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Episode 75 - Psychological safety: how are teams doing?

Show Notes

Lots of teams are struggling when it comes to implementing psychological safety – particularly in areas like straight-talking, listening to each other, and challenger safety. Building psychological safety requires open and honest communication, a willingness to embrace conflict, and a shared understanding of how the team works together. Getting the right balance of healthy conflict and “just being nice” is core to building a safe team. Joining Dan and Pia this week is Squadify business analyst Juliet Hammond, who breaks down the latest figures from Squadify’s data on team performance.

Takeaways from Dan and Pia


Three reasons to listen

  • To gain insights into the concept of psychological safety and how it impacts team performance.
  • To learn about the different levels of psychological safety and how they contribute to team dynamics.
  • To understand the importance of challenging and straight-talking within a psychologically safe team environment.

Episode highlights

  • [00:04:14] What is psychological safety?
  • [00:09:37] What Squadify measures
  • [00:11:37] What teams are recognising
  • [00:17:55] 44% of people experiencing stress
  • [00:22:12] A leader's role in fostering psychological safety
  • [00:28:49] Takeaways from Dan and Pia

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Meet the guests

Juliet is the Business Analyst for Squadify – her core role is to take the vision of the product from the founders and work with the development team to make it happen. She also leads our research and data analytics activities and is driven to find insights for teams to help them work better together. In her spare time Juliet loves to go for long runs on the beautiful Yorkshire moors.