3 Ways to Better Connect with Your Coworkers | The Way We Work, a TED series

People feel pretty disconnected at work right now:

翻译人员: Sophia Ye 校对人员: suya f.

目前，人们在工作中感到相当的疏离：

disconnected from their organizations, from their jobs,

与他们的组织、 工作以及同事之间的疏离。

and especially from their colleagues.

You might feel too burned out to do anything about this last one

也许你觉得自己已经筋疲力尽， 无法改变最后一个方面，

or maybe think that it doesn't matter.

或者认为这无关紧要。

But actually, our relationships with our coworkers

但事实上，我们与同事的关系

play a huge role in determining how successful,

在决定我们在工作中的成功、

innovative and happy we'll be at work.

创新和幸福程度方面发挥了巨大作用。

[The Way We Work]

[《我们工作的方式》]

Our work relationships give us two valuable things:

我们的工作关系为我们提供了 两个宝贵的东西：

social support and access to information.

社会支持和信息获取。

And research shows it's the combination

研究表明，这两者的结合

that can make us happier and more successful.

可以使我们更加幸福和成功。

I'm a social scientist

我是一名社会科学家，

and I study how the way we collaborate affects our well-being

研究协作方式如何影响我们的幸福和

and professional success.

职业成功。

I have a few tips,

我有一些建议，

and you don't have to be a social butterfly to give them a try.

你不必是一个社交达人才能尝试。

OK, tip number one.

好的，第一个建议。

Build trust by opening up.

通过敞开心扉建立信任。

Having a close friend at work makes us more effective at our jobs

在工作中有一个亲近的朋友使 我们更有效率，

and definitely improves our well-being.

肯定会改善我们的幸福感。

If you get along with your coworkers, you probably already have a sense of this,

如果你与同事相处得不错， 你可能已经有这种感觉，

but our work friends are important for another reason

但我们的工作朋友之所以重要 还有另一个原因，

and it has to do with access to information.

与信息获取有关。

People don't just share their best ideas with anyone.

人们不会把最好的想法分享给任何人。

We share with people we know and trust.

我们与了解并信任的人分享。

I ran a multi-year study at Google

我在谷歌进行了一项多年的研究，

to find out why some teams are successful and others fail.

以找出为什么一些团队成功 而其他团队失败。

And what we found is that the teams who trust each other do so much better

我们发现，相互信任的团队做得更好，

because people on those teams feel safe sharing their best ideas.

因为这些团队的人感到安全， 愿意分享他们最好的想法。

So how can you start to build that trust?

那么，你如何开始建立这种信任呢？

There's a concept called a vulnerability loop,

有一个概念叫做脆弱循环，

and the basic idea is that when you’re vulnerable in front of somebody,

基本思想是当你在某人面前 表现出脆弱时，

it makes it a lot easier for them to be vulnerable in front of you.

这会让他们更容易在你面前表现出脆弱。

We usually think you have to trust somebody before you can open up.

通常我们认为 在敞开心扉之前必须信任某人。

But what this research suggests is that often,

但这项研究表明， 通常情况下，

trust comes after we've been vulnerable and people have responded empathetically.

信任是在我们变得脆弱 并得到他人同理回应之后建立的。

So taking that risk to share that this week you feel a little off

因此，冒险分享这周你感到有点不适，

because your kid's starting at a new school

因为孩子开始上新学校，

or maybe you’re really worried about the status of your big project,

或者因为你担心大项目的进展状况，

that can actually go a long way towards building a sense of trust

这实际上在建立信任感 方面可以走很远的路，

that can make you and your teams much more effective.

可以使你和你的团队更加高效。

OK, tip number two, be a joiner.

好的，第二个建议，成为一个参与者。

Surprisingly, our closest friends aren't the best people

令人惊讶的是，我们最亲近的朋友

for giving us access to new information.

不一定是为我们提供新信息的最佳人选。

It's often our acquaintances

通常是我们的熟人，

because they connect us to different social circles

因为他们将我们连接到不同的社交圈，

and consequently new ways of thinking.

从而带来新的思维方式。

Social scientists call these relationships weak ties,

社会科学家将这些关系称为弱关系，

and when it comes to innovation,

在创新方面，

they're more important than our strongest connections.

它们比我们最强的联系更重要。

For example, in one study,

例如，在一项研究中，

I found that people who had many weak ties

我发现与连接到大型组织中

that connected different groups in a large organization

不同团体的许多弱关系的人

were more likely to have high performance scores,

更有可能获得高绩效评分，

more likely to be promoted

更有可能获得晋升，

and even more likely to say they were a part of a creative breakthrough.

甚至更有可能称自己是 创意突破的一部分。

The best way I've seen for developing weak ties

我见过的发展弱关系最好的方式

is to join groups outside of your day-to-day work.

是加入日常工作之外的团体。

Things like philanthropic organizations,

慈善组织、

sports clubs or employee resource groups are great examples.

体育俱乐部或员工资源团体等 都是很好的例子。

You never know.

谁知道。

Tobin from Legal, who you met playing pickleball,

在打壁球时认识的法务部的托宾

might have a great idea

可能有一个可以真正帮助 你的项目的好主意。

that can really help you out in your next project.

And for leaders trying to spark innovation,

对于试图激发创新的领导者来说，

having a regular trivia group might be more effective

拥有一个定期的小知识竞赛小组

the best-run strategy summit.

可能比最佳的战略峰会更有效。

OK, this last tip is especially helpful for managers.

好的，这最后一个建议 对经理特别有帮助。

Tip three: Make it a little bit easier for people to belong to something.

第三个建议： 让人们更容易加入某个群体。

A number of years ago,

几年前，

I helped redesign the onboarding process at a big company.

我帮助重新设计了 一个大公司的入职流程。

At the time, the onboarding week was maybe informative,

当时，入职周也许提供了信息，

but it didn't do a lot to create meaningful connection.

但没有创造有意义的联系。

So I ran an experiment.

所以我进行了一个实验。

Every week, I assigned new employees to one of five groups,

每周，我将新员工分配到五个

each with a different colored T-shirt,

不同颜色T恤的小组之一，

and something amazing started to happen.

然后出现了一些惊人的事情。

Almost immediately,

几乎立刻，

people wearing yellow T-shirts started having breakfast together.

穿着黄色T恤的人开始一起吃早餐。

People in the green T-shirts

穿绿色T恤的人

started walking between the different sessions together.

开始一起在不同的会议之间走动。

And at the end of the week,

而在周末结束时，

we blew by our happy hour budget because people hung out together

我们超支了欢乐时光的预算， 因为人们在一起的时间

so much longer than they ever had.

比以往任何时候都要长。

The best part is, after that onboarding week,

最好的部分是，在那个入职周之后，

many of those people stayed in touch for years,

许多人保持联系多年，

which became a great source of weak ties across the organization.

这成为整个组织中弱关系的重要来源。

The reason the T-shirt experiment worked so well

T恤实验之所以如此成功，

is because it gave people an easy way to identify the group they belong to.

是因为它为人们提供了一个简单的方式 来确定他们所属的群体。

You could be creative here.

你可以在这方面发挥创意。

Even things like swag, T-shirts and project code names

甚至像纪念品、 T恤和项目代码名称等东西

can go a long way towards creating a sense of belonging.

都可以在营造归属感方面发挥很大作用。

Look, people feel really isolated and disconnected right now.

看，人们现在感到非常孤立和疏离。

That's not surprising,

这并不奇怪，

we've all just been through a global pandemic.

我们刚刚经历了一场全球大流行。

The best part about reconnecting is that it doesn't just benefit you,

重新建立联系最好的部分在于， 它不仅对你有好处，

it benefits the whole community that you help create.

但它也能帮助你的整个社区。