Siqi's Interpersonal Dynamics Workshop

Siqi Chen shares a story about conducting a condensed version of Stanford's interpersonal dynamics workshop with his team.

"Just last week we had an on-site, and I was able to do a mini version of this with our customer success team. We sat and I did a very condensed version of this lecture, and then we just talked for about four hours. The amount of closeness people got, insight people got, was transformative.

You wouldn't normally sit around for a couple hours in a work setting talking about your feelings. It's very uncomfortable to do so, and it's intentionally so. It's very uncomfortable for the first couple of hours - in the case of a real life workshop, it's half a day. In our case, we had to speed run it, and it was uncomfortable for about an hour, but then people were really into it.

It's weird, but everyone at some point was crying about some disclosure that they heard or they've experienced. As a result, the team got so much closer and the trust increased."