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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Do you wish you were more plugged-in at your organization? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School. They talk through what to do when you want to network at a company retreat, your manager is bothered by your schmoozing with their peers, or you want to know about plum projects before they get assigned to someone else.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.5	Today we're talking about networking in your organization with Robin Abrams.
0:36.7	She's a research associate at Harvard Business School and the author of the advice column, Misconduct, in the Boston Globe magazine.
0:43.2	Robin, thanks for coming in the show. Thank you. It's a delight to be here. So when we think of networking, we think of etiquette, we think of anxiety. Are these the kind of topics that often come up in your column? People hate the word networking. They really do. And everybody says that they're bad at it as
0:59.4	though that were like a real badge of honor. Especially when you're doing it within your own company,
1:05.6	it can feel political and sometimes overly political. And I think the problem is that people get very much wrapped up
1:13.1	in the idea you scratch my back.
1:16.7	I scratch yours.
1:18.3	But it's not.
1:20.2	There is nothing wrong with going to appear and say,
1:23.8	hey, you give great PowerPoint presentations.
1:27.2	I'm kind of terrible at it. Would you, can I have just like, buy you lunch, hey, you give great PowerPoint presentations. I'm kind of terrible at it.
1:28.7	Would you, can I just, like, buy you lunch, spend two hours with me and, like, teach me
1:33.4	what you know that makes you so much better?
1:36.3	Yeah, you're making a great point that networking isn't just about reaching out to people
1:39.6	above you.
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