Episode 165: Yes, You Can Negotiate During Covid

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Now may not seem like the best time to ask for what you want at work, whether that's more money, a new title, or more time off. Everyone's under stress and putting in extra hours, right? But this situation isn't ending any time soon. And you may be about to burn out. So why NOT ask for what you want and need?

In this episode we meet negotiation coach Fotini Iconomopoulos. We talk about her background as a child of Greek immigrants and what that taught her about advocating for herself. And we discuss how women in particular can stop their empathy getting in the way of reaching their goals. Because you can improve your situation, even during tough times.

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0:00.0	Better Help Online Therapy bought this 30 second ad to remind you right now, wherever you are, to unclench your jaw.
0:10.8	Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out.
0:20.3	Feels better, right?
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0:30.5	for 10% off your first month of therapy.
0:33.8	No pressure.
0:35.0	Just help.
0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:37.8	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:56.2	This time, many of us are working like mad during this pandemic, but are we asking for what we want
1:03.4	and need at work? Is now an okay time to ask? Because everybody's under stress, because my company
1:10.2	laid off a bunch of people because
1:11.6	the company's not doing well because I'm worried that they're going to get upset with me.
1:16.5	Getting what you want in difficult times. Coming up on the broad experience.
1:37.9	As I think about what's happening to women's careers right now, one of the things I've been thinking about in particular is negotiation.
1:42.1	At the best of times, a lot of women are reluctant to negotiate.
1:47.4	Asking for something for ourselves goes against the way so many of us have been socialized.
1:57.5	In a time like this, I am pretty sure that if I were working for an organization, I would be held back by all the usual things.
2:02.6	Like not wanting to make a nuisance of myself at a terrible time, seeing things from the company's perspective. And yet I know from past work I've done on this topic that
2:08.6	people can negotiate successfully pretty much any time. I wanted to talk to someone about how
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