# psychological safety
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20:29Modelling Psychological SafetyTom Emery: I mean, I think with psychological safety, psychological safety is built through disagreeing and disagreeing well and building trust. The other model that we use when we talk about psychological safety in teamEP 321 · 23 Jul 2026·interview· 20:29–29:5420:40Psychological safety: using assessments for development, not judgementJuliette Alban-Metcalfe: It wouldn't necessarily be a comfortable experience for a lot of people. I think people, what we find, we've been doing this for 25 years in all different countries, all around the world, in all EP 279 · 26 Feb 2026·interview· 20:40–25:3125:51Psychological safety and learning moments vs. blameGarry Ridge: It can Garry Ridge: I am Al Elliott: Go and listen to Lunch wherever you get your podcastsEP 251 · 20 Nov 2025·interview· 25:51–32:564:50The Toyota stop-cord story: psychological safety in actionAl Elliott: We were talking to a guy called Andrew Palmer, who's from The Economist, um, yesterday or day before, interviewing him for our podcast. And, um, he runs his own podcast. It's all getting very meta now, uh, caEP 230 · 9 Sept 2025·other· 4:50–7:2140:06Psychological safety, intentional questions, and being quiet not loudAl Elliott: Yeah Leanne Elliott: That word of the moment psychological safety that people will actually feel that they're able to authentically open up. So it can't just be, yeah, I'm going to call you every Tuesday for EP 224 · 19 Aug 2025·other· 40:06–47:1834:07Trust, Risk, and Psychological SafetyLeanne Elliott: Construction is a really interesting industry, I think, to look at psychological safety, both in terms of the impact potentially on our physical safety and on our mental health. You know, we spoke to KateEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 34:07–36:4836:48EHS and Psychological Safety in High-Risk IndustriesLeanne Elliott: As per my previous podcast episode, I have mentioned the importance of data before Al Elliott: Yes, absolutely. So you know what Leanne thinks about data. Some organisations think, oh well, that's great, EP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 36:48–40:4756:27Google's 20% time — culture in actionLeanne Elliott: Again, I think we're talking here about psychological safety, around making sure that workloads actually facilitate time to innovate and create. Um, you can't just say, oh, we have a culture of innovationEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 56:27–57:1222:47The impact on team dynamics and psychological safetyAl Elliott: Makes sense, because if you— if everyone's got a voice and it's okay to say your opinion, then you might be more inclined just to be a little bit more unethical, um, because You know, everyone's got your backEP 31 · 22 Mar 2023·other· 22:47–27:3559:05Psychological safety and setting ground rulesLeanne Elliott: What I liked about Fidel's point here is he's kind of making the point that culture and policy require each other. And equally, if there's some kind of disparity or difference between how, how we're, you EP 31 · 22 Mar 2023·other· 59:05–62:1410:40The clinical definition of psychological safety (from Amy Edmondson)Leanne Elliott: So, as I mentioned earlier, psychological safety is a belief held by employees in engaging and supportive workplace culture. But what is it exactly? And Stephan's actually got a really good clinical definEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 10:40–14:1814:18Why psychological safety drives high performanceStephan Wiedner: You need to pay attention to it because, um, the main reason is that it's linked to high performance. So I mentioned that earlier, Google did a big study. Google, of course, they're about as data-driven EP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 14:18–17:0217:02Google's Project AristotleLeanne Elliott: Absolutely. And if you're still not clear on how psychological safety can impact behavior and in turn organizational outcomes, Stephan has a great example Stephan Wiedner: I'm a nurse, and I see on the chEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 17:02–19:0119:53Is House a case study in psychological safety?Al Elliott: So I have a question, Leanne. This has just fired something off in my head. Do you think, you know, in House, the, the Hugh Laurie document— not documentary Leanne Elliott: Jesus. It's not a documentary Al ElEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 19:53–23:4631:17Psychological safety is a team-based constructStephan Wiedner: Um, psychological safety is a team-based construct, and so you're gonna have pockets where psychological safety is gonna be high and pockets where psychological safety is gonna be low and everything in bEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 31:17–58:17
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