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Managing Intense Stress at Work

7 Nov 2024

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Science-backed tips for managing stress at work.

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How Do I Move Forward from a Career Setback? | Coaching Real Leaders

12 Jul 2023

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He experienced early success and a fast promotion at his organization, but then things started to shift. Now, there have been leadership changes, and his scope of responsibilities has changed, making him feel like his career is backsliding. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how he can reframe the situation and prioritize what he wants from his career going forward.

Further reading:
- What Great Managers Do: https://hbr.org/2005/03/what-great-managers-do
- How to Handle a Demotion at Work: https://www.roberthalf.com/blog/salaries-and-skills/how-to-cope-with-a-demotion-at-work
- 15 Warning Signs Your Job Isn’t The Right Fit For You: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/10/15/15-warning-signs-your-job-isnt-the-right-fit-for-you/?sh=44dfcf931f33
- How to Figure Out What You Want Next in Your Career: https://hbr.org/2021/12/how-to-figure-out-what-you-want-next-in-your-career

This episode originally aired on Coaching Real Leaders on June 19, 2023.

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- HBR.org (transcript available here): https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/06/how-do-i-move-forward-from-a-career-setback
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Series Description:
We all want to get to the next level of our career, but so many of us get stuck. Longtime leadership coach Muriel Wilkins takes you inside real-life leadership coaching sessions with high performers working to overcome professional challenges and grow as leaders. Listen in on real conversations and leave with new insights and practical guidance for your own career.

The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.

About Harvard Business Review:
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Learn more at www.hbr.org.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
1:55 – Being at a Low Point in the Current Role
10:00 – How to Move Forward
20:33 – What Could’ve Been Done Differently?
31:51 – Who Am I – and IC or a Manager?
40:26 – Your Truth Can Change
51:03 – Outro

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The Explainer: 4 Signs That Masculinity Contests Are Holding Back Your Company

6 Aug 2019

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For example, extreme hours are a badge of honor.
(Animated by Francesca Cattaneo)

Recent exposés have revealed seemingly dysfunctional workplaces rife with misconduct, bullying, and sexual harassment. Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? Research identifies an underlying cause: what we call a “masculinity contest culture.” This kind of culture endorses winner-take-all competition, where winners demonstrate stereotypically masculine traits such as emotional toughness, physical stamina, and ruthlessness. It produces organizational dysfunction, as employees become hyper competitive to win.

Four masculine norms, which together define masculinity contest culture, emerged as highly correlated with each other and with organizational dysfunction:

“Show no weakness”: a workplace that demands swaggering confidence, never admitting doubt or mistakes, and suppressing any tender or vulnerable emotions (“no sissy stuff”).
“Strength and stamina”: a workplace that prizes strong or athletic people (even in white collar work) or those who show off their endurance (e.g., by working extreme hours).
“Put work first”: a workplace where nothing outside the organization (e.g., family) can interfere with work, where taking a break or a leave represents an impermissible lack of commitment.
“Dog eat dog”: a workplace filled with ruthless competition, where “winners” (the most masculine) focus on defeating “losers” (the less masculine), and no one is trusted.

When masculinity contest cultures become “the way business gets done,” both organizations and the people within them suffer. Your organization may have a masculinity contest culture if, for example, expressing doubt is forbidden, “jocks” are preferred even though athleticism is irrelevant to job tasks, extreme hours are viewed as a badge of honor, or coworkers are treated as competitors rather than colleagues. Solving the problem requires meaningful commitment to culture change — to creating a work environment in which mission takes precedence over masculinity.

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The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 6: Transformation

7 Aug 2023

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Great coaching is about developing care and trust with those you lead, but also pushing them--hard--towards greatness. It's a difficult balance, but when done right it leads to transformation.

00:00 Players often say the great coaches are the ones who have transformed them.
00:47 Challenging and supporting at the same time
02:15 Getting to really know your team members
03:42 Putting this into a business context

Hosted by Ranjay Gulati, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of "Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies".

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Understanding the Economic Shock of the Covid-19 Crisis

21 May 2020

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Predicting the path ahead has become nearly impossible, but we can speculate about the size and scale of the economic shock.

Economic contagion is now spreading as fast as Covid-19 itself. Social distancing, intended to physically disrupt the spread, has severed the flow of goods and people, stalled economies, and is in the process of delivering a global recession. Predicting the path ahead has become nearly impossible, as multiple dimensions of the crisis are unprecedented and unknowable. Pressing questions include the path of the shock and recovery, whether economies will be able to return to their pre-shock output levels and growth rates, and whether there will be any structural legacy from the coronavirus crisis. This Explainer explores several scenarios to model the size and scale of the economic shock and the path ahead.

Based on the HBR article by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Martin Reeves and Paul Swartz

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