Sincere cooperation can really promote the development of the cause, but excessive cooperation is not harmful.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “LinkedIn” (ID: LinkedIn -China), author Jenny Joe.
A few days ago, I saw a topic on knowing: “A company that spends four hours in a meeting should not resign.”
After the topic came out, the comment area was blown up.
“Four hours are just warming up, we are all nightclubs…”
“TV Migrants” is the first to stand up and give everyone a new vocabulary:
“Night clubs”, as the name suggests, are always in the middle of the night, project meetings, planning meetings, coordination meetings, will open … but can not produce output, always run the problem, lift the bar, give the head.
Internet “code farmers” open the Tucao mode: Why are we 996? It is because the boss particularly likes to meet before work, before the holiday, to race against time, never lost.
Not only the small fish and shrimps are tired of the meeting, but when they are greeted with gold, they have also made a fuss.
The Vice President of 360, Tan Xiaosheng, at the China Computer Conference, was dissatisfied with the meeting and immediately slammed the microphone: “You can dismiss it.”
“Those who can’t see the head and can’t finish it,It seems that the employees are busy, work efficiently, and have a prosperous scene, but the physical and mental exhaustion, time and wave Fees, internal consumption, and inefficiency.
Although the work emphasizes teamwork, but the meeting for meetings, the way of cooperation for cooperation, in many cases, the cost is far more than the benefits, is a kind of internal wear with a cooperative coat.
This article was originally written by LinkedIn, author Jenny Joe. North University, Ivy, returnees, New York State practicing lawyers, 100,000+ explosive text makers, multi-platform contract writers. WeChat public number Jenny Joe.
Collaboration is important,But “over-cooperation” is invalid
The modern society promotes cooperation, and the global leadership professor Roberto Clos leads the research team. It took eight years to prove that “too much focus on cooperation, but to reduce work efficiency”.
Dr. Clos’s research found that many white-collar workers in the past who only needed to work side by side with a few colleagues, now spend 85% of their time on meetings, synchronization emails, instant messaging, and so on. “On, sometimes it has to span multiple time zones.
The over-emphasis on cooperation has shocked Dr. Clos.
Emphasizing the trend of cooperation has already made some of the qualities that were originally the advantage of the workplace, and turned into a shortcoming.
From a personal perspective, there are two reasons for over-cooperation.
The first reason is “the driving force of identity.”
This situation is more likely to happen to newcomers in the workplace.
The “small transparency” of the advancement has just stepped into a new environment, and it is urgent to brush the sense of existence to prove its value.
When my colleague just worked, there was a lot of blood. Whenever other departments dispatched assistance, he always stood up. No matter what the other party is, he often promised without thinking.
This reaction, similar to knee reflex, is the driving force of identity.
Sometimes the project does not need to be involved too early in follow-up. She is in a helpful attitude, chasing others to help, and invisibly increases the workload of many people.
This is not part of her work. Because I want to leave a good impression to my colleagues, it adds trouble to others.
Colleagues are obsessed with the satisfaction they have received to help everyone, and become a post-it girl who asks for help. However, when her job was heavy, she did not grasp the “degree” and made herself exhausted, which in turn affected the team’s progress.
The second reason is “missing phobia.”
This is like an infectious disease. When social networks are springing up like the times, the fear of missing is even more overwhelming.
Our company is an example. It often turns out that the project planning meeting that only needs a few people has become a project coordinating meeting for dozens of people.
Leadership is intensive, and there is always concern that there is not enough communication, resulting in unnecessary losses. In the case of insurance, all departments are involved.
But I didn’t think about it. I opened the conference. There are more departments involved. Instead, the focus will be on the focus and the problem will be off-topic. The efficiency will be greatly reduced.
The company fears loss, and the individual is afraid of missing.
I am afraid to miss a meeting training and become an outsider for promotion and salary increase. In order not to miss any opportunity to demonstrate ability, self-brain, overload and force yourself to participate in all meetings, training, entertainment…
This kind of harmIf you are afraid of missing your mind, once you hijack your brain, it will interfere with people’s judgment and cannot concentrate on solving major contradictions.
In the face of numerous choices, our brains analyze 瘫痪, which means spending more time analyzing choices. In the long-term dilemma of being unable to make decisions, efficiency is lost.
Working together for cooperationThe biggest resistance to collaboration
In the 1930s, German psychologists did a “tug-of-war experiment” to collect statistics on the forces exerted by different groups of people during tug-of-war.
In the 1v1 game, each person exerts a force of about 60 kg during the dragging process.
3v3, unexpectedly, the average strength of each person was reduced to 50 kg.
When the game became 8v8, the average power actually dropped to 30 kilograms, which was half of the original.
In other words, the more participants, the actual output of each person will be less.
People-to-person collaboration is not a simple combination of manpower, it is much more complicated and subtle.
With the development of the company, the structure of the enterprise will become more and more complex, and the types of work will be more and more subdivided.
A project may require multiple departments to participate, and nodes involved in decision-making need to open more meetings and send more emails to collaborate.
spent too much time discussing how to work, but not having time to get the job done.
The study found that the top 1/4 of the world’s 300 largest companies waste at least 50% less time than other companies in unnecessary and ineffective collaboration. Employees in these great companies can save more than half a day a week.
Cooperating for cooperation, but the biggest resistance to cooperation.
Because even if everyone sees the same goal, each person’s process, method, and purpose are not the same.
There is a fable story that illustrates this very well.
Swan, pike and shrimp pull together, and all three of them are desperately pulling, but no matter how hard they try, the car is always in place.
It turns out that the swan is seeing the sky. She wants to fly to the destination by flying wings, so she flies upwards. The world of the pike is a pond, so I pull hard to the pond. Shrimp, used to drag.
There are three forces, three directions, the greater the power, giving each otherThe resistance of the other side is also greater, and the car naturally does not move.
Swan, shuttle, and shrimp are equivalent to three different departments of the company. Their respective driving forces are different. The cooperation on the surface actually presents many complicated and subtle relationships.
Attracting each other, restraining each other, complementing each other, having checks and balances, being constrained, and having connections, all of which inevitably produce internal friction and reduce efficiency.
Unnecessary over-cooperation is easy to distract and kick the ball, and the level of work is greatly reduced.
In contrast, authorizing a department or a person’s work has clear rights and responsibilities, and does not need to be pulled by complex relationships within the organization. Instead, it is self-sufficient and easy to work
Learn to do “multiple choice questions,”avoid “collaboration overloading”
A US company offers a very useful approach to avoiding “collaboration overloading.”
The company has established a Meeting Time Bank, the total time for the company to participate in the meeting is fixed, and all meeting time must be deducted from this total time.
Every time an executive schedules a new meeting, the other meetings at the same time are removed accordingly. The same is true for employees, depending on the needs, which meetings must be attended and which can be ignored, because the total time is only so much that it is impossible to attend all meetings.
Excessive collaboration, lengthy meetings, less time for personal thinking, and reduced work efficiency.
How should it be adjusted?
Please ask yourself a few questions before you work:
Why do this?
Is it anxious to keep my self-helpful image and fear that I am not involved in the team work?
It’s still important to the value or efficiency of my work.
I believe that after completing this multiple-choice question, you will have an answer in your heart.
Learn to reduce unnecessary work. Specifically, you can rework the work items of the past few months, reduce things that are not helpful to you, reflect on where you can improve, and find people who can help you achieve your goals.
You can also take the initiative to increase the value and efficiency of the collaboration you are involved in.
For example, you can ask the leader to send a meeting schedule to the person attending the meeting, or a document that will let you know the content of the meeting before the meeting, to give a brief explanation of the meeting.
Write at the end
In today’s workplace, everyone’s time is precious, so it’s more important than how much time to work, how to work efficiently.
Many people feel that people are more powerful, and teamwork is often amplified indefinitely.
Sincere cooperation can really promote career development, but over-cooperation is not harmful.
Over-reliance on cooperation can cause the team to fall into unnecessary internal friction, and the employees are plagued by heavy meetings. Cooperation itself has become a hindrance to development.