Navigating Change (Live)

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is your organization going through some big shifts? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Katie Burke, the chief people officer of HubSpot. They talk through what to do when you’re ready to move up but there’s no one to take over your role, you’re expected to work on too many projects with too little support, or layoffs are happening but your boss isn't giving you more responsibility.

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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.
0:32.9	Today we're talking about navigating change in front of a live audience at Inbound, a conference
0:37.9	put on by HubSpot.
0:39.5	Our guest is Katie Burke.
0:41.2	Katie's the company's chief people officer.
0:43.3	Katie, thanks for coming on.
0:44.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:45.3	I'm so delighted to chat with you too.
0:47.3	Now when you started out at HubSpot, it was a small Boston company.
0:51.3	Now it's a large, publicly traded, global company. You've seen a lot of change.
0:56.2	Why do people have such a hard time adapting to change at work? I think change is hard for any human
1:03.3	beings. It just so happens that work is a laboratory in which all that human change tends to
1:08.1	take place. The other thing that I always come back to is that work is personal for people.
1:11.6	And so often change results in people being pushed into roles they don't want to be in
1:16.6	or being thrust into roles they're not ready for.
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