When Covid-19 was recognized as an emerging public health crisis earlier this year, tens of thousands of employees were sent home from offices around the world to start working from home for the foreseeable future. It may take years before we understand the full impact of this abrupt shift to virtual work on people and companies, but it wasn’t long before many started to wonder about the impact of virtual meetings on psychological safety — people feeling they can raise questions, concerns, and ideas without fear of personal repercussion.
How to Foster Psychological Safety in Virtual Meetings
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August 25, 2020
Summary.
Working from home due to the pandemic, tens of thousands of people of the world are now communicating with each other in virtual meetings. But such communication can undermine psychological safety, making people more reluctant to raise questions or concerns or share their ideas. This article offers tips for how team leaders can use the functions on online platforms to overcome this barrier and make virtual meetings more productive.
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