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The Power of Deep Listening: Creating Psychological Safety for Team Effectiveness and Joy@WorkGoogle's "Project Aristotle" sought to determine the key factors of effective teams and found that Psychological Safety is the #1 factor for team effectiveness, followed by Dependability and Meaning/Impact. Listening deeply and asking questions is essential for creating a culture of safety, belonging and mattering in the workplace and preventing disasters resulting from a lack of open, candid communication. Doing this can help create trust, collaboration and joy at work.Collaboration is when an effective team harnesses the best out of individuals working together and appears to be disarmingly simple:“to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something”But everyone in the team comes with their own personality, their culture and way of doing things and their own competitiveness, their fears, their concerns and their needs. For successful and fruitful collaboration, the leader needs to help the team