Firings

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🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Is a recent firing weighing on you? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Susan David, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. They talk through what to do when your coworker has been wrongfully fired, your company has massive layoffs, or you’ve been fired.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.9	We can do something about them. That's where Dear HBR comes in. We take your questions about workplace dilemmas,
0:30.1	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:39.3	Joining us now to talk about the fallout from firings is Susan David.
0:43.5	She's a psychologist at Harvard Medical School.
0:46.0	Susan, thanks so much for being on the show.
0:47.9	Thanks for inviting me.
0:49.6	Susan, have you ever been fired?
0:51.4	I've never been fired, but I have left a job under circumstances in which I realize that
0:58.2	either I left the job or I probably was going to be fired.
1:01.6	And it was probably the most down experience in my career and also the most toxic experience
1:09.3	in my career.
1:10.3	As a psychologist, what do you think about when someone is fired in terms of the emotional
1:15.4	impact of that?
1:17.0	Firing is never easy for people, and there are a whole range of emotions that come up.
1:22.3	And I think the most important thing is to process the emotional experience in a way that allows it to become an
1:30.6	opportunity and a catalyst for some level of growth.
1:37.4	All right, well, we've got a lot of firings to get through today, so let's go to our first
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