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90 Days to Level Up Your Teamwork
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90 Days to Level Up Your Teamwork

by Amy C. Edmondson
October 2025
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
4h 21m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Part IIDays 31–60

Performance goal: Team fearlessly with psychological safety.

Teaming is the art of communicating and coordinating with people across boundaries of all kinds: expertise, status, and distance, to name the most important. But whether you’re teaming with new colleagues all the time or working in a stable team, effective teamwork happens best in a psychologically safe workplace.

The following table summarizes the goals you will pursue over the next 30 days. To keep yourself motivated, consider your personal goals and vision for success. What does psychological safety mean to you?

Days 31–60Performance Goal: Team fearlessly with psychological safety.
Week 5 Benchmark Goal: Grasp the power of psychological safety.
  • Can you think of the last time you made an “unconscious calculation” to stay silent because of a lack of psychological safety?
  • What would have been different if you’d felt psychologically safe?
  • What does a psychologically safe workplace look like to you?
  • How does psychological safety boost performance?
Week 6 Benchmark Goal: Make it safe to team.
  • What risks do you face at work?
  • What are some of the benefits of psychological safety?
  • Can you think of a time when hierarchy affected psychological safety for the worse?
  • Of the tools for cultivating psychological safety, which do you think you need to improve on the most?
Week 7 Benchmark Goal: Frame your team for success.
  • What is framing versus reframing?
  • What’s a leader’s role in framing?
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