Strong Leaders Serve with Teri Schmidt
For compassionate leaders who've quietly outgrown what used to work.
You're not in leadership for the title. You're in it to use your strengths to make a way for others to use theirs.
You've stopped waiting for a certainty that was never going to arrive. Now you're ready to lead with clarity and confidence, right in the middle of the uncertainty.
This show is for you if you're looking to:
✅ Find your footing again, instead of just pushing through the overwhelm
✅ Turn the people who follow you into leaders in their own right
✅ Lead in a way that sustains you, not one that wears you down
Hosted by Teri Schmidt, Executive Leadership Coach & CEO of Strong Leaders Serve.
Each episode supports leaders navigating the shift into roles where success isn't just about their own performance anymore. It's about leading through complexity, ambiguity, and stakes their old playbook never had to handle.
We name what's actually happening underneath the overwhelm, and find a way back to steady leadership, without pretending there's a five-step fix.
Strong Leaders Serve with Teri Schmidt
148. Boosting Team Performance: Reducing Cognitive Load through Psychological Safety with Tom Geraghty
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Did you know that when there is psychological safety on a team, it actually can reduce our cognitive load, making it easier to solve problems and innovate?
We no longer have to perform the mental risk calculations and assess our vulnerability whenever we want to ask a question. Instead, we can focus our brain power as a team on problem solving and innovation.
In this episode, Tom Geraghty, founder of psychsafety.com, discusses the relationship between cognitive load and psychological safety and how we can use that knowledge to help teams thrive. We also discuss how psychological safety relates to privilege and intersectionality. Finally, Tom provides actionable practices for new and experienced leaders to more effectively create environments of psych safety so that the bulk of the team's cognitive load can be dedicated to meaningful, productive work.
Resources:
- Tom's website: https://psychsafety.co.uk
- Sign up for Tom's newsletter: https://psychsafety.co.uk/newsletter
- Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraghtytom
Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-m-schmidt/ or via email teri@strongleadersserve.com.
Get 1-on-1 leadership support here: https://www.strongleadersserve.com/coaching