Spoke & Wheel

Spoke & Wheel is a culture design company helping organizations build cultures of physical, emotional, and psychological safety. Incorporating principles of neuroscience, positive psychology, and relationship research, Spoke & Wheel designs customized and compassionate cultural solutions that empower people to think, collaborate, and innovate.

A Culture of Safety: Building Work Environments Where People Can Think, Collaborate, and Innovate

If you’re a human being that has ever felt afraid or undervalued at work, if you’re a business leader charged with the growth, performance, and wellbeing of a team, you’ll feel your heart echoed in A Culture of Safety. In this book, you’ll learn about the neurobiological foundations for safe workplace cultures, the number one skill leaders must have in order to create a culture of safety, and actionable practices to start increasing safety in your organization.

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Building a Culture of Psychological Safety

Building a culture of psychological safety reduces fear, celebrates failures, and provides a safe space for your teams to communicate. In this Agile in Action podcast, Bill Raymond speaks with Alla Weinberg, where they share the importance of physical, emotional, and psychological safety in the workplace.

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Psychological Safety is Not a Buzzword but a Relational Practice

Hosted by Jim Kalbach (Chief Evangelist at Mural), this show broadcast features Alla Weinberg facilitating a collaborative visual-thinking game that increases psychological safety using MURAL. The show focuses on both INNER and OUTER collaboration tools to develop and practice Collaborative Intelligence (CI) over time.

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The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety — the shared belief that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and collaboration — just the types of behavior that lead to successful products and services.

Creating psychological safety in a workplace – although at times a challenge – can be done. This interactive talk will present the key action steps that DesignOps professionals can immediately take to boost psychological safety in their design teams and create psychological safety between cross-functional teams.

The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety — the shared belief that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and collaboration — just the types of behavior that lead to successful products and services.

Creating psychological safety in a workplace – although at times a challenge – can be done. This interactive talk will present the key action steps that DesignOps professionals can immediately take to boost psychological safety in their design teams and create psychological safety between cross-functional teams.