Psychological Safety with Dr. Amy Edmondson

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What makes for a great team – whether personal or professional – and how can organizations and individuals create a more psychologically healthy environment? Many of us have been fortunate enough to be on a really great team…and most all of us have probably been on a bad one. So, what makes for a great team – whether personal or professional – and is it as simple as just being good at your job, or is there more to it than that? It turns out one of the key factors is called psychological safety, which we'll be learning about today with the help of a world-class expert. About our Guest: Dr. Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, where she studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning. She’s the author of six books, including her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 2:00: What is psychological safety? 7:15: How does psychological safety relate to personality? 11:45: Stress and high performance. 14:00: Me vs. We 17:30: Psychological safety vs. psychological abuse. 22:00: Creating a safe group environment. 27:00: Accepting responsibility. 31:30: Psychological safety in virtual environments. 34:00: Giving good feedback. 37:30: Just one thing. 41:30: A message to your younger self. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. Thanks for taking the time to join us today. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
0:10.0	From keeping our personal relationships happy and healthy to dealing with group projects at school,
0:15.0	to all kinds of interactions in the workplace, we're all managers to varying degrees.
0:20.0	And we all participate in teams, large and small, most days. Many of us have been fortunate
0:26.6	enough to be on a really great team. And most of us have probably been on a bad one. So what makes for a great team, whether personal or
0:35.2	professional, and is it just as simple as being good at your job or is there more to it than that?
0:40.4	To help us answer that question, I'm joined as usual by Dr Rick Hansen. And today we're
0:45.6	welcoming a very special guest to the show, one of the world's leading scholars on what helps
0:50.0	organizations learn and thrive, Dr Amy Edmondson.
0:54.3	Amy is the Navartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School,
0:58.6	where she studies teeming, psychological safety, and organizational learning.
1:03.0	She's the author of six books, including her most recent book,
1:07.0	The Fearless Organization,
1:08.0	Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and growth.
1:13.0	So, Professor, thanks so much for taking the time
1:14.9	to join us today.
1:15.7	How are you doing?
1:17.0	You're very welcome, and I'm doing
1:19.3	as well as can be under the circumstances,
1:21.9	which is pretty well.'m one of the lucky ones.
1:26.4	Yeah it's an increasingly loaded question these days back when we were doing these
1:30.7	conversations before the whole pandemic started.
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