Psychological safety is often discussed as a team dynamic, a cultural aspiration, or an organizational goal.   And it is all of those things.   But at its core, psychological safety is a leadership behavior, modeled, reinforced, and sustained through how leaders show up, especially when it matters most.   In the first two newsletters in this series, we explored what psychological safety is...

Strategy is rarely the problem.   Most leaders know how to set direction, define priorities, and articulate a vision. Yet even the most thoughtful strategies can stall once they meet the reality of people, pressure, and competing demands.   Execution is where leadership is tested.   In this week's episode of The Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Nicole Jones-Gerbino f...

    Psychological safety is not built in moments of ease. It is revealed, and reinforced, in moments of tension. The week before last, I arrived a little early to a rural critical access hospital in the Midwest for a quarterly leadership development session.   As I walked into the room, the group was mid-discussion, engaged in a spirited conversation about redesigning a longstanding hospital-w...