Why Your Smartest Employees Stay Silent

Michael ran a twenty-two-person structural engineering firm in Kansas City, and his weekly project reviews had become the quietest meetings in the building. Then, on a Thursday afternoon, he overheard two of his best young engineers at the coffee machine. "We should have flagged the load path issue on the Weston project. I saw it in the meeting. I just didn't want to be the one to say it." In this episode we take psychological safety out of the corporate poster and put it back where it belongs — in the small moments where your team is silently deciding whether to speak up. We walk through the four voices your people are quietly measuring you against (question, concern, idea, and mistake), what Google's Project Aristotle and Amy Edmondson's hospital research actually found, and the single sixty-second signal an owner can send that will do more for the room than any training program.www.eqfit.org