Episodes about psychological safety

13 episodes discussing this topic

Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz - Leadermorphosis episode 93: Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc. on psychological safety, equity and inclusion

Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc. on psychological safety, equity and inclusion

In this episode with Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc., we explore the nuanced difference between psychological safety and comfort, revealing how true psychological safety requires embracing discomfort rather than avoiding it. We discuss practical strategies for creating brave spaces where teams can engage in productive disagreement, the critical role of equity in determining who feels safe to speak up, and how subtle leadership behaviors can either build or erode trust.

Ep. 93 28 Feb 2024

Ted Rau on parallels between Relationship Anarchy and self-management

What can the realm of self-management and new ways of working learn from the realm of polyamory, Relationship Anarchy and open relationships? And how can practices in self-organising work teams help us improve our personal relationships? Ted Rau is the co-founder of Sociocracy for All and author of books like 'Who Decides Who Decides?' and 'Many Voices One Song'. In his personal life, he has been in monogamous relationships and, for the last seven years, in open relationships.

Ep. 89 10 May 2023

Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and understanding our patterns in conflicts

Kimberly Loh works in the worlds of conflict resolution, coaching, embodiment and mindfulness. She is also the co-author of ‘Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart.’ We talk about learning to be aware of patterns we have when it comes to engaging with conflict, and Kim shares some ground rules for having ‘Compassionate Conversations’, as well as some really useful self-reflective practices to help us be more conscious of how we show up in conversations, especially ‘difficult’ ones. We also cover topics like power, hierarchies, and why human beings rarely learn how to 'do' conflict well.

Ep. 87 12 Apr 2023

Mette Aagaard - Leadermorphosis episode 80: Mette Aagaard on how a public sector organisation with 8,000 employees is exploring autonomous teams

Mette Aagaard on how a public sector organisation with 8,000 employees is exploring autonomous teams

For the past year, the Municipality of Slagelse in Denmark has been experimenting with autonomous teams. Of the 8,000 employees, some 25-30 units so far have opted in to learn how to make decisions as a team using key principles of Sociocracy. Mette Aagaard, Head of Development, shares what they have been learning and why she thinks it is the responsibility of the public sector to develop societies, and workplaces, that are fit for humans.

Ep. 80 20 Sept 2022

Margaret Heffernan on how to act our way out of the status quo trap

Margaret Heffernan is an author, speaker, business leader and professor. She has written six books and her TED talks have been seen by more than 12 million people. We talk about the ‘status quo trap’ in organisations, myths about whistleblowers, her thoughts on self-management and learning to embrace tough questions. Finally, she shares why her main focus now is the climate crisis.

Ep. 66 12 Oct 2021

Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

Pasteur Byabeza is the lead link of the Student Care Circle at Davis College, a higher learning institution in Rwanda. He is one of the pioneers who has been driving the college’s transition to becoming a self-managed, Holacratic organisation. Though they are early in their journey, taking steps like disbanding the global council and replacing management hierarchies with distributed decision making have already had a huge impact on people’s engagement levels. Pasteur shares what he has learned so far with honesty and contagious passion.

Ep. 65 27 Sept 2021

Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis

Mark Eddleston, new ways of working consultant and coach and cofounder of the Reinventing Work movement, interviews Lisa Gill as they look back on 50 episodes of the Leadermorphosis podcast. Which conversations have changed their thinking? How has the podcast evolved? What is the next phase of the new ways of working movement?

Ep. 51 16 Jun 2020

Devin Carberry, Gerard Almenara & Samir Shariputra Chopra - Leadermorphosis episode 46: Learnlife learners on self-determined, lifelong learning

Learnlife learners on self-determined, lifelong learning

Devin Carberry, Director of Learning Programs, and two learners, 16-year-old Gerard Almenara, and 12-year-old Samir Shariputra Chopra, share their experiences of what it’s like to be part of Learnlife in Barcelona. Learnlife is reinventing education by creating an open ecosystem for a lifelong learning paradigm. People of all ages are supported to become self-directed learners and develop the skills to be responsible community members. This is the future of education and the Learnlife model has much to teach us about how to upgrade our organisations, too.

Ep. 46 26 Mar 2020

Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work

Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the author of “Teaming” and “The Fearless Organisation”. We talk about her journey of researching psychological safety and teaming, as well as the paper she co-wrote about self-managing organisations. Amy shares insightful and practical lessons about leadership, how to be a good team member, and the future of work.

Ep. 45 10 Mar 2020

Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

Michael Y. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD who researches novel and innovative ways of organising. After reading the paper he co-authored with Amy Edmondson on self-managing organisations, I wanted to talk to him to get his academic perspective on this phenomena. He shares what we can learn from self-managing organisations about leadership and how to collaborate in a more decentralised way without sacrificing coordination. We also discuss his research into the two key mechanisms that helped foster positive relational dynamics in a global distributed team.

Ep. 41 15 Dec 2019

Meg Lightheart on leadership, diversity and mindsets for self-management

Meg Lightheart is a leadership and presentation coach and helps organisations become more inclusive and agile. Meg shares what she’s learned from her research, work, and her own personal experiences as a trans woman about topics like leadership, adult development, and diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s an insightful and thoughtful conversation full of humour and heart.

Ep. 38 30 Sept 2019

Paul Taylor from Bromford Labs on rethinking failure in your organisation

Paul Taylor, as a ‘Lab Coach’ at social enterprise Bromford, is on a mission to change how organisations perceive failure. Inspired by radical, self-management pioneers like healthcare company Buurtzorg, he shares some of the working-out-loud experiments he’s been running to innovate product and service development and reinvent management.

Ep. 8 18 Sept 2017

Perry Timms from PTHR on reinventing HR and work

My guest this episode is Perry Timms, author of the book "Transformational HR" and a practitioner who has spent the last twenty years in technology, organisational change and HR. He is also a global and TEDx speaker on the future of work, and a WorldBlu® certified Freedom at Work Consultant and Coach, helping organisations work in more liberated, democratic ways. We talk about the future of HR and how the profession must evolve to meet the paradigm shift in leadership, exploring the awareness gap amongst HR practitioners and the need for curiosity, networking and creativity skills.

Ep. 1 9 May 2017