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Psychological safety training can produce the right behaviours and raise the survey scores, but honest conversations still don’t happen in the meeting room.
The results are performative, not real.
The missing piece? A relational shift that Peter Senge called “colleagueship”, seeing each other as friends in a mutual quest, not adversaries to manage.
Join Master Certified Coach Neil Bierbaum to discover the ontological distinction that separates teams who simply perform the behaviours from teams who actually bond together. It will transform your performance and culture investments.
Amy Edmondson’s psychological safety research is rigorous and important. Teams where people feel safe to speak up genuinely do perform better. The evidence is clear.
So why, after the training, after the culture initiatives, after the surveys show improvement, are the real conversations still happening in the parking lot instead of the meeting room?
Peter Senge called the missing piece “colleagueship”—seeing each other as friends in a mutual quest, not adversaries to manage. Forgiving shortcomings. Committing not to hold things against each other.
This isn’t a behaviour you can train. It’s a stance you choose. Psychological safety is defensive, reducing risk. Colleagueship is generative, transforming relationship.
In this webinar, Master Certified Coach Neil Bierbaum (20 years, 10,000+ hours) explores why the distinction between psychological safety and colleagueship explains the gap between your survey scores and your meeting room reality.
NEIL BIERBAUM COACHING is a boutique coaching solutions consultancy offering leader and team performance programs and one-on-one executive coaching. NBC is committed to building shared stakeholder value through long-term engagements with people (and organisations) who see work as an opportunity for growth and who seek to contribute to the world more than they extract from it. The NBC philosophy is to coach the whole person so that all spheres of their life may benefit and to produce real results that last.
