousal, narrowing our window of tolerance, launching us into any of the 4Fs: Fight, flight, freeze or fawn, none of which are conducive to self-reflection, perception or integration, much less problem solving!
@silverhuang @eric Had not heard of a fourth "F" previous to this post!
@oisin @eric I learned the 4Fs from Pete Walker's book on complex trauma: https://pete-walker.com/fourFs_TraumaTypologyComplexPTSD.htm
Pete Walker, M.A. Psychotherapy

Pete Walker M.A., MFT Therapy for and recovery from childhood trauma, abuse and/or neglect, in the East Bay

Thank you @silverhuang for the link! I am looking it up!

@oisin
Unfortunately "fawning" is a thing and is not much handled (maybe because nobody is proud).

What is a bit known is “please and appease”, but it would assume some agency.
#Fawning is an offer of submission triggered by the recall of a past trauma.
To attempt safety, you detach from yourself and emotionally connect to your agressor.

If you've ever apologized to someone who has hurt you, you might have fawned.

@joie @silverhuang Yep am reading that, can see how it works.

"It is important to note that you cannot process trauma if you are still in an unsafe, traumatic environment. You need to establish physical safety to be able to work through the emotional impact. Once you are safe, you can start healing by seeking professional support, practicing self-compassion, and prioritizing your well-being."
https://www.choosingtherapy.com/fawning/

#fawning #trauma #healing #recovery #personalSafety #safety #selfCare #emotions #peace

Fawning Trauma Response: Why It Happens & How to Stop

Fawning is a trauma response where a person finds themselves responding to someone they perceive as dangerous by engaging in people-pleasing and submissive behaviors.1 This response is an attempt to "keep the peace" and appease the person who may be causing harm in order to reduce the intensity or frequency of that harm. Common

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@eric @jvschrag This is neoliberal government & "leadership"
It is, given the chance, micromanagement. I'm being polite its actually control.
Fear has always been a political tool of control, thus risk averse mindset.