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When team transparency efforts backfire and create new tensions

Our team committed to having more honest conversations about workload and burnout, but when people actually started being direct about their limits, some team members felt like others weren't pulling their weight. Now people are more guarded than before we started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's attempt to create psychological safety has revealed underlying inequities and resentments that their previous communication patterns were masking.

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