How to Manage: Being Taken Seriously

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a woman who’s a new manager, people will probably push back on your authority. As difficult as defiance is to face—especially when you’re settling in yourself—we have ideas for making it clear that you’re in charge. McKinsey’s Lareina Yee recounts the actions that senior leaders took that affirmed her position. Kelsey reflects on the disrespect she felt as a first-time manager, as well as her discomfort with power, and Amy B helps her make sense of those experiences and feelings. If you manage a woman who’s a new manager, this episode is for you too!

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:25.6	So Amy B, what does being taken seriously at work mean to you?
0:34.7	What I would say it means is being trusted and respected in my role.
0:42.0	How about you?
0:43.0	What does it mean to you?
0:44.0	I think to me it's about being heard and being listened to and not having like your ideas
0:53.7	or decisions constantly questioned.
0:57.9	This is coming from a place of I'm thinking back to when I first became a manager and it
1:02.9	was so frustrating when I would delegate something or make a decision and then my direct reports
1:09.5	would wait until my boss weighed in or wouldn't complete a project that I gave them and just
1:15.3	didn't even bat an eye at the idea that they just weren't listening to me at all.
1:20.8	I mean that's incredibly painful and I'm having flashbacks to exactly the same kind
1:25.6	of experience when I first became a manager.
1:28.9	Like what?
1:29.9	Well, I remember being put in charge of a magazine section where my credibility was
1:37.0	questioned, why did I deserve that job?
1:39.8	I had people reporting to me who had been my peers and who were my friends, there were
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