# team dynamics
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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· 20:29–29:543:55What Is a Messy Moment and Why Teams Hide from Healthy ConflictSean O'Shea: Yeah. So, the way that we measure this, we've got 2 companies that, that we run to, to explore this. One is Craft Your Culture, which is around leadership development and the role of leaders. We've been doinEP 309 · 11 Jun 2026·interview· 3:55–7:3737:27Workplace Surgery: Hiring people who think like you vs challenge youLeanne Elliott: We do, we have Harry back this week. We continue understandably to get a fair few questions about occupational health because as an occupational psychologist, there's an assumption that these 2 worlds colEP 254 · 2 Dec 2025·workplace surgery· 37:27–43:1235:49Turning around a passive-aggressive teamLeanne Elliott: I've been in meetings and there's somebody who is just very negative or very passive-aggressive, and no matter how the person leading it has tried to reset it, this person just digs in. What do you do in EP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 35:49–40:3813:35How important is it that your team likes you?Al Elliott: How important is it that your team likes you as a person? Amy Bouque: Yeah, maybe a do-over card. I wouldn't use the like, maybe it's the respect, maybe it's the admire, or probably more than like, right? BecEP 233 · 18 Sept 2025·interview· 13:35–16:2012:03Flipping the lens: what managers need from their teamsAl Elliott: Could we Flip the earlier conversation that we had about a manager managing a large number of people on their team to being a member of a team that might be 15 or 20 people. I think for the individual contribEP 230 · 9 Sept 2025·other· 12:03–13:5848:02Workplace Surgery — can DISC fix team tensions?Al Elliott: Brilliant. Okay, so question number 3, can DiSC, D-I-S-C, actually help with team tensions, or is there something better? Leanne Elliott: There's something better. Was there more? Al Elliott: There is more. NEP 214 · 15 Jul 2025·workplace surgery· 48:02–55:2513:35Reading Your Team's Nonverbal CuesRoit Feldenkreis: Oh, for sure, because I think before things actually happen, before people leave, before people tell you that they are having a hard time, you can see that in their body language before anything else. SEP 209 · 26 Jun 2025·interview· 13:35–14:5014:37Story 3: What great teams actually do differentlyLeanne Elliott: I saw a study this week. It's a study from 20— is it '22 or '24? Maybe 2022. But it was new to me and I was very, very excited by the results. A study of 1 million employees found that one thing that greaEP 190 · 22 Apr 2025·news roundup· 14:37–22:4035:19Workplace Surgery: Personality tests ruining teamsAl Elliott: Okay. Right. This is, this is, this, this is a good one. HR is obsessed with personality tests and now everyone is a colour. Oh, Leanne, you are gonna get into this one. Recently, our new Chief People OfficerEP 182 · 25 Mar 2025·workplace surgery· 35:19–43:3442:10Workplace Surgery #3: The secret Slack channelAl Elliott: Question number 3, the secret Slack channel Leanne Elliott: Oh yes, let's see Al Elliott: YesEP 180 · 18 Mar 2025·workplace surgery· 42:10–47:1640:13Workplace Surgery: team division post-restructureAl Elliott: Okay, so the second letter we've got, again email, is— says, says this: Our software company recently went through a restructure where we merged with our legacy systems team who've been with us 5 and a half yEP 154 · 17 Dec 2024·workplace surgery· 40:13–44:3225:34The psychology of group dynamicsLeanne Elliott: We are asked about this quite a lot, aren't we? And I think a useful starting point is the psychology of groups. So, if we start right at the beginning, evolution. Forming groups simply allowed humans to EP 104 · 6 Jun 2024·interview· 25:34–28:299:01The hot air balloon analogy — Al and Leanne on their own dynamicChris Savage: Yeah Leanne Elliott: I mean, in our, in our RX7 blueprint, which is all about the foundation, 7 foundations of amazing workplace cultures, one of those, and one of the most important of those, is role. UndeEP 68 · 8 Dec 2023·interview· 9:01–9:2821:24Leadership Lessons from the PitchAl Elliott: Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. So I asked Bernard a little bit more about the psychology behind both athletes and entrepreneurs Bernard Brogan: I think probably high-performance sport gives you— you EP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 21:24–23:5330:04Credit, Glory, and the Team DynamicBernard Brogan: We all know in the tech world there's hero engineers, there's obviously this big ego CEOs, etc. So there's a lot to some of that that maybe take, take the credit or take the limelight. A lot in the last wEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 30:04–34:0722:47The 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· 22:47–27:3531:17Psychological 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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