Management Material

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Do you have what it takes to be a manager? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Ellen Van Oosten, a professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. They talk through what to do when you’ve been tapped for a managerial role but you don’t want it, you have only informal management experience on your CV, or your supervisor is blocking you from earning the title of manager.

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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,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.2	Today we're talking about managers in the making with Ellen Van Osten. She's a professor at the
0:37.3	Weatherhead School of
0:38.2	Management at Case Western Reserve University, and she's the co-author of the book, Helping People
0:43.0	Change, Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth. Ellen, thanks so much for being on the show.
0:48.9	Oh, thanks, Allison. It's really a joy to be with you and Dan today. So what does management material mean to you?
0:57.0	Management material to me is really about having what it takes to be effective and successful
1:05.4	in working with others.
1:07.2	The manager's role fundamentally is about being able to connect with people and lead them
1:15.9	to accomplish something. Is that phrase management material, kind of a loaded phrase, it suggests
1:23.2	almost a binary construction where either you are management material or you aren't management
1:28.7	material?
1:29.9	It can be perceived that way, Dan.
1:32.9	And I think in some cases, people like to think of it as a born manager.
1:39.9	All the research is that management material is the kind of thing that one can develop,
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