FULL INTERVIEW - The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety with Dr. Timothy Clark
Channel: Mark Botros
Date: 2020-09-20

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety - An Interview with Dr. Timothy Clark The LIFE WORKS Podcast (Hosted by Mark Botros)


Dr. Timothy Clark is the Founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, a leadership consulting and training organization headquartered near Salt Lake City, Utah. He is an international authority in the fields of senior executive development, strategy acceleration, and organizational change. Dr. Clark earned a triple degree, as an All-American football player at Brigham Young University, he completed his doctorate in social science at Oxford, and was both a Fulbright and British Research Scholar. Dr. Clark is the author of five books on leadership, including his newest release, "The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation."


In this AMAZING interview we cover the following:

01:11 Psychological Safety
02:15 The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
05:11 Where The 4 Stages came from 
06:00 The 4 Stages, Maslow, and other Needs-Based Psychological Models
07:25 Corporate Cautionary Tales - Companies that died…and why
08:25 How leaders can kill an organization
09:45 “The Fear Button” and what it does to an organization
10:45 "The Lubricating Oil of Collaboration”, The key to remaining competitive
11:14 Psychological Safety at scale and How to change culture in an organization
14:59 A positive example of superb corporate culture
16:22 “Project Aristotle” - What Google learned by studying 180 of their teams for 2 years
19:42 The best leaders in the world do this…
21:28 "Bowling lanes and Gutters”
23:00 The normalization of exploitation
24:09 How Millenials are transforming the workplace
25:06 The two forces driving the need for Psychological Safety
26:56 The limitations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts
28:47 The perfect leader
35:58 The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety at home in the family
36:41 The goal of Parenthood
38:46 What The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety looks like in the family
39:35 Every 26 seconds…
40:12 The two aspects of the learning process
41:00 The value of teaching children about work ethic
41:49 Challenger Safety and the balance in raising Teenagers
44:20 The 4 Stages applied to our current times and environment
49:27 Tim’s advice regarding Leadership and Influence
51:10 One of Tim’s greatest lessons learned
52:06 Tim's definition of success
53:05 Tim’s parting thought about leadership 


CONCEPTS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED 

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs)
Psychologist, Carl Rogers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers)
Herbert Simon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon)
The 5 Principles of the Mars Corporation (https://www.mars.com/about/five-principles) 
"Project Aristotle" and the 5 Success Characteristics (https://www.inc.com/michael-schneider/google-thought-they-knew-how-to-create-the-perfect.html)
Resources at LeaderFactor.com (https://www.leaderfactor.com/blog)
 
To connect with Tim Clark:

https://www.leaderfactor.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyrclark/
Twitter: @timothyrclark

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