What's New From forums@work

• Interested in launching Forums across your organization? Our forums@work team is now providing complimentary consultations ($1500 value) to inform and support your strategy to include all your employees in Forums. Reach out to community@forumsatwork.com to schedule a session with us!
• We’re actively looking for a professional Virtual Assistant to join our remote team part time. If you or someone you know may be interested, complete the form linked here. Email lianne@forumsatwork.com with questions! 

Try It: Offer Experiences, Not Advice

This is one of our core Forum protocols that builds psychological safety. If someone shares a personal challenge with you, resist the urge to try to solve the problem or give them assurance that it will be ok. Instead, validate their feelings and share any similar experiences you’ve had and how it made you feel. This will help build connection and increase the likelihood your team member may share similar experiences with you in the future.

Insights from forums@work

Researchers at Harvard Business School found that diverse teams with high levels of psychological safety outperformed diverse and non-diverse teams without psychological safety. The study, summarized in a Harvard Business Review article, “Research: To Excel, Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety” defines psychological safety as “a shared belief that team members will not be rejected or embarrassed for speaking up with their ideas, questions, or concerns.” Across the 60 teams they studied, diverse teams with higher reported levels of psychological safety achieved better performance and significantly higher levels of overall well being across their team.