A live experiment tests whether emotional connectedness boosts workplace productivity. One group practices mutual endorsement and active listening while sharing LinkedIn metrics; the other gets no treatment. The hypothesis: public peer validation and stronger bonds increase team cohesion and performance.
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We did an experiment on humans. Two groups, two very different outcomes.
Steve, just to let you know, I may have to leave a little bit earlier.
One group was treated with the scientific method of creating love for the workplace.
I'm all in. You're all in? All in. All in? Yeah. Let's do all in. No problem. No problem. No problem? Excellent. I really like Travis and I like his core values. No, it's true.
He believes he's a great team player because similar to me, he knows that we have to play off of one another's strengths and weaknesses.
He does a good job of listening back and synthesizing and clearly cares about the person that he is talking to.
Give everybody the benefit of the doubt and then they take it from there. She's got a great future ahead of her and I'm happy to have her part of my network. Thank you.
The other was left alone and— Better host.
Well, uh—
I'm gonna give her like 5 more minutes and then I'll leave. The point is so you guys just to get to know each other a little bit and so we can endorse each other.
Can you take that light and go like this so I don't have to go out and get my sunglasses or is that gonna be shining on us the whole time? I have 1,500 connections on my first level and I have over 500 endorsers. 80 categories. Okay, you know what, I'm gonna leave.
See if they close.
I really don't feel like they may charge through.
That other group must be so damn exciting. Are we— can we, can we come up with a title for our group? Chopped liver.
Both groups were asked to choose whether or not they wanted to endorse and recommend each other on LinkedIn.
I think we all endorse each other. We're all great. What a team. We're glowing. Everybody would endorse each other.
Do you all have cell phones here? Absolutely.
Would you be willing to take out your cell phone and connect with each other? Absolutely. On LinkedIn? And so they kind of left and we wound up talking and— We're starting a band. We're starting a band.
