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Communication Workshop
Semira Rahemtulla
May 17, 2016
Who am I?
• Co-founder/CEO of PlayTell
• Director, Product Mgmt @ Guidewire
(IPO 2010, $4B+ market cap)
• UX Designer @ multiple startups
• Harvard Ed.M Technology In Education
• Stanford Computer Science (undergrad)
Semira Rahemtulla
Cofounder of InnerSpace
One Big Idea
INTENT
Needs
Motives
Stories
Reality #2
IMPACT
Assumptions
Feelings
Responses
Reality #3
3 Realities (The “Net” Model)
The Net
BEHAVIOR
Verbal
Non-Verbal
Reality #1
Shared
Feelings & Emotions – Why??Feelings & Emotions – Why??
Exercise #2: If You Really Knew Me…
• Each person gets 2min to complete the
sentence “If you really knew me (right now)….”
• No responses except “Thank you”
Self-Disclosure
Will I be less
liked,
respected,
influential
(leader-like)?
Is it relevant?
Will it further the
discussion – the
relationship?
Will others
use this
information
against me?
How will
others
see/assess/
judge me?
“What in
my ‘bubble’
should I
share?”
Self-Disclosure
“ VULNERABILITY IS
THE BIRTHPLACE
OF CONNECTION. ”
BRENÉ
BROWN
Authentic Leaders
“The single factor distinguishing top quartile
managers from bottom quartile managers
was strength of affection.”
--“Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others”,
Kouzes & Posner
Authentic Leaders
Feedback & Influence
Photo:RobbieGrubbs
Can I give you some feedback?
My Feedback Dilemma
“You’re not handling the claims project very well.
Your spec is disorganized and incomplete. And
because of that, we’re now at a point where the
feature won’t get done on time.
I need you to fix the spec like we talked about so
we can get the project on track.”
My Feedback Dilemma
“You’re not handling the claims project very well.
96%Chance of
Defensiveness
Harsh Startup
So… how do we communicate feedback
while minimizing defensiveness?
INTENT
Needs
Motives
Stories
Reality #2
IMPACT
Assumptions
Feelings
Responses
Reality #3
3 Realities (The “Net” Model)
The Net
BEHAVIOR
Verbal
Non-Verbal
Reality #1
Shared
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityHow to Give Effective Feedback
• Focus on specific, observable behavior
When you do [x]…
• Describe the impact of that behavior on you
I feel [y]…
• Ask about the other person’s motives or
intentions
Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
Stay on your side of the net!
Better feedback for Bob?
• Focus on specific, observable behavior
You didn’t change the spec like we discussed
• Describe the impact of that behavior on you
I’m feeling concerned about the project and getting it done
on schedule
• Ask about the other person’s motives or
intentions
Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityLet’s try another example…
1. You’re not very approachable.
2. When I asked you for time off last week, you didn’t respond
very well. You’re not very approachable.
3. When I asked you for time off last week and you said “oh
man, the team really needs you right now,” I felt guilty for
asking, even though that time off is important to me. And I’ve
noticed I’m more hesitant now to approach you with
questions or requests.
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityHow to Give Effective Feedback
When you do [x]…
I feel [y == emotion] that / like
And my story is [z].
Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
Social situations ≈ Physical threats
Threat Response
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityThe Setup
1. Check in
– “Is now a good time?”
2. Soft Start
– Do not use praise to buffer criticism (“The Sandwich”)
– Do emphasize mutual goals & positive intent:
“My intention is…… / This matters to me because…”
Photo by Ana Karenina [link]
1:1 Feedback
Kelly + John C
Cristina + John H
Kay + Billy
Malthe + Courtney
Cecilia + Kevin
Stacie + Ethan + Jacques
Jeff + Cosmin
Josh + Jorge
Bryan + Desmond + Michael
Kelly + Courtney
John C + Malthe
Billy + Cristina
Ethan + Cecilia
Kay + Cosmin
Stacie + Jacques
Jeff + Jorge
Bryan + Michael
Kevin - BYE
Josh - BYE
Desmond - BYE
John H - BYE
#1 Factor for Happiness
on the Job:
Feeling appreciated
-- 2014 BCG/The Network survey of 200K employees
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityBuilding a culture of appreciation
1. Create a space for it
2. Lead by example
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityLast Reminder
Stay on your side of the net:
When you do [x]…
I feel [y]…
And my story is [z].
Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
Use the Vocabulary of Emotions.
Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilitySuggested Topics For Feedback
Work Product
– Timeliness, quality, quantity,
focus area
Communication & Management
– Too much/little
– Choice of format
– Email etiquette
– Language choices,
communication style with others
– Transparency of project status,
hiring/firing/promotions
Role Modeling & Presence
– What energy do you feel from
this person?
– How do they impact others?
– What do they model well?
– Anything you worry about?
– Arrival/departure times
– How they speak/listen/act/dress
Thanks, good-bye, and stay on
your side of the net 

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InnerSpace / Stripe Communication Workshop

  • 2. Who am I? • Co-founder/CEO of PlayTell • Director, Product Mgmt @ Guidewire (IPO 2010, $4B+ market cap) • UX Designer @ multiple startups • Harvard Ed.M Technology In Education • Stanford Computer Science (undergrad) Semira Rahemtulla Cofounder of InnerSpace
  • 4. INTENT Needs Motives Stories Reality #2 IMPACT Assumptions Feelings Responses Reality #3 3 Realities (The “Net” Model) The Net BEHAVIOR Verbal Non-Verbal Reality #1 Shared
  • 5. Feelings & Emotions – Why??Feelings & Emotions – Why??
  • 6. Exercise #2: If You Really Knew Me… • Each person gets 2min to complete the sentence “If you really knew me (right now)….” • No responses except “Thank you”
  • 7. Self-Disclosure Will I be less liked, respected, influential (leader-like)? Is it relevant? Will it further the discussion – the relationship? Will others use this information against me? How will others see/assess/ judge me? “What in my ‘bubble’ should I share?” Self-Disclosure
  • 8. “ VULNERABILITY IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF CONNECTION. ” BRENÉ BROWN
  • 9. Authentic Leaders “The single factor distinguishing top quartile managers from bottom quartile managers was strength of affection.” --“Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others”, Kouzes & Posner Authentic Leaders
  • 11. Photo:RobbieGrubbs Can I give you some feedback?
  • 12. My Feedback Dilemma “You’re not handling the claims project very well. Your spec is disorganized and incomplete. And because of that, we’re now at a point where the feature won’t get done on time. I need you to fix the spec like we talked about so we can get the project on track.”
  • 13. My Feedback Dilemma “You’re not handling the claims project very well. 96%Chance of Defensiveness Harsh Startup
  • 14. So… how do we communicate feedback while minimizing defensiveness?
  • 15. INTENT Needs Motives Stories Reality #2 IMPACT Assumptions Feelings Responses Reality #3 3 Realities (The “Net” Model) The Net BEHAVIOR Verbal Non-Verbal Reality #1 Shared
  • 16. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityHow to Give Effective Feedback • Focus on specific, observable behavior When you do [x]… • Describe the impact of that behavior on you I feel [y]… • Ask about the other person’s motives or intentions Can you tell me what’s going on for you? Stay on your side of the net!
  • 17. Better feedback for Bob? • Focus on specific, observable behavior You didn’t change the spec like we discussed • Describe the impact of that behavior on you I’m feeling concerned about the project and getting it done on schedule • Ask about the other person’s motives or intentions Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
  • 18. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityLet’s try another example… 1. You’re not very approachable. 2. When I asked you for time off last week, you didn’t respond very well. You’re not very approachable. 3. When I asked you for time off last week and you said “oh man, the team really needs you right now,” I felt guilty for asking, even though that time off is important to me. And I’ve noticed I’m more hesitant now to approach you with questions or requests.
  • 19. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityHow to Give Effective Feedback When you do [x]… I feel [y == emotion] that / like And my story is [z]. Can you tell me what’s going on for you?
  • 20. Social situations ≈ Physical threats Threat Response
  • 21. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityThe Setup 1. Check in – “Is now a good time?” 2. Soft Start – Do not use praise to buffer criticism (“The Sandwich”) – Do emphasize mutual goals & positive intent: “My intention is…… / This matters to me because…”
  • 22. Photo by Ana Karenina [link] 1:1 Feedback Kelly + John C Cristina + John H Kay + Billy Malthe + Courtney Cecilia + Kevin Stacie + Ethan + Jacques Jeff + Cosmin Josh + Jorge Bryan + Desmond + Michael Kelly + Courtney John C + Malthe Billy + Cristina Ethan + Cecilia Kay + Cosmin Stacie + Jacques Jeff + Jorge Bryan + Michael Kevin - BYE Josh - BYE Desmond - BYE John H - BYE
  • 23. #1 Factor for Happiness on the Job: Feeling appreciated -- 2014 BCG/The Network survey of 200K employees
  • 24. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityBuilding a culture of appreciation 1. Create a space for it 2. Lead by example
  • 25. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilityLast Reminder Stay on your side of the net: When you do [x]… I feel [y]… And my story is [z]. Can you tell me what’s going on for you? Use the Vocabulary of Emotions.
  • 26. Benefits of Self-Disclosure / VulnerabilitySuggested Topics For Feedback Work Product – Timeliness, quality, quantity, focus area Communication & Management – Too much/little – Choice of format – Email etiquette – Language choices, communication style with others – Transparency of project status, hiring/firing/promotions Role Modeling & Presence – What energy do you feel from this person? – How do they impact others? – What do they model well? – Anything you worry about? – Arrival/departure times – How they speak/listen/act/dress
  • 27. Thanks, good-bye, and stay on your side of the net 

Editor's Notes

  1. who are we lucky to be part of a team that took this stuff seriously (communication & culture) fortunate to be involved in the early part of a company that was well run and had a successful exit and was the founder of a company that may or may not have been well run, but didn't have a successful exit
  2. ***feelings & emotions music has treble and clef 1. if you only have cognition and words without feelings, you don't have the full score, the full story 2. most of the time, people are "leaky" -- however they are feeling, they are emoting non-verbally. incongruence btwn words v behavior comes at the expense of credibility. therefore want congruence (so you dont want *only* thoughts or *only* feelings -- you want to communicate both) 3. "there's no room for feelings in business" -- is inspiring pple important in business? how do you inspire people without making them feel something?  important for motivation  Suppressing leads to lack of congruence – we are leaky.
  3. I’d like everyone to pause for a moment.  In your 2-min introduction, think about what you chose to say… and what you chose not to say. Out of your entire life – your past, your future, your personal life, your hobbies, everything there is to know about you as a person…  what did you choose to share.  Why? pause  What decisions did you make about what was relevant or interesting or safe to share with this person in this context? Now you’re going to introduce yourself again… and this time I want you to step outside of your comfort zone and share something you didn’t the first time. Imagine my hand on your back gently encouraging you to challenge yourself a bit.
  4. “…highest-performing managers show more warmth and fondness towards others than do the bottom 25%. They get closer to people, they’re significantly more open in sharing thoughts and feelings than their low-performing counterparts. Note that they also scored high on “thinking” and a need to have power and influence over others, but that didn’t distinguish them from the bottom quartile.
  5. 1:21- 1:21
  6. Why is feedback scary? Might hurt person’s feelings if they knew how I feel? If I tell them how I really feel, they might tell me how they really feel?
  7. I’d like everyone to pause for a moment.  In your 2-min introduction, think about what you chose to say… and what you chose not to say. Out of your entire life – your past, your future, your personal life, your hobbies, everything there is to know about you as a person…  what did you choose to share.  Why? pause  What decisions did you make about what was relevant or interesting or safe to share with this person in this context? Now you’re going to introduce yourself again… and this time I want you to step outside of your comfort zone and share something you didn’t the first time. Imagine my hand on your back gently encouraging you to challenge yourself a bit.
  8. I’d like everyone to pause for a moment.  In your 2-min introduction, think about what you chose to say… and what you chose not to say. Out of your entire life – your past, your future, your personal life, your hobbies, everything there is to know about you as a person…  what did you choose to share.  Why? pause  What decisions did you make about what was relevant or interesting or safe to share with this person in this context? Now you’re going to introduce yourself again… and this time I want you to step outside of your comfort zone and share something you didn’t the first time. Imagine my hand on your back gently encouraging you to challenge yourself a bit.
  9. I’d like everyone to pause for a moment.  In your 2-min introduction, think about what you chose to say… and what you chose not to say. Out of your entire life – your past, your future, your personal life, your hobbies, everything there is to know about you as a person…  what did you choose to share.  Why? pause  What decisions did you make about what was relevant or interesting or safe to share with this person in this context? Now you’re going to introduce yourself again… and this time I want you to step outside of your comfort zone and share something you didn’t the first time. Imagine my hand on your back gently encouraging you to challenge yourself a bit.
  10. Feedback is scary, we’re sharing new information with someone that might change their understanding of their behavoural landscape, of our relationship, of themselves. So we need to talk a bi about threat response. In our next workshop, which doesn’t exist yet, we’re going to go more deeply into how it turns out these brains of ours actually work and what that implies for interpersonal relationships in general and startup life. But for now, the quick thing to know is that most higher order reasoning, executive function, empathy and social relationship, all exists in a thin layer on top of what is basically a reptilian brain. And that reptilian brain basically sits there asking the question over and over again – am I safe? Am I safe? And if the answer is yes, it sort of allows higher order things to happen. But if it detects a threat, it seizes control and we experience a threat response: We often call this the body gets ready for fight or flight. powerful cascade of physical cognitive and emotional responses to perceived danger. Blood flow to the core, adrenaline rush, sweaty palms, tight chest, cognitive capacity goes down, creativity goes down. Monitoring my level of fear is basically the top thing I do as a person to try to be my best self.
  11. If an objective 3rd party jury was able to tell you that 50% of the feedback was correct and 50% was not, you have a choice about where to focus. Our suggestion is to spend 90% of your attention on the part that’s correct. The only opportunity in the part that’s not correct is in the possiblity of delicately correction an incorrect assumption. In the part that is true is a double benefit – improve the relationship, make the person feel heard In the part that isn’t true there’s a lot of risk: person doesn’t feel heard (risk to the relationship), miss an opportunity to learn, defensiveness, a fight, etc (75% risk)
  12. Setting the Context for Feedback Groundrules Discussion (What groundrules would help me be an effective participant in giving and receiving feedback)   Organize folks so that each person has two people they work with/know well Give them time to plan feedback with each Bring them back and do “speed dating” format feedback– two rounds so that every person has done it twice Facilitator calls out time for switching "Second conversation" about feedback