Podcast Release: Do You Need To Ask For Help More?

Do You Need To Ask For Help More? Dr. Wayne Baker in ‘Making Positive Psychology Work’ Podcast with Michelle McQuaid

McQuaid is a best-selling author, wellbeing teacher and research in positive psychology, neuroscience, and business success.

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In This Podcast You’ll Learn:

[03:15] – Wayne explains why being a good giver-requester at work shapes our success and wellbeing in workplaces.

[04:29] – Wayne outlines how his research on giver-requesters intersects with the research of Professor Adam Grant on being successful self-protective givers.

[06:07] – Wayne shares what the research is finding on how gender influences our ability to ask for help at work.

[06:57] – Wayne offers insights on how age and power influence our ability to ask for help at work.

[08:39] – Wayne outlines how psychological safety in our workplaces influences our ability to ask for help at work and what we can do to improve this

[10:34] – Wayne outlines the SMART criteria to make it easier to ask for help at work and for people to say yes.

[13:12] – Wayne shares his free assessment tool to measure your ability to ask for help and shares the findings surfacing from this new research.

[14:54] – Wayne shares the barriers that make it difficult for most people to ask for help at work and how we can overcome these.

[18:01] – Wayne shares why researchers are finding that you should ask people more than once for help.

[19:06] – Wayne provides some plug and play routines that workplaces can use to help make asking for help easier.

[20:34] – Wayne shares how we can map the energy for asking and giving within our teams to measure what is unfolding.

[21:23] – Wayne explains how mini-games can be used to playfully incentivize a group to ask for help to solve a problem together.

[23:22] – Wayne offers some tips to help recruit and reward leaders who are chief help seekers.

[24:50] – Wayne offers two cautions about asking for help at work.

[26:28] – Wayne completes the Lightning Round.



Harvard Students Learn to Give and Take

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The Harbus News relays story about the 2019 MBA Program kick-off featuring a new addition for first year MBA students - Reciprocity Rings. The Reciprocity Ring is one of the tools featured in ‘All You Have To Do Is Ask.’ The Harvard MBA program took on the exercise to build high-quality connections between students during the second day of class. Harvard MBAs found the Reciprocity Ring to be beneficial not only for getting help themselves, but also for getting to know new classmates. “It was an interesting psychological bridge-building exercise. You learn a lot about people, not just based on where they worked or are from, but on what they request. Their request speaks to their personality or the types of hobbies that they would like to bring to campus.”


Podcast Released! Inside Personal Growth | Benefits of Asking for Help at Work

Greg Voisen hosts Wayne Baker on Inside Personal Growth. Greg is an author and thought leader in human potential. Voisen and Baker discuss the benefits of asking and note several benefits, including:

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1) Higher job performance and satisfaction

2) New-hire success 

3) Finding jobs – or talent for job openings

4) Learning and professional development

5) Creativity and Innovation

6) Managing Stress 

7) Team performance

8) Cost reduction — just to name a few benefits