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Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Both male and female managers tend to give women low-quality feedback. And when we don’t hear how we’re really doing at work and what we can do to improve — and men do — we’re put at a disadvantage. We talk about how to get high-quality feedback that is direct, specific, and focused on behavior we can change. Guests: Robin Ely and Ella Bell Smith.

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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.
0:18.0	M.E slash work.
0:23.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:29.0	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:33.8	I'm Nicole Torres.
0:34.9	And I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:36.4	Getting productive feedback about how we're doing at work
0:39.1	is vital to making progress in our careers.
0:42.0	But managers often don't give women the most useful
0:44.8	information. One study of performance reviews showed that men tended to get
0:49.5	specific feedback. Women, on the other hand, were more likely to get vague feedback.
0:55.0	Men were much likelier to hear about how they were meeting their business goals.
0:59.0	Women, how they were communicating.
1:02.0	This episode, we're talking about what we can do
1:04.9	to get the feedback we need to succeed.
1:07.3	And we'll start with the research roundup.
1:09.2	Robin Eelie is a professor at Harvard Business School
1:11.7	and the faculty chair of the
1:13.3	HBS Gender Initiative. She's an expert in how women are treated at work and I went to
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