Year: 2023

  • Practical Actions to Foster Psychological Safety in Your Team


    Article by Minette Norman featured on the Talent Culture website, exploring 5 Leadership Behaviors that Foster Psychological Safety. Why Focus on Psychological Safety? Successful organizations create conditions that help team members perform effectively, solve complex problems in innovative ways, and feel a sense of inclusion and belonging among their colleagues. This requires leaders to foster a high…

  • Leadership Excellence Podcast with Danny Langloss


    All great sports teams have a playbook. They have a playbook for offense, defense, and in football, special teams. These games happen in diverse and complex environments that are changing play by play. Isn’t that the same type of environment leaders face each and every day? What if I told you there was a playbook…

  • The LeaderShift podcast, Karolin and Minette in conversation with Shani Magosky


    As many of you know, psychological safety is a topic I constantly pound the table on. Join us to learn practical implementation tips from experts Minette Norman and Karolin Helbig. In their new book, The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human, the duo became the first authors to provide actionable skills…

  • The Ripple Effect — Conversation with Minette Norman


    Psychological safety is a pre-requisite for high impact leadership. It enables drives innovation, collaboration, productivity, and every other ingredient that leads to real change. Only when employees have the real and perceived freedom to ask questions, challenge the status quo, or share a wild idea will they be able to bring their best (and most…

  • Kirkus Review: A useful, pithy guide to a respectful and welcoming workplace.


    Helbig and Norman declare that it’s time to make the office friendly to dissenting ideas, diverse employees, and human foibles in this leadership primer. The authors, leadership consultants who were formerly a management consultant and a corporate executive, introduce readers to the corporate “psychological safety” movement, which seeks to enable employees to fully participate in…

  • The Leadership Shot with Leila Bulling Towne


    Easy Ways to Use Psychological Safety as a Leader — Conversation with Minette Norman Let’s admit it: the term psychological safety can make you groan or roll your eyes. Leaders know they have to learn about it, but it seems too hard to understand what it is and how to implement it–without reading a long…