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Squiggly Careers

#151 Ask The Expert: Psychological Safety with Amy Edmondson

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In the fifth of our six-part Ask the Expert series, Sarah interviews Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organisation. Together Sarah and Amy discuss Psychological Safety, the concept she has pioneered and championed through her research. They chat about what gets in the way of psychological safety and how we can all learn the skills and take positive action to create respected and trusted teams where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the Squiggly Careers Ask the Expert podcast series.

0:07.9

Each week we focus on a skill that we think is particularly relevant at work right now

0:12.4

and interview an expert from around the world about how we can develop these skills for

0:16.9

ourselves. This episode is the final in our first series and I talked to the amazing Amy Edmondson.

0:24.0

She's a Harvard professor whose work really concentrates on something called psychological safety.

0:29.9

We'd love to know whether you'd like to hear a second series and if you would, which skills

0:33.9

and guests would be on your wish list.

0:36.3

You can get in touch with us on Instagram

0:37.9

where we're at Amazing If or just email us Helen and Sarah at Amazingif.com. And if you've

0:43.9

enjoyed the series, a rate, review, subscribe, share would all be brilliant. They make a massive

0:49.4

difference. We read them all and honestly it's the best part of our week.

0:57.7

Our Ask the Expert series is supported by the Bupa UK Foundation.

1:02.1

They're a charity whose purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives.

1:06.5

They fund practical projects which have a positive impact on people's mental wellbeing,

1:09.3

including wellbeing workshops for educators,

1:12.8

working with minds to empower better mental health in young people through online resources and funding community mental well-being projects.

1:17.4

I really hope you enjoy listening to today's episode

1:19.7

and I'll be back at the end to let you know what's coming next

1:22.5

and how you can get in touch with us.

1:25.9

Amy, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. So Amy, perhaps for

1:29.7

our listeners who are new to the idea of psychological safety or have perhaps heard about it,

1:34.9

but maybe don't have lots of knowledge about exactly what it means in a work context,

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