Psychological safety is the number one indicator of high-performing teams. It’s not just about whether your or your boss’s jokes will land. Psychological safety means you’re not afraid to ask questions, make mistakes, challenge your superiors, and offer solutions. And when you’re in a team where people joke around, you feel safer doing all those things.
“Low levels of psychological safety can create a culture of silence. They can also create a Cassandra culture – an environment in which speaking up is belittled and warnings go unheeded,” Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and the person who coined the term “team psychological safety,” explains.
So, what topics are best left at home and not dragged into the realm of workplace jokes? According to Aseris, the classic taboo topics are gender, race and religion, although the top no-no, in his opinion, would be health. In his opinion, it’s best to think of workplace jokes like advice: for example, we know it’s best not to advise people on parenting, so apply the same logic to jokes.
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