#165 How to speak up at work with Megan Reitz

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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For the 4th episode of our Setting Yourself Up for Success series, Helen talks to author, researcher and professor Megan Reitz about speaking up at work. Together they discuss why speaking-up feels hard and how our conversational habits can hold us back. They talk through the TRUTH framework Megan has developed to understand what gets in the way of speaking up and how to overcome challenges and Megan also shares the importance of managers being prepared to 'listen-up' to what is being said. For more on Megan's work, head to: https://www.meganreitz.com/ You can buy her book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speak-Up-what-needs-heard/dp/1292263016 For everything else Squiggly Careers related, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen. I'm one half of the normal
0:08.6	Squiggly Careers podcast team. The other half Sarah is on holiday. She's abandoned me. And so I've
0:14.0	decided to replace her temporarily at least with five brilliant guests. So we've dedicated
0:19.0	this week to the topic of setting yourself up for success.
0:22.5	And we've invited five people onto the podcast who are all talking through a skill that they've got
0:28.3	a particular amount of experience and expertise in to share with us how we can build those skills.
0:34.0	So, so far, we have had Marcus Buckingham on the topic of strengths. We've had Bianca
0:39.3	Mill and Cole talking to us about how to build your personal brand. We have had Alex Pang,
0:45.1	who's been talking to us about the power of rest and how you can fit it into your days,
0:49.4	even when your days might seem very busy and demanding. And today I'm going to be talking to Megan
0:54.7	writes all about how you can speak truth to power and speak up at work with confidence.
1:01.9	Megan is an executive coach, a researcher and also an author. And all of her work is
1:07.6	dedicated to exploring and finding ways to improve the ways in which we interact with
1:13.0	each other in the workplace. And her research on speaking truth to power has been featured in
1:18.3	four articles in Harvard Business Review. It's the subject of a TED talk and also has informed
1:23.4	the book, speak up, say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard. And in the conversation
1:29.1	that you'll hear that Megan and I have today, we talk about conversational habits. And when I
1:34.7	listen back, I thought about these is almost like talking traps. There are things that stop you
1:38.8	from speaking up, some of the habits that we fall into that mean that we aren't able to say what
1:43.9	we really want to. And so we talk about some of those habits and how they into that mean that we aren't able to say what we really want to.
1:45.0	And so we talk about some of those habits and how they hold us back.
1:47.3	We also talk about a really practical way of assessing your speak up culture.
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