Creating Psychological Safety with Keara Mascareñaz Transformative Principal 303

Nov 3, 2019

Keara Mascareñaz Managing Partner, Organizational Design at Education Elements. She helps schools and districts focuses build and scale a culture of innovation through leadership development, team habits, and human-centered organizational design.

• Learning, meeting, projects
• How do you create the environment of psychological safety?
• the team that is more effective would be making less mistakes.
• more comfort to talk about mistakes
• Amy Edmondson TED talk
• I didn’t say “I don’t know what I’m doing!“
• It can feel high stakes, even though it is not.
• Two types of leaders: one best ideas should strive - leaders are smarter and make fewer mistakes.
• Interrogating archetypes.
• Two books: Multipliers with Liz Wiseman As soon as a speaker starts speaking, everyone stops talking.
• Here’s my interview with Liz Wiseman.
• Talking about Failure is crucial for Growth
• Noticing it is the first step to change.
• It’s hard to make big shifts.
• What foundation have I laid and signal have I given to my team about this?
• “I’ve had good ideas before that haven’t worked out!”
• So much deference made to people in power and authority.
• Habit of talking about mistakes.
• The more people in power can model talking about mistakes the more you can model and give more power to your people.
• How to be a transformative principal? Next time you’re in front of your staff think about 1. Learning challenge, vulnerability, asking for advice.