8 Lessons for building a company where people want

to work - TED talk by Patty Mccord:

1.) Your employees are adults.

2.) Management's job is to build great teams, not to control what people do.

3.) People want to do work that means something.

4.) Everyone who works for you should understand the business.

5.) Everyone in the company should be able to handle the truth.

6.) The company needs to live out its values.

7.) All start-up ideas are stupid

8.) Every company needs to be excited for change.

Most companies operate on a set of rules/policies like workdays on a holiday, travel protocols, standard
work hours, annual target. But what happens when a company looks less to manipulated and more to
trust? In the video with her TED talks, Patty Mccord who always wanted to be an HR Professional,
describes lessons she has learned during her career as an HR professional. She prefaces her talk by saying
that she's found that the best way to handle people might just be to treat each other like we're human
beings. She says that a main lesson of her career is that so many of the HR tools don't really matter at all.
Instead, best practice often just means following the crowd. People always wanted to work where they are
passionate enough to smile even in the hardest time where they are loaded of works. Most companies
does treat their employees like children’s to be manipulated. Management should learn to start with the
assumption that people want to do an amazing job. The most important things that should be happening
inside a business is people teaching each other regularly, let them think of a strategies on how they would
do their job properly and successfully. Because the more we embrace the job we have the more we get
excited and put our passion on it the easier would it be and bring fun to us.
Talk Nerdy To Me
Most of us think that hard skills are all you need to succeed in your professional life. Melissa Marshall
has made a career working with scientists and other technical professionals to help present to commoners,
and her TED talk "Talk Nerdy to Me".

“Take your science, subtract your bullet points and your jargon, divide by relevance — meaning share
what's relevant to the audience and multiply it by the passion that you have for this incredible work that
you're doing, and that is going to equal incredible interactions that are full of understanding," Marshall
says in her talk. What Marshall is getting at is that science and technical know how can be an intriguing
"wonderland," albeit one that the person you're talking may have never encountered before. To help non-
technical audiences understand the ideas you're imparting, consider their frame of reference and the things
they might find most fascinating, and lead with those elements.

We as an individual has already losing our ability on listening. In other words while we are good
at hearing sound around us, we often neglect to truly listen and understand the meaning of words. This
can be a common struggles for technical experts, who often start with the assumption that they know
more about a topic than those they're speaking to. However, the most important lesson when it comes to
listening to peers isn't always learning about a new aspect: rather, you can learn a lot about the way
people communicate and what kind of language they take to best. For example let’s apply it in some of
the different courses students take we all have different jargons or words we use that only few individuals
understand so in that case we must talk nerdy to them where in we would make our words simpler
without compromising the idea and more easier for them to understand every information we convey to
them.
Why Being Respectful To Your Co Workers is Good For Business

“How you show and treat people means everything”

On the video where in Christine Porath questions who do you want to be made me paused the video for
awhile and questioned myself of who do I want to be exactly? As I played the video and listens carefully
she had given some examples in how a people treat each other in work and other places. The first example
she had mentioned was lifting people up and encouraging them or Holding people down and making them
feel small. She also mentioned the Incivility thing which means being rude to somebody calling them
with such names which is a very bad thing to do but most people does it without even thinking what their
actions or how it would affect they had belittled or they had been rude on to. Being rude or disrespectful
like shouting at your co workers can lead to miscommunication and could also lead to a life and death
situation. Being uncivil comes back to hurt them one day and when they are on their weak spot and seeks
for help people won’t have their backs. A civil attitude or respecting people around you isn’t a hard thing
to do because you might not know being respected and making them feel valued may let your co workers
function at their best potentials by simply being civil towards them. With that respecting each and
everyone of them creates a good relationship between them can help everyone of you to enjoy your job
even on a very tiring days. Respects starts with you
How to Get Better at Things You Cared About

Throughout his Ted Talk, Eduardo Briceño teaches his listeners how to best improve their skills in any
activity. These people reach a point where there skills are longer improving despite of the hours they
spend of hard work. Briceño had advises the people that the most successful teams and people soar above
their plateau by spending their time alternating between the learning zone and performance zone.

“Learning zone: Prioritizes improvement of skills we haven’t mastered yet. Mistakes are to be expected
and for the focus is growth and future performance.
Performance zone: We focus on using the skills we have already mastered to execute as best as we can.
Mistakes are to be minimized and the main benefit is immediate performance. Spending too much time
in this zone limits our potential for growth.”
With the talk he made he made me realize than in order to grow you must go out of your comfort zone
and accept all the mistakes wholeheartedly and take them as a lesson for you to be able to grow.