Some takeaways from Frida Mangen talk at the Agile People Sweden Conference 2018.

• People are five times more sensitive to threats than rewards
• No one would like to be perceived as incompetent!
• By way of conformity to social norms, we adapt to fit in with a group. By way of that, we sacrifice our liberty, and we become less capable of observing novel patterns

• Safety junkies emerge due to an obsession with safety in families, societies, and organizations (think helicopter parents, community, or corporation!)
• The result is too much advice on how to look after children, citizen-welfare mania, and piles of policies and processes at various organizations

• Negative implications of strong risk aversion in Sweden: an increase in anxiety, academic fear of starting businesses, and unmotivated working expats
• Stop treating people as children, and allow them to claim responsibilities and make mistakes

• The 70:20:10 model for learning and development tells that experience and mistakes is the source of 70% of people learning
• Organizations, therefore, need to establish grounds for people to learn by themselves

• To HR in charge:
  • You don’t need to have all the answers
  • You don’t need to fear to make mistakes
  • You need to put the oxygen mask on yourself first!

#AgilePeople #AgilePeopleSweden #AgileGothenburg #HR #AgileHR #AgileHRPodden #PeopleUnits #Safety #PsychologicalSafety #SafetyJunkies #HelicopterCommunity #HelicopterCorporation