Mad River Behavioral Health

Increasing psychological safety in the workplace is crucial for a healthy and productive environment. It's all about creating a space where people feel comfortable being themselves, speaking up, taking risks, and even making mistakes without fear of negative repercussions. Here's a breakdown of how to cultivate greater psychological safety: 1. Foster Open Communication and Active Listening: ·       Encourage dialogue: Make it clear that all voices are welcome and valued. Regularly solicit input and feedback from team members at all levels. ·       Practice active listening: Pay attention not just to the words being said, but also to the nonverbal cues. Show genuine interest in understanding different perspectives. ·       Ask clarifying questions: Ensure you understand what others are saying and encourage them to elaborate without judgment. ·       Create dedicated spaces for sharing: Imp...

Unlocking the Future: The Power of Creative Innovation In today's rapidly evolving world, the ability to innovate creatively is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. It's the driving force behind progress, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and shaping the future we inhabit. What is Creative Innovation? Creative innovation isn't just about coming up with new ideas. It's about:  * Identifying unmet needs: Recognizing problems or gaps in the market that haven't been addressed.  * Generating novel solutions: Developing unique and unconventional approaches to those challenges.  * Implementing those solutions: Bringing the ideas to life through action and execution. Why is Creative Innovation Important?  * Economic Growth: Innovation fuels economic growth by creating new industries, products, and jobs.  * Competitive Advantage: Companies that embrace innovation gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.  * Social Progress: Innovative solutions can address...

  The Glorious Vision Senior  managers often have a beautiful vision … that becomes degraded, distorted, muddled, mangled, and tangled up as it passes down through the human layers toward the bottom of the organizational structure, where the workers who really need it most in order to make it happen never see it in all its glorious clarity.  The senior managers have to manage the transmission of  the vision personally. It’s not a “fire and forget it” issue.  In order to make it happen, it has to be actively kept out in front, at the top of the weekly conversation all the time.  It will need to be de-muddled, de-mangled, and de-tangled on a regular basis. Even small deviations will need to be actively managed.  It’s not that the middle tier is populated by bad people, just that it is populated by human people who are largely poorly trained and endowed with regular human flaws, stressors, shortcomings, etc.  ~ The middle tier needs its morale to be ...

  I use to work inside this horribly depressed, angry, agitated company.  Ironically, it was a mental health facility.  *** I’ve never seen so many employees return from meetings with a particularly abusive senior manager crying. This is super duper HR fail. It is a super senior management team fail. It is a super leadership fail. And, it is a super big board of directors fail. But it was not just this one toxic senior manager.  It was the organization as a whole. I’ve never seen so much inter-personnel animosity. I’ve never seen so much wide-spread demoralization anywhere, at any company I’ve ever worked at over my decades of work experience.  This was quite simply the worst place I have ever worked.  The senior manager, although super abusive and toxic, wasn’t responsible for the wide-spread demoralization and hostility throughout the company. He certainly was injecting a ton more yuck into the company, but he didn’t touch all of its moving parts. There w...