Christine Porath: Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business
Christine Porath: Hvorfor det lønner seg å være grei mot dine kolleger
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through your actions.
gjennom handlingene dine.
your professional success
din suksess i arbeidslivet
and treat people means everything.
og behandler folk på, betyr alt.
by respecting them,
ved å respektere dem,
appreciated and heard,
verdsatte og lyttet til,
by making them feel small,
la dem føle seg små,
of incivility on people.
usivilisert atferd har på folk.
mange ulike handlinger
may be absolutely fine to another.
person kan være helt greit for en annen.
speaking to you.
når noen snakker til deg
and whether that person felt disrespected.
personen følte seg respektløst behandlet.
someone feel that way,
har det noen konsekvenser.
i et overfylt sykehusrom,
this stuffy hospital room.
this strong, athletic, energetic guy,
alltid sterk, atletisk og energisk,
strapped to his bare chest.
festet til hele overkroppen.
was work-related stress.
var arbeidsrelatert stress
just an outlier at that time.
enkelttilfelle den gangen.
a lot of incivility
That's not how it's done,"
så hadde jeg spurt."
to study the effects of this.
sitetet for å studere effekten av dette.
that small, uncivil actions
usiviliserte handlinger
påvirke både effektiviteten og bunnlinjen.
performance and the bottom line.
and what we found was eye-opening.
tidligere elever ved handelshøgskoler,
seg utsatt for frekk, respektløs
where they were treated rudely,
about how they reacted.
de reagerte på disse situasjonene.
that made insulting statements like,
kom med støtende kommentarer som,
foran resten av kollegene.
in front of the entire team.
made people less motivated:
atferd gjorde folk mindre motiverte:
worrying about what happened,
seg over det som hadde skjedd,
two things happened.
resultatene, skjedde to ting.
and estimated, conservatively,
12 million dollars a year.
12 millioner dollar hvert år.
we heard from others in our academic field
fra andre i vårt eget akademiske fagfelt
this, but how can you really show it?
tallene, min hvordan kan dere bevise det?
those that experienced incivility
som hadde vært utsatt for usivilert atferd
experience incivility.
that experience incivility
that their performance suffers."
deres ytelse reduseres."
the one who experiences it?
an experimenter act rudely
at en forsker oppførte seg ufint
"What is it with you?
to hold a job in the real world?"
på en jobb i den virkelige verden?"
insulting a group member.
var ufin mot en annen deltager.
performance decreased, too --
quite significantly.
just by being around it.
av å være i nærheten.
til arbeidsplassen.
og i våre omgangskretser.
and in our communities.
our motivation, our performance
motivasjon, ytelse
and can take some of our brainpower.
vår og kan sløve hjernen.
if we experience incivility
vi utsettes for det
just see or read rude words.
bare leser provoserende ord.
combinations of words
en liste med ord
with 15 words used to trigger rudeness:
med 15 ord ment for å provosere:
received a list of words
information right in front of them
å overse informasjon rett foran dem.
that read the rude words
to life-and-death situations.
livstruende situasjoner.
about a doctor that he worked with
kollega han jobbet med
this one particular interaction
en spesiell hendelse
at a medical team.
på en gruppe turnusleger.
of medication to their patient.
medisin til en pasient.
was right there on the chart,
klart og tydelig i tabellen,
on the team missed it.
or awareness to take it into account.
oppmerksomhet til å oppdage det.
har faktisk funnet ut
for slik grov oppførsel
in all their diagnostics,
bare med diagnostisering,
the teams exposed to rudeness
legene som var utsatt slik atferd
help from their teammates.
but in all industries.
personell, men i alle fagfelt.
en så stor belastning og kostnad,
people about this, too.
folk om dette også.
are not more civil
til og med bekymret for
and even concerned
less leader-like.
gutter satt til siden?
Lønner det seg å være et rasshøl?
a few prominent examples
klassiske eksempler på folk
så lønner det seg ikke.
in the long run, they don't.
by Morgan McCall and Michael Lombardo
av Mordan McCall og Michael Lombardo
Senteret for Kreativt Lederskap.
the Center for Creative Leadership.
knyttet til mislykket lederskap
tied to executive failure
eller bøllete lederstil.
or bullying style.
that succeed despite their incivility.
suksess til tross for sin bøllete atferd.
sabotage their success.
når de står i en svak situasjon,
when they're in a place of weakness
that you're not a jerk.
bare å unnlate å være et rasshøl.
isn't the same as lifting them up.
det samme som å gjøre dem gode.
doing the small things,
innebærer alle de små tingene,
hello in the hallway,
someone's speaking to you.
or give negative feedback civilly,
tilbakemeldinger på en ordentlig måte,
colleagues and I found
oppdaget mine kolleger og jeg
to be viewed as leaders,
å bli sett som ledere,
å være sivilisert?
as an important -- and a powerful --
of two key characteristics:
isn't just about motivating others.
ikke bare om å motivere andre.
to be seen as a leader.
på deg som en leder.
as warm and competent.
empatisk og kompetent.
about how civility pays,
på at sivilisert atferd lønner seg,
important questions around leadership:
spørsmålet rundt lederskap:
from their leaders?
20,000 employees around the world,
ansatte over hele verden,
was more important
respekt var viktigere
with their organization
and make people feel respected?
og få dem til å føles seg respektert?
it doesn't require a huge shift.
ingen stor endring.
of Ochsner Health [System],
i Oschner Health Care,
tre-halvannen system.
of their 10-5 way,
så gir du øyekontakt og smiler,
to boost an organization's performance.
øke et foretaks resultater.
as CEO of Campbell's Soup Company in 2001,
direktør i Campbell's Soup Company i 2001
had just dropped in half.
akkurat halvert seg,
the least engaged organization
minste engasjerte organisasjonen
to work his first day,
was surrounded by barbwire fence.
omgitt av piggtrådgjerder.
in the parking lot.
a minimum security prison.
et lavsikkerhetsfengsel.
had turned things around.
snudd ting rundt.
all-time performance records
nye resultatrekorder
including best place to work.
prisen for beste arbeidsplass.
high standards for performance,
standard for resultater,
to do it with civility.
and he expected his leaders to.
forventet det samme av de under ham.
to being tough-minded on standards
å ha strenge retningslinjer
these touch points,
he had with employees,
hadde med sine ansatte
in the cafeteria or in meetings.
made employees feel valued
ansatte at de var verdsatt på
he was paying attention
thank-you notes to employees.
lapper med takk til sine ansatte.
of these touch points a day.
møter med folk hver dag.
less than two minutes each.
mindre enn to minutter.
in each of these moments.
og oppmerksom i disse møtene.
og fungerer på sitt beste
and function at their best
and their performance.
og deres innsats.
when we have more civil environments,
når vi har flere siviliserte miljøer,
helpful, happy and healthy.
hjelpsomme, glade og friske.
to lift others up around us,
folk rundt oss bedre.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christine Porath - Management professor, researcherChristine Porath helps organizations build thriving workplaces.
Why you should listen
Christine Porath teaches at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She's the author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Genentech, Marriott, National Institute of Health, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice and National Security Agency. She has written for the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Quarterly and the Washington Post. She serves on the Advisory Council for the Partnership for Public Service.
Before getting her PhD, Porath worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management and marketing firm. She received her BA from College of the Holy Cross, where she was a member of the women's basketball and soccer teams, and her PhD from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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