Alvin Pilobello

Ahh the good ol' "it's the way we've always done it"... There's nothing that will shut down good quality thinking like a blast from the past. Psychological safety isn't black and white, on or off. Group situations, particularly at work, are filled with comments we aren't completely sure how to interpret. We call these "Crouching tigers" Why? Because these are the kinds of phrases that are in the grey zone. They aren't all bad but they definitely shut down the best version of the people we have around us. You hired smart people and are asking them to do a job - and while they are doing that they can be on the lookout for problems, solutions, new ways of doing things... Or they can just do it the way it's always been done... we perceive this as a signal to stop thinking and looking for opportunity. And we do just that. If it's going to be hard to change something Try this: "Ok - I'm not sure how that might work out. We need a way to test it safely and see if it's helpful" If it's an easy thing to change - "Sure! let's see if it's a better way - maybe it can help everyone!" #psychologicalsafety #crouchingtiger #workplace #workplacescenario #comic #innovation

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丢脸: To those who understand, these words hit deeply. It's something that most have felt at some point in their lives. It translates to "lose face," where "face" represents reputation, honour, and influences how we are perceived by our family and society. The maintenance of "face" is crucial for social survival. In Asian culture, one person's actions reflect on their entire family's "face". It comes with many expectations, immense pressure, and significant repercussions. To these expectations, everyone responds differently - some rebel, others try to please. But all are left with lingering feelings of shame, guilt, resentment, and the sense that they are not good enough. Many become adults who lose their sense of autonomy, a unique voice, and don't feel comfortable in their own skin. It doesn't have to remain this way. And it has become an issue I feel extremely passionate about in helping others navigate. ----- 👇🏻Want to dive deeper? Check out my latest post to read further 👇🏻 ✍🏻 If you’d like to stay updated with similar content, please subscribe to my newsletter.

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I've spoken about my 2021 mental health crisis openly before, in corporate and public spaces, but perhaps not this explicitly. In large part, its because I needed a lot of time and space to process what I experienced and why. I needed to work through new and unfamiliar feelings of shame and stigma--feelings I didn't really experience when talking about my 20 years of managing anxiety and depression. But I knew the risks of saying the words "my psychotic break" out loud and in writing would be more than worth it if I could turn what was a really scary and traumatic experience for me and my family into something really helpful and hopeful for others. And that's why I chose to talk about it in this video about the "Get the Feed You Need Workshop"--a group coaching experience I'm offering starting May 8. My exposure to highly-emotional, polarizing content in social and news media around the last election cycle (and for years before that) was one of the major contributing factors in my psychotic break. Not the only one, of course, but big enough that my doctors insisted I get off social media and news apps, entirely. Which I did for over a year. When I returned to social media, I did so slowly ,mindfully, intentionally, and by applying a lot of expert guidance, including my own professional knowledge around AI-driven content, to ensure I wouldn't put my health and well-being at risk again. But you don't need to have a break-down to have a break-through. I passionately believe we have a unique and exciting opportunity at this moment to learn how to better co-create with AI, with digital tech--for our own best interest and well-being, and for the good of all humans. We can't passively trust corporations and government to do it for us, right now. Our well-being is not their priority. But if it's ours, we will need to know what digital well-being looks and feels like, before we can stand for the regulations and legislation that will make it real for all. And I know from my own personal experience, it is possible. Never perfect. Never one and done. But with greater know-how, tools and support (which I'll be sharing and curating with participants during and after the workshop), we can do, so much better. Our digital habits and experiences are a growing part of our personal and collective reality, and I believe we have the imagination, ingenuity and creativity to shape that reality for the good of all of us--if we pause and make it a priority. If you're getting what I'm throwing down, and want to be part of the change, please go to https://lnkd.in/gvNMuPTq

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