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#193 | You Put Psychological Safety in a Slide Deck. Your Team Still Doesn’t Feel It.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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▶︎ #193 | You Put Psychological Safety in a Slide Deck. Your Team Still Doesn’t Feel It. In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska takes on a phrase most tech leaders have grown allergic to: psychological safety. She names the pattern first, because it’s the one that starts almost every mentoring conversation on this subject: a leader declares: "Come to me with mistakes, come to me with bad news," everyone nods, and six months later that same leader is blindsided by a problem the team saw coming for weeks and never mentioned. Alex is direct about why this keeps happening even with leaders who genuinely mean it: psychological safety doesn’t get built by the statement; it gets built by what happens the first time someone actually tests it, and most leaders never run that test on themselves first. If you’ve ever declared an open door and privately wondered why nobody’s walking through it, this episode gives you the specific, sixty-second-level tools to actually build the trust instead of just announcing it. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/