Resignations

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Are you looking to quit your job? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of David Burkus, a management professor at Oral Roberts University. They talk through what to do when you want to call out a toxic employee in your resignation letter, reject a counteroffer, or resign without burning bridges.

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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.
0:15.6	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:23.6	We can do something about them. That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.6	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas,
0:30.6	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research,
0:34.6	we help you move forward.
0:41.3	Today we're talking about resignations with David Burkis.
0:46.2	He's a management professor at Oral Roberts University, and his new book about networking is called Friend of a Friend.
0:48.1	David, thanks for coming on the show.
0:50.0	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
0:51.5	People really do think a lot about this.
0:53.7	I mean, on the surface, quitting a job is pretty simple.
0:56.9	You can Google and find a template for how to do a resignation letter.
1:00.3	You give two weeks notice, cut and dried.
1:02.1	But there actually is a lot of complexity and drama to these situations.
1:06.5	Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing is that they involve relationships, right? I mean, when you look at people's anxiety, even about the letter, I think most of the time it's mostly a worry about how am I going to be remembered when I move on?
1:17.6	Most of the time, some people want to leave on bad terms.
1:20.6	But I want to make sure I want to leave on good terms so that I'm remembered well, so that opportunities continue to present themselves.
1:25.6	I think that creates a lot of the anxiety.
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