{"id":341616,"date":"2025-12-13T07:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/want-to-build-team-trust-and-safety-in-15-minutes-graeme-cowan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:19:49","slug":"want-to-build-team-trust-and-safety-in-15-minutes-graeme-cowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=341616","title":{"rendered":"Want to build team trust and safety in 15 minutes? | Graeme Cowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Richmond Football Club followed this process to go from 13<sup>th<\/sup> place in 2016 to Premiers in 2017 \u2013 regarded as one of the most impressive turnarounds in AFL history.<\/p>\n<p>They did it by building huge trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try this with your team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rotating interviews in your weekly meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Not conversations. Interviews.<\/p>\n<p>One person asks. One answers.<\/p>\n<p>Just 15 minutes each week.<\/p>\n<p>Each week a new person is interviewed \u2013 and a new interviewer \u2013 until everyone has had their turn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s a childhood memory that shaped you?<\/p>\n<p>What do you consider one of your hardships?<\/p>\n<p>What are you most proud of?<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s a personal hero?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the one thing that energises you outside work?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When your team knows that Dali needs her morning run, that David lights up talking about his kids, that Maya recharges through painting\u2014<\/p>\n<p>They stop seeing coworkers.<\/p>\n<p>They start seeing humans.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows: psychological safety isn\u2019t built through trust falls.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s built through structured vulnerability and honest sharing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Communities where people just work together vs communities where people actually thrive.<\/p>\n<p>15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Real questions.<\/p>\n<p>Real answers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where teams become something more.<\/p>\n<p>At the RFC, their coach Damien Hardwick shared his Highlights, Hardships, and Hero \u2013 and was then followed by every player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ RICHMOND CASE STUDY AT LINK BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graemecowan.com.au\/richmond-went-chumps-champs-1-year-nothing-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How Richmond went from chumps to champs in 1 year (and it had nothing to do with football)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graeme Cowan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KEYNOTE SPEAKER | Building Team Psychological Safety &amp; Resilience Expert &amp; LinkedIn Top Voice | Founding Director R U, OK? | Author of GREAT LEADERS CARE (Wiley 2026) | Helping leaders build psychologically safe and resilient teams where care &amp; performance thrive<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond Football Club followed this process to go from 13th place in 2016 to Premiers in 2017 \u2013 regarded as one of the most impressive turnarounds in AFL history. 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