Sisterhood Is Trust

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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

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🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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High-quality relationships with other women at work, and the productivity and creativity those connections bring, are built on trusting one another with our emotions. Two researchers share findings from their recent survey about emotional vulnerability in the workplace. Guests: Beth Livingston and Tina Opie. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
0:06.0	In their programs, experience the power of fresh perspectives and connect with a world of new ideas.
0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS.
0:20.0	M.E. slash work.
0:22.0	The idea of shared sisterhood is we can. work.
0:22.7	The idea of shared sisterhood is we can't empower one another, we can't lift each other up if we can't
0:28.3	show our true emotion to one another. If we can't be honest that hey what you said hurt me or I'm
0:33.8	dealing with this or I'm frustrated or I'm sad or I'm jubilant or I'm
0:39.4	proud or insecure and how can we truly reach empowerment and be our full
0:45.1	selves if we can't do that and I think that's what we're really trying to delve
0:50.0	deeper into. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:01.0	I'm Amy Gallo.
1:02.0	I'm Nicole Torres. And I'm Amy Gallo. I'm Nicole Torres and I'm Amy Bernstein. One of the themes we
1:06.1	keep returning to here is whether and how women support one another at work.
1:10.2	You may remember that last season we asked you to take a survey on workplace
1:14.4	relationships. The researchers behind that survey, Tina Opie and Beth
1:18.9	Livingston, are studying relationships among colleagues whose cultural identities differ by race
1:24.9	or nationality or social class or something else.
1:28.7	With the survey they were trying to learn who had high quality relationships, what made them possible, and how might managers
1:36.4	encourage those relationships to develop.
1:39.4	You see, deep and meaningful relationships at work matter.
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