As a software engineer I'm happy to finally have some proof that *listening skills* are as important as *communication skills.* I've been working within a team of 10 non software dev's, for the past 2.5 years. I can warn or explain potential upcoming issues 500 times, without a single colleague or boss listening to me once. Whenever things (I warned for in advance) go south, they blame me for lacking communication skills. It's rather difficult having to communicate with people that have their egotistical head up their own backside! Now the question remains, do I tell my team that about 5 team-members (including my boss) suck at listening, or do I keep silent? I already found another job and resigned about two weeks ago, so job security isn't an issue. My boss is the type of person that would twist my reason of resignation, blaming it on me lacking competences and skills. In reality it's him and 4 other team members placing roadblocks in front of me on a daily basis, rather than being helpful and remove roadblocks for each-other.
Since you already established that they rarely listen, it seems unlikely telling them about their listening performance would help. Having stubborn leadership sucks, and that’s why more horizontal authority structures might be better for companies with highly skilled employees.
@@Digo-eu Well my previous job was at a University, I as an engineer had to work together with PHD owners ... They had a horizontal authority structure on paper, until a non PHD (me) proofed that a PHD owner made a mistake... That's when their ego got hurt and they started threatening my job security. Worked there for 2.5 years, before I had enough of it. I asked my boss (who also had a PHD) for a meeting, just to go over all occasions and emails where he ignored my recommendations, followed by him expecting me to fix the issues caused by not following my recommendations during unpaid overtime. The meeting took 3.5 hours! He gave me the impression during that meeting that he understood the issue, to only ignore it again less than 2 weeks later. I reminded him about our meeting, followed by him threatening me yet another time. I found another job one or two weeks later and gave my resignation letter. My countries resignation period depends on the amount of months you've worked for a certain company. I had 6 weeks of mandatory resignation time, after working there 2.5 years. We where forced to work from home since the pandemic, so my universities department head started to bully me by sending "unlawful absent of work" letters to my home address, followed by threatening to not pay my last 20 days of employment. I was lucky that my genius of a phd team-lead made a mistake, by asking me to forward my "past three weeks of work" during my last week there. He gave me proof that they wanted my work, yet didn't want to pay for it. So I refused to forward the documentation I wrote during my resignation period, until my wage got deposited. The national television here recently broadcast-ed a documentary about abuse of power at our countries universities. I'm 100% certain that I will never work at a university again! It's more about getting some PHD's egotistical name in a research paper, than actual scientifically advancements.
It is so simple, yet so hard to accomplish. This might look very simple to many people. But believe me, it is hard to find people in a workplace that actually care about each other and give each other opportunities to talk. I hope one day when I lead a team to be able to accomplish that.
Everything is correct in the material of this video. The only thing that was not explained is how to build such a team and how to select people for it.
The HR needs to do its job by hiring people who are interested/committed to their job. Logic being that you might strive to give a voice to someone, but if that person's bottom line is only showing their faces to they can pile in some temporary $$$, they are not going to care about speaking/not being spoken to in the first place. Good teams start with members who have some basic intrinsic motivation.
Aren't Google employees a very constrained dataset? Not to say this isn't true, I truly believe it is, but still where are the limits of prerequisites to even be able to contribute and mentioned team dynamics
Correction: "MALE developers are usually not super sensitive..." As a female developer, the amount of sh!t you have to go through when starting in the tech space is enough to curb your opinionated enthusiasm from the get go. :)
There was a superstar on my team a while back... He was great as an individual but our team failed anyways. Kind of similar to what these guys discovered.
A good practice of team work in a company tend to innovate the productivity of the employees. Social sensitive develop a good healthy relationship to one another thus, you can read someone's mind through their eyes if they are feeling upset. It didn't matter who is on the team as long as everybody have the right to speak, heard, and respected in the group had a positive effect on his team's ability to succeed.
Considering how desperately progressive Google is - it is surprising how this throws shade on people with autism. Don’t THEY refer to that as “ableism” or somesuch?
Every one of these companies Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple etc has succeded because they have been predators at getting THERE thing "sold" before others and also cutting of those in the company that aren't good and competent at what they are doing. Statistics can be seen from what every point of view that suits you means, if you don't have rock solid double blind test and pin point analyzing then you only have an prebiased package. If your coworkers can't step on YOUR toes then they probaly can't step on your competitions and then your company will probably loose in the competition to them.
Even with such experiments and research, done by Google, I believe it is strongly important for leaders to be humans, and have empathy instead of worrying about only numbers. Productivity is better if we feel we are part of a Team and we are considered as human beings in a team and in the company.
My reaction about this video the successful team work must have a great team, and this is a combination of solid leadership, communication, and access to good resources contribute to productive collaboration, but it all comes down to having people who understand each other and work well together and that was i can see that have a successful team work.
perhaps with having emotional intelligence too. simply because we work with people with different cultural background and Creating Cultural Awareness Guidelines and Policies.
Psychological safety is an important factor to achieve success. The team should feel safe to take risk in front of other team members. They should also have clear roles, plans and goals within the team. They should have the same goal - to achieve success. They should work together as a team to get things done. Some people prefer to work alone than working together with teammates. If that’s the case you can assign solo work to those who prefer to work solo then assign group work to those who likes to work with a team member. A team leader should know the preference of each of the team members to effectively plan the workloads of the team. The team members should make impact in their team. And their work should personally be important to them. These things can make a better team and can help achieve success.
So, the result of this is: Most people can't work efficiently... Maybe Google should focus on finding way to improve people instead of rejecting people that don't have people skills. What do you do with people that wont talk, people that have difficulties to express them self or understand others... are you just rejecting them and build team with people skills... I'm not ok we that, I wll continue to work with everyone with technical skills and we will adapt. This is pure passive-aggressive study and robot mentality.
I don’t think google cares about ppl’s feelings. It is just stating the results of its study. Their research’s purpose was to provide a reason why some teams preformed better and the results were that these ppl had high EQ. Maybe someone else can come up with other ways to encourage or help out ppl with low EQ or social skills.
Thank you for a nice presentation. O may be a bit slow but I had sort of a hard time finding the 3:d conclusion. 1 and 2 were very well presented and then all of a sudden a recap. Maybe it's just me, otherwise maybe something to consider. Thanks!
It costs us millions of dollars of data research to conclude common-sense things; that fairness and empathy breed better work places. I wonder why people in the tech community are so disconnected that they would approach these issues as if landed in a flying saucer from another planet.
I'm honestly surprised it took a study for them to figure this out. It's kind of, you know, elementary people skills. Treat people well, they'll treat you well, and stuff gets done. Treat people poorly, they'll treat you poorly, and you end up bickering instead of working. Not exactly rocket science.
I think its a coverup, I think they are masking it up with a poor excuse, because they wanted to hide their inability to even find the similarities and what they got they couldn't share.
Team work is better to success. its important to show respect each other so that no matter how big the problem it is if you help each other you can do it .
Companies encourage teamwork because it fosters synergy, innovation, and efficiency. By pooling together diverse skills, knowledge, and perspectives, teams can tackle complex challenges more effectively than individuals working in isolation.
Hi. 🙂 Please, let us pray together. Dear God who art in heaven hallow be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever in Jesus Christ's name we pray amen.
Collaboration is encouraged among employees at technology organisations due to research showing that groups generate ideas more quickly, are more productive, are able to identify errors sooner, and solve problems more effectively.
@@jamesr5741 If we want things done quickly, do it alone, if we want things done faster do it with a professionally productive team with the right skills in my opinion.
Successful teamwork is based on respect, communication and joint problem solving. An effective team achieves its goals. All tasks become easier. The leadership is full of fair decision-making and effective communication. Members of the team feel confident contributing their ideas and skills. People are patient with team members who are learning new or early teamwork skills
Subject : No incentive for team work to students in education system We need admission or college exam to be given in teams so teamwork has value in students mind. otherwise they don't have incentive to work in team. We need to give incentive to students to work in team. because in early age if they don't learn team work and they don't have incentive to do team work , then you will have depressed and selfish future generation. Youth overestimate their talent and underestimate the importance of team work and trust building, and trust did not build in short time. So practice of trust building is needed for a better future of young generation.
I think the way large companies address problems has a tendency to disincentivize employees being accountable. An employee will be less communicative when he is more occupied with avoiding consequences. An employee who believes he can be accountable for himself will be more motivated and more engaged!
This video really captured us, on how to be in hand to hand or helping each other. Team work means understanding each other, communicate in good manners and respect to each others. We kind find success when the organization has a team work. So in order to succeed let's have teamwork and accept whatever opinions of others. Open-minded is the most important in the team.
Interesting findings but conclusion is lacking. Is developers' emotional safety the only thing impacted by balance in outgoing conversation and ability to read non-verbal cues? No. More likely it's about communication coverage: every person on the team has different responsibility, everyone has different viewpoint on the battleground. The more one person is silent the bigger the blindside rest of the team has and reading non-verbal cues is needed to gather information about what is not being said and maybe should be said. Of course having team members suffering from mental breakdowns doesn't help, but I don't know if developers are that fragile.
They are not. They have to work hard and learn new algorithms everyday. if they were that fragile then nobody would have gotten their work done on time. Except for the big companies like Microsoft and Apple, they are a disaster.
How I come I figured this out by myself? Answer: Landing in horrible workplace environments and having to make things WORK for myself and others. But research is cool though: Gorgle gets to spend millions on something that a Millennial globe-trotter like me concluded from her own life experiences...
Yes you get that from personal experience but keep in mind that google research is well trusted so ppl will most likely believe them than anyone with experience. Also a study helps out more
Teamwork is an important characteristic in professional & personal life. It has two sides, one which strengthens & dignifies teamwork & the other makes some shake hands & do harm to others. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3EY0Qpr-k8U.html
