The problem with being too nice at work | Tessa West | TEDxColumbiaUniversity

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @FaithFashionFinances
    @FaithFashionFinances 11 месяцев назад +15

    Anxious niceness just sounds like another way of people pleasing

  • @susanmercurio1060
    @susanmercurio1060 9 месяцев назад +7

    I actually do ask "Do you want me to be nice or honest?"

  • @katielangsner495
    @katielangsner495 11 месяцев назад +21

    As an autistic ADHD person I would love to see an interactive study like this with autistic and neurotypical people, plus autistic and other autistic people.

  • @jessicahoff28
    @jessicahoff28 11 месяцев назад +20

    I always build rapport before giving feedback. I start with what’s going well and what we can work on and why. It’s still uncomfortable, it does make it much easier to give feedback.

    • @Sincerely_SweetAesthete
      @Sincerely_SweetAesthete 6 месяцев назад

      I agree with the building a rapport first, but in a leadership role, it should always be about bettering the other person and empowering them, not how we feel about giving it.

  • @dameanvil
    @dameanvil 11 месяцев назад +37

    00:30 🗣 Social interactions are studied in three aspects: what people say (verbal), non-verbal behaviors, and under-the-skin responses (physiological reactions).
    02:48 🤔 Uncomfortable interactions prompt physiological stress responses and non-verbal signs like fidgeting, avoiding eye contact, distancing behavior.
    05:32 😬 Anxious niceness involves vague compliments, which, if persistent, evoke negative perceptions from recipients, especially racial minorities.
    06:26 🌐 Racial minorities tend to synchronize with anxious nice behaviors of others, experiencing heightened stress responses, impacting their own physiology.
    08:47 ⚠ Overly positive feedback in negotiations can harm performance and distort perceptions, leading to inaccurate judgments in high vs. low-status interactions.
    09:44 📉 Generic positive feedback damages reputations when not substantiated by real data or specifics, affecting how others perceive the feedback recipient.
    10:12 🤝 Foster a culture of clear, consistent feedback by gauging interest in tougher, constructive feedback and framing it along specific dimensions.
    11:49 🔄 Feedback dynamics involve both giver and receiver, necessitating a shift from asking 'nice or honest' to framing feedback in specific, constructive dimensions.
    13:11 🚫 Negative feedback should be specific, focusing on behavioral changes rather than vague requests, akin to replacing behaviors in personal contexts.
    15:17 🌱 Transform feedback culture incrementally, starting with neutral, non-threatening specifics, reducing anxiety in both giving and receiving critical feedback.

    • @Ms.Mee777
      @Ms.Mee777 10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks!

  • @drsjamesserra
    @drsjamesserra 5 месяцев назад

    Nice feedback is not always harming the recipient. If recipients are clear upfront what kind of feedback they wish to receive, e.g. about content of the presentation, delivery, pace, body language etc, the feedback given is focused and geniune.

  • @AsdrubaleRossi
    @AsdrubaleRossi 11 месяцев назад +4

    This talk assumes everyone is from the US, and also doesn't speak about the huge difference between negative feedback given in private or public.
    The US is one of the countries that struggles most with negative feedback, which causes everyone else to fail to read between the lines.
    If you come to me and you say that my talk was great, but I was staring in the wrong place, I will mostly listen to the first thing you said about my talk being great, and think I should keep doing great talks like these.

  • @brookeb6964
    @brookeb6964 10 месяцев назад +2

    This reminds me of the quadrant in the book, Radical Candor, called Manipulative Insincerity. It is the least effective management style. In The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*, Mark Manson also goes into the cultural differences of niceness and how Americans have adapted to this way of interacting. Loved learning more about how I can apply constructive criticism in the workplace! Thank you.

  • @kentlarsen5834
    @kentlarsen5834 10 месяцев назад +1

    Tessa is wanting to treat us humans men and woman as lab mice. How wonderful to see her just chopping at the bit to analyze us.

  • @myusername616
    @myusername616 10 месяцев назад +1

    This talk seems geared towards managers, which is not specified in the title, so it’s not for me. During the talk I kept reflecting on the different work spheres I’ve been in, art, science, banking, and food service. Art has the best development of honest, constructive critiques. I’ve felt that other disciplines could use some practice with art critiques which would ease performance reviews, meetings, and general workplace interactions.

  • @Mr.marketer1
    @Mr.marketer1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Absolutely valuable. I started this content creation and I see my team as a team more than friends. That’s why there are less conflicts between our feelings. But more people are complaining ‘why don’t u be more friendly with me’ ‘why don’t u get personal? Do u agree with me with what I have done? Or did I do anything wrong? Help me!😮😮

  • @kevinbecker4507
    @kevinbecker4507 11 месяцев назад +4

    This niceness cultuere has some deep negative holes, that we dont want to see. Thanks for talking about the right way of an ideal interaction, where humans can growth. See ya

  • @MVK123
    @MVK123 9 месяцев назад

    I'm a former university lecturer and this talk reminds me of the empty drivel that university classes now deliver. I recognise the usual desguise of having some kind of value or being professional. It's mostly all (not entirely) a farce, but at least the piece of paper is still important (for now). I personally know two people who were given this TedTalk platform and let's just say they really gave a performance. In both cases their goal was to get a TedTalk and after they started thinking about what profound things they could share 🙁

  • @King-of-the-Brittons
    @King-of-the-Brittons 11 месяцев назад +5

    In my corporate experience people would much rather pat eachother on the back with toxic positivity than learn through constructive criticism. You may not grow through incessant and vague positivity but you probably will progress.

  • @egx161
    @egx161 11 месяцев назад +3

    I had a recent confrontation with my manager recently. I was being cordial and honest but his own feelings of guilt and dishonesty made him angry. He walked away mumbling something about how I was stepping on people’s toes. He said I implied something. Totally unprofessional behavior. Nepotism is not good at the workplace.

    • @rockrecordreport7136
      @rockrecordreport7136 10 месяцев назад

      I've seen this in almost every place I have ever worked. There is a real need to be phony, indirect, ambitious and cut-throat without people suspecting. Try being just honest and helpful and watch it backfire. Unless you plan on being around for decades, best to just get what you want and what you need out of it, go with the flow a bit, and move on shortly after. Hopefully you can gain a friend or two out of the wreckage. Robert Greene got it mostly right with "The 48 Laws of Power" book.

  • @genderandsociety105
    @genderandsociety105 10 месяцев назад

    effective work communication is culture-bound ;)

  • @DMCCH88
    @DMCCH88 10 месяцев назад +1

    My experience is people do not feel they earn any by giving efforts to feedback in HKU while people do not care about intelligence but keeping a chilled “friendly” agreeable persona in MelbUni……..

  • @deedieducati2272
    @deedieducati2272 11 месяцев назад +3

    The "being timely" comment could also be a sarcastic comment about the fact that you're always late.
    There's a lot going on in a sentence in a conversation. Unspoken words are just important as spoken ones. It is the combination of what you say, what you do and how you act that sends the message of what you're trying to convey.......much like punctuation changes a sentences meaning. (Example:
    "Mom's hungry, Dad. Will bring tacos"...means I will bring tacos.
    "Mom's hungry. Dad will bring tacos"...means Dad will bring tacos.)

  • @doranwisner497
    @doranwisner497 10 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting subject matter. This talk had me thinking about the fictional Star Trek character Mr Spock. He would be perplexed by this talk. 😆 Jokes aside, it also makes me think about the idea of being antifragile and how one could use that to navigate the endemic "anxious niceness" in a corporate environment. Or you could take it a step further and become self employed because when you work at a company, it is nearly impossible to feel truly connected/open because no matter what, you are vulnerable to the volatility of a company's financial health. And as a result, there will always be a bit of "acting" going on as a matter of self preservation. The expression, "it's nothing personal, it's just business" idea comes to mind as well and I think most people make their jobs personal, it's hard to not do that, i.e. it's hard to be like Mr Spock.

  • @HaiNguyenLandNhaTrang
    @HaiNguyenLandNhaTrang 11 месяцев назад +2

    Totally agree. Thanks. Best regards. From Vietnam

  • @rahulsarkar5809
    @rahulsarkar5809 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks a lots for everything ....

  • @jayliciouslobster5582
    @jayliciouslobster5582 11 месяцев назад +4

    she embodies awkwardness well

  • @CTimmerman
    @CTimmerman 10 месяцев назад

    TL;DW: Give constructive feedback like "You did X well, but could improve Y."

  • @MNP208
    @MNP208 11 месяцев назад +4

    Ha, she’s never been in a nurses’ station! It’s more like passive aggressive meanness. Not anxious niceness! If you don’t learn how to be aggressive, you’ll never last.

  • @witHonor1
    @witHonor1 10 месяцев назад

    If you can't controll all three things, we aren't playing the same game, sport. Turn your camera on and watch me work. Confirmation bias at it's peak. This is the opposite of mentalism.

  • @Sports7-u6b
    @Sports7-u6b 11 месяцев назад +1

    Much appreciated

  • @thecressoflearning1996
    @thecressoflearning1996 11 месяцев назад +1

    Whenever something good happens we expect feedback so that our effort will be got rewarded👍

    • @FaithFashionFinances
      @FaithFashionFinances 10 месяцев назад +1

      Feedback is great if a person is open to hearing it.Some people just get defensive

  • @khansvirtualdiary
    @khansvirtualdiary 11 месяцев назад

    me suffering and enduring the consequences; I should get over it. shouldn't I?

  • @HowToSaveMoneyOnCarRepairs
    @HowToSaveMoneyOnCarRepairs 11 месяцев назад

    I Love all that, another Nice Human Educator...! 🤔🤔😇😇👍👍

  • @chemist532
    @chemist532 11 месяцев назад +2

    Before going to work things messed up in mind to cope situation even didn't anything happen weired. Just nervousness 😅

  • @ieisha6990
    @ieisha6990 11 месяцев назад +2

    I really love this Ted Talk

  • @TipuSultan-hg5nb
    @TipuSultan-hg5nb 11 месяцев назад +1

    Simply beautiful 😊

  • @knaw35
    @knaw35 11 месяцев назад +2

    It is about what and how. Not about why. If we know why we behave this and that way we can understand situations and act accordingly. She gives so called ‘technicalities’. Anyone can learn these patterns and still be hopeless.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 11 месяцев назад

      She does cover 'why', along with everything else. You want 'why' in detail, go take her courses. :P That can't be described deeply in 15 min.

  • @rockrecordreport7136
    @rockrecordreport7136 10 месяцев назад

    The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene has other ideas about getting through work and commutations in the work place. It's not a very pretty picture unlike this video paints.

  • @georgespiese7388
    @georgespiese7388 11 месяцев назад +1

    Why jump thru hoops to get what u want. Tell them what u want and expect to get it. If not move on. Sheesh!

  • @rbruce5270
    @rbruce5270 11 месяцев назад +6

    go for a run and have a cold shower, get comfortable being uncomfortable... you only grow in discomfort, like it or not
    this obviously only applies to people who actually want to grow and improve

  • @aaronaustrie
    @aaronaustrie 11 месяцев назад +1

    This video is facts👌🏾💯

  • @martinneltner5813
    @martinneltner5813 11 месяцев назад

    Open communication start with a
    strong handshake. Eye contact Listen with eye contact . Iisten take mental notes

  • @Escuchando101
    @Escuchando101 11 месяцев назад +1

    12:00 that’s the problem of American culture. It’s funny when people start their sentence with ‘to be honest’ or ‘Do you want honest answer’. Where other many countries, they don’t even have that idea in their heads.
    We are too nice here to the point that dishonest answer is the default!

  • @cassiestevens8382
    @cassiestevens8382 10 месяцев назад

    ❣️

  • @CornPopWazABadDude
    @CornPopWazABadDude 11 месяцев назад +22

    She's been talking for over 15 mins and I have no idea what about

    • @hammerfistrevolution5232
      @hammerfistrevolution5232 11 месяцев назад +12

      I guess that's a you problem lol

    • @CornPopWazABadDude
      @CornPopWazABadDude 11 месяцев назад

      @@hammerfistrevolution5232 well my comment has more likes than yours does so nanny nanny boo boo stick your head in doo doo!

    • @lucaslandin246
      @lucaslandin246 11 месяцев назад

      @@hammerfistrevolution5232y

    • @mohamedzain2363
      @mohamedzain2363 11 месяцев назад +4

      Awkward presentation about awkwardness :)

    • @uktesting8298
      @uktesting8298 11 месяцев назад

      uuwowwel what kass

  • @BunderChowed
    @BunderChowed 11 месяцев назад +6

    Question: why is society too afraid to call out 1$raeli apartheid ?

    • @BunderChowed
      @BunderChowed 11 месяцев назад +1

      @DAF-guard so it doesn't get blocked plus apartheid is built on corruption, so it's to emphisise that

  • @Preciousvibez
    @Preciousvibez 11 месяцев назад +2

    Lovely intelligent lady. I just wish she would have chosen another choice of outfit not that it’s not nice it’s just maybe it’s the color choice . Nonetheless love a good talk.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 11 месяцев назад +1

      I like it. And obviously so does she. Don't like it, listen and don't watch.

  • @ValeriaVincentSancisi
    @ValeriaVincentSancisi 11 месяцев назад

    I think that topic is super important but this talk was too short to really understand what is scary and what isnt and what about reason the anxious niceness is trying to make sure doesnt happen is being in a situation that is not civil... that a line got crossed.. that anxiousness I feel has a logic that this talk ignored. So would love to hear more...

  • @Mariahugo472
    @Mariahugo472 11 месяцев назад +35

    The smartest thing that should be on everyone's mind right now should be to invest in different streams of income that are not dependent on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver, and digital currencies (BTC ETH...).

    • @JohnMcCain-qw4zl
      @JohnMcCain-qw4zl 11 месяцев назад

      Even with the current dip in the market I'm still glad I can smile 😊 back at my portfolio of $19750 built from my weekly trading with Mrs Olivia.

    • @ron.porter.10
      @ron.porter.10 11 месяцев назад

      Same here, I earn $19,500 a week. God bless Mrs Olivia, she has been a blessing to i and family.

    • @markharper171
      @markharper171 11 месяцев назад

      I will leave her number just below this comment

    • @markharper171
      @markharper171 11 месяцев назад

      +1

    • @markharper171
      @markharper171 11 месяцев назад

      53928

  • @Doggieworld3Show
    @Doggieworld3Show 11 месяцев назад

    Don’t trust everyone

  • @Merope4ever
    @Merope4ever 11 месяцев назад

    So you have a culture of anxious niceness and it's an issue? Maybe move to a country where people anxiously kill each other... Sounds like you're complaining about a luxury problem here...
    I guess you can try to build more safe meaningful relationships with the people closest to you. Where you have the space to really say useful things.
    And for the people further from you. You can't save them all. Maybe they are lucky and you understand enough of what they do for you to help them get what they need. Maybe they have bad luck because you don't have the time. That's life.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 11 месяцев назад

      "Maybe move to a country where people anxiously kill each other"--that's America. The rest of us look at you carefully and stay away. And she mentions you in the talk.

  • @mariaantoniettamontella9173
    @mariaantoniettamontella9173 10 месяцев назад

    too fast speach

  • @Mr.marketer1
    @Mr.marketer1 11 месяцев назад +11

    Absolutely valuable. I started this content creation and I see my team as a team more than friends. That’s why there are less conflicts between our feelings. But more people are complaining ‘why don’t u be more friendly with me’ ‘why don’t u get personal? Do u agree with me with what I have done? Or did I do anything wrong? Help me!😮😮

    • @ArindamGangulyKolkata
      @ArindamGangulyKolkata 11 месяцев назад

      @Mr.marketer1 are your content means to be setting up some norms or process to be followed by your team ? Are you requesting for any feedback from your team on your activity ? If you do so you will get the answer.

    • @Goddess_erika
      @Goddess_erika 11 месяцев назад +8

      Your team is help you to get work done. Your job is not walk on the egg shell to take care of fragile feelings of people you work with with, They are not your family or children. They are adults and fully capable of talking care of their emotions. I congratulate you…being professional❤ Do not worry about people who are incapable of being professional. If a leader worry about making everyone “happy” nothing will get done.

    • @Mr.marketer1
      @Mr.marketer1 11 месяцев назад

      @@ArindamGangulyKolkata yes