The Science of Personality Podcast
Balancing Team Engagement and Psychological Safety
June 2, 202657 min · 9,136 words
Show notes
In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake are joined by Melvyn Payne, Commercial Director at Advanced People Strategies, one of Hogan’s fabulous distributors in the UK, to talk about finding the right balance between team engagement and psychological safety. More specifically, we look at the role personality plays through the lens of Hogan data. This is something Melvyn and his team at APS have made a priority recently as they continue to deliver best-in-class team solutions for their vast client portfolio.
Highlighted moments
somebody who's very ambitious um sometimes one of the things i see with senior teams is very ambitious people that that don't want to play and what i mean by that is we they're asked to do an exercise um which they don't see as relevant uh it doesn't perhaps have the same face validity um but often when i talk to people like that behind the scenes after it's more about i've never done that before i didn't see the relevance of it but equally i didn't want to take part unless i can do it well
“the leader showed a great amount of vulnerability and said look i've seen this feedback about me it's come out in more than one way um so i want everybody to to know it's okay to challenge me on things i want you to be making the decisions you come up with them i'm perfectly fine with that um at the end of that meeting as the laptop lids went down people started putting their jackets on somebody took a phone call and there was a problem um given what everybody had talked about and the new ground rules they'd set uh this individual raised the problem with the leader of the team who then turned around and said don't ever say that to me again i've told you before don't do that”
“she's quite open to it she likes people to challenge her she likes the detail um but again because she comes across as a bit hard to please a bit perfectionistic and a bit direct um it's creating an environment where where people don't feel comfortable doing that”
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