In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to psychological safety expert Stephan Wiedner. Stephan’s work focusses on developing sustainable high performance leaders, teams and organisations. He is cofounder of Noomii.com, Skillsetter.com and most recently Zarango.com with a published mission to ‘unleash the collective potential of people with the power of psychological safety’.

Here's a link to the free Psychological Safety Assessment mentioned by Stephan during this episode: https://zarango.com/freepsi/

0.00 Introduction
04.08 Can you give us a working definition of Psychological Safety?
05.08 In our experience, when leaders first encounter that, some may feel that making people feel ok isn’t always ok because there can be consequences. What’s your take on that?
06.34 So in your experience, what happens when leaders make the mistake of being incredibly nice but don’t hold teams to account to deliver?
07.16 Why psychological safety for you? What got you into this topic?
09.03 What is your assessment process?
10.30 So happens in those situations typically?
12.18 What does psychological safety deliver in terms of performance?
14.37 Amy Edmondson talks about creating the conditions so we’re able to have those conversations without the fear, so the desire outweighs the risk. Can we talk about the feeling of vulnerability that’s necessary in order to be able to do that?
17.51 How do you raise an honest level of awareness in the leader who is well intentioned but may be just not getting it right?
18.52 Can you tell us what the origins of ‘deliberate practice’ are and how it’s been applied in different fields?
21.59 Let’s talk about conflict. How do leaders with high safety and accountability teams tend to mitigate conflict or even encourage healthy conflict when appropriate?
24.24 How do you start to get leaders to recognise their part in perpetuating a culture where these things can’t really be aired?
27.55 What kind of things do you see when psychological safety starts to take root in an organisation?
29.38 What is the importance of safety combined with accountability in terms of unleashing exponential creativity?
33.33 How do you see psychological safety playing out across different generations?
38.07 Where do you think this field is going and what’s next in your work?
43.10 In your analysis, do you see any trends in terms of things that are changing in people’s reactions to different types of situations? Are some situations becoming more or less problematic, how are we evolving?
46.08 What deliberate practices are you engaging with at the moment?
48.15 How can our audience get in touch with you?

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