Practices for Psychological Safety
Jun 8, 2026 · 51 min · 16 segments
Organisational behaviour and innovation expert, Colin Fisher shares groundbreaking ideas on team dynamics, leadership, psychological safety, and how to foster effective collaboration. Discover how…
Helen SandersonHost
Psychological safety is one of those ideas that almost everyone agrees with, and far fewer people know how to actually build.
My book, Psychological Safety in Practice, published by Kogan Page, introduces five foundations and 15 practices that help teams do exactly that.
Each conversation here is with someone whose thinking helps answer that question: How do you actually build psychological safety in everyday work? I talk to authors, researchers, leaders, and practitioners, each helping us get closer to what it actually takes to create psychological safety in practice.
My hope is that every episode leaves you with something you can try tomorrow.
What a joy it was to talk to Colin Fisher about his book, The Collective Edge.
Please listen to this podcast if you're interested in why forming, norming, storming, and performing, Tuckman's model, isn't as relevant now as we thought it was, and why team building isn't the answer to developing great relationships at work.
And hear Colin talk about what's wrong with devil advocacy and the importance of sharing and making explicit norms around communication and how a team works together, and his whole take on leadership being a team effort, not just the role of one person.
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Psychological safety is one of those ideas that almost everyone agrees with, and far fewer people know how to actually build.
My book, Psychological Safety in Practice, published by Kogan Page, introduces five foundations and 15 practices that help teams do exactly that.
Each conversation here is with someone whose thinking helps answer that question: How do you actually build psychological safety in everyday work? I talk to authors, researchers, leaders, and practitioners, each helping us get closer to what it actually takes to create psychological safety in practice.
My hope is that every episode leaves you with something you can try tomorrow.
What a joy it was to talk to Colin Fisher about his book, The Collective Edge.
Please listen to this podcast if you're interested in why forming, norming, storming, and performing, Tuckman's model, isn't as relevant now as we thought it was, and why team building isn't the answer to developing great relationships at work.
And hear Colin talk about what's wrong with devil advocacy and the importance of sharing and making explicit norms around communication and how a team works together, and his whole take on leadership being a team effort, not just the role of one person.