Safe Enough to Soar

Accelerating Trust, Inclusion, & Collaboration in the Workplace

Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781523098071
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Bestselling authors and renowned diversity consultants Fred Miller and Judith Katz bring their long-awaited new book that shows any manager or member of a team how to create safe environments for everyone in their company. Some organizations pay a great deal of attention to ensuring the physical safety of their team members, but do the team members feel safe enough to speak up and raise tough concerns? Share bold and still-in-formation ideas? In this book, bestselling authors and inclusion experts Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz introduce the concept of "interaction safety" and demonstrate how it can help create a work environment of trust, inclusion, and collaboration. Interaction safety encourages reasonable risk-taking and inspires every individual to be brave enough to reach for higher goals and more ambitious possibilities. When interaction safety exists, people know they will not be penalized, ostracized, demoted, made small, discounted, or shunned because of their thoughts, contributions, and conversations.Individuals feel encouraged, empowered, and can achieve more together than they would alone. Miller and Katz provide a four-level model for assessing and increasing the interaction safety in organizations, illustrated by short scenarios taken from real-life situations. They offer concrete actions team members, leaders, and organizations can take to build and maintain a productive, collaborative, and innovative environment in which people do their best work individually and collectively.When interaction safety is a way of life, the energy people used to spend walking on eggshells, trying to get their ideas heard, navigating minefields, or avoiding those they distrust can instead be put towards doing their best work and winning bigger for the organization. With a culture of openness and true collaboration, both the organization and individuals can soar!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Deborah Dagit
• Foreword by Harold L. Yoh III
• Welcome to Safe Enough to Soar
• Introduction Do You Feel Safe Enough to Soar?
• Level One On Your Own
• Level Two Lip Service
• Level Three Islands of Safety
• Level Four Way of Life
• An Invitation Are You Ready?
• Appendix I Seven Steps to Creating Interaction Safety
• Appendix II Assessment
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors