Amy Edmondson - What is psychological safety?

The Future Talent Learning Podcast

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Episode Summary

What is psychological safety? And how can leaders and managers promote psychological safety in a hybrid working context? To answer these questions, Nathalie Nahai and Ross G are speaking to Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. We discuss:

• Whether you can really have psychological safety in a work environment
• What the shift to hybrid working mean for psychological safety
• The impact of diverse teams on psychological safety.

Episode Timestamps

• Introduction - 00:00-00:56
• Defining and Challenges of Psychological Safety 00:56-13:05
• What does psychological safety mean in virtual environment 13:05-27:02
• Cultivating Psychological Safety 27:02-29:21
• Potential in the Metaverse - 29:21-33:56
• Wrap up – 33:56-37:29
• One thing I learned this week – 37:29-41:17

Additional Information

The book Ross mentioned was Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert D. Putnam.

The Daily Mail article Ross mentioned was ‘Working from home increases your risk of making mistakes’, online at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10283471/Working-home-increases-risk-making-mistakes-scientists-say.html

This article discussed the paper: Künn, S., Seel, C., & Zegners, D. (2021). Cognitive Performance in Remote Work-Evidence from Professional Chess. The Economic Journal.

Find out more about Professor Edmondson at: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451

In ‘One Thing I’ve Learned This Week’, Ross discussed the ‘Mission: ISS’ experience, available on the Oculus VR headset: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1178419975552187

And Nathalie discussed the book From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, by Rob Hopkins.