what should a salary negotiation sound like? by Alison Green on April 18, 2018 This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, I talk to a guest who’s wondering about salary negotiation — how to do it, what to say, and what kind of tone to use. This episode is 18 minutes long, and here’s the letter: I would really appreciate a good in-depth lesson on negotiating salaries. I […] Listen to the podcast →
am I a mansplainer? by Alison Green on April 11, 2018 This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, we talk about mansplaining! “Mansplaining” = the weirdly frequent phenomenon where a man gives a woman an unrequested explanation of something that she has more expertise on than he does. It was coined in an essay by a woman who described how a man at a party kept condescendingly explaining her own […] Listen to the podcast →
some podcast bonus content by Alison Green on April 5, 2018 My whole conversation with Jennifer Peepas of the Captain Awkward advice blog didn’t make it into this week’s podcast episode because we talked for a while and I keep the show pretty short. But I thought people might enjoy hearing a little more of our conversation — especially because we talk about an infamous letter from this […] Listen to the podcast →
I talked with Captain Awkward on the Ask a Manager podcast by Alison Green on April 4, 2018 On this week’s episode of the Ask a Manager podcast, I talked with the amazing Jennifer Peepas, who runs the very useful Captain Awkward advice website, which has amazing advice on pretty much every relationship in your life. We answered a letter from a Captain Awkward reader — someone who thought she was helping out an unfairly maligned coworker but […] Listen to the podcast →
do I like bad bosses? by Alison Green on March 28, 2018 This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, I talk with a caller who has found that she responds differently to her managers than most of her peers do – and she’s wondering what that might mean about her. You can listen to our discussion on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or Anchor (or here’s the direct RSS […] Listen to the podcast →
I interviewed Gretchen Rubin about happiness and work by Alison Green on March 21, 2018 On this week’s episode of the Ask a Manager podcast, I talked with happiness expert Gretchen Rubin about happiness and work. Gretchen is a leading expert on the connections between habits, happiness, and human nature, and is author of multiple bestselling books, including The Happiness Project and, most recently, The Four Tendencies. We talked about […] Listen to the podcast →
my employee works from home too much by Alison Green on March 14, 2018 This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, I talk with a manager who gives her staff a lot of flexibility when it comes to working from home, and she’s concerned one employee is using that flexibility in a way that isn’t quite working for their team. Here’s the letter she sent to me, and you […] Listen to the podcast →
my coworker leans on us for help way too much by Alison Green on March 7, 2018 This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, I talk with a caller whose coworker won’t stop asking for help with her job — help that she shouldn’t need. Here’s the letter she sent to me, and you can listen to our discussion about it on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or Anchor (or here’s the direct […] Listen to the podcast →
podcast: I’m still training my replacement three months after I left by Alison Green on February 28, 2018 Episode 2 of the Ask a Manager podcast is here! You can listen to it above or at Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or Anchor (or here’s the direct RSS feed). This week, I talk with a caller who is still training her replacement — three months after leaving her job. Here’s the letter she sent […] Listen to the podcast →
listen to episode 1 of the Ask a Manager podcast by Alison Green on February 22, 2018 I’m excited to announce today’s launch of the Ask a Manager podcast, from Anchor FM and Penguin Random House. You can listen to the first episode above or on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Anchor FM. Please subscribe! (Those links will take you straight to it.) Each week, I’ll bring letter-writers on the show to talk […] Listen to the podcast →