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Brian Lowery

Brian Lowery

Social psychologist

Aug 26, 2026

9:38
Is there advice or best practices you have for people in leadership roles to help maximize the success and the well-being of the people that work with them? What can we do to help them see themselves that way?
9:52
Doing work on self-awareness actually has notable effects on how your employees respond to you and their experience of work.
10:00
So there's evidence, there's research on this, right? So the closer that what your employees see you is the way you see yourself, the safer and the more efficient your employees are, as an example.
10:12
So one is being willing to examine the self and being willing to respond to the environment in such a way that allows for people to know you in a way that allows them to feel a degree of psychological safety.
10:27
And psychological safety here is, at best, predictability, like understands you, and you think I understand you.
10:33
That changes the way we work together.
10:36
And that's not about you're nice.
14:32
Right.
10:35
Is there advice or best practices you have for people in leadership roles to help maximize the success and the well-being of the people that work with them? What can we do to help them see themselves that way?
10:49
Doing work on self-awareness actually has notable effects on how your employees respond to you and their experience of work.
10:57
So there's evidence, there's research on this, right? So the closer that what your employees see you is the way you see yourself, the safer and the more efficient your employees are, as an example.
11:09
So one is being willing to examine the self and being willing to respond to the environment in such a way that allows for people to know you in a way that allows them to feel a degree of psychological safety.
11:24
And psychological safety here is, at best, predictability.
11:27
Like, I understand you, and you think I understand you.
11:30
That changes the way we work together.

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