All the Help We Can Get

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Women, Business, Gender, Progress, Careers, Harvard, Business/management, Equality, Resources, Management, Workplace, Hbr, Human, Business/entrepreneurship, Business/careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Women don’t always feel entitled to ask for help at work — even when we need it the most. But Heidi Grant says asking has psychological benefits for you and your colleagues. She explains how to approach your request strategically and why lending a hand to others can be good for you too.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:23.0	slash women at work.
0:25.0	Emily, what kind of help have you been needing or asking for lately?
0:31.0	Like can you remember a time in the past few weeks that you've needed help and asked for it?
0:35.0	Hmm, that's a good question.
0:38.0	So I feel like it has been hard for me to wrap my mind around the help that I've needed lately.
0:45.0	I can't always think of specific things that I can ask people for and I don't feel like I normally ask for help if I need it and I also feel like I never say no if
0:58.0	somebody asks me for help and I like helping people and so I think I should give people the, like, the pleasure of being able to help me sometimes too, but it is hard for me sometimes to even
1:11.0	figure out what I can push off my plate or how I can get somebody else to help.
1:16.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:22.0	I'm Amy Bernstein. I'm Emily
1:24.2	Callfield and I'm Amy Gallo. So many obstacles can come in the way of us
1:29.3	asking for help at work. Whenever I'm hesitating I push through my discomfort by reminding
1:35.4	myself that people want to help one another. It's human nature. Plus getting
1:40.3	cooperation and support from colleagues is how people perform better, develop faster, and progress in their careers.
1:47.0	I've learned that from our guest, Heidi Grant, a social psychologist who specializes in the science of motivation.
1:54.0	Her book Reinforcements is about all the good that comes from asking for
1:59.0	and giving help at work.
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