Unlock Your Team's Superpower - It's Not in Your Toolbox, It's in Your Head!
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Covers Google’s Project Aristotle claim that team dynamics beat individual hires, citing analysis of ~180 teams and ~250 attributes and extracting five concrete factors: psychological safety, dependability, structure/clarity, meaning and impact. Offers measurable practices: 10-question surveys on a 1–5 scale (aim for 40–50 score), recurring Sprint retros, Miro boards, a department LinkedIn course with 82% recognition, and a 2x2 zone model (apathy, comfort, anxiety, Learning Zone) with actionable steps to move teams toward learning and higher performance.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Psychological safety intro
- 1:24What psychological safety is
- 2:26Project Aristotle findings
- 5:15Signs of low safety
- 6:38Measuring team safety
- 8:42Safety boosts performance
- 12:10How to increase safety
- 16:22Individual roles in safety
- 18:29Misconceptions about safety
- 20:38Resources and closing
- 21:01Learning in the open
- 22:05Handling morale issues
- 23:47Systematic safety support
- 25:34Assessing safety often
- 28:49Safety in critical contexts
- 32:01Balancing safety and performance
- 34:29Addressing underperformance
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