ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Forces at Work is the podcast that tackles your toughest workplace challenges and delivers practical advice to help you work smarter. Hosted by organizational psychologists (and longtime friends) Jake Tuber and Katharine Smith, each episode dives into topics like sham performance improvement plans, cringe-worthy hiring practices, awkward performance reviews, and more. Get ready to learn, gain fresh insights, and rethink the way you approach work.
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
21 minutes
Has sponsors
English
United States
8 episodes
since April 17, 2024
episodic
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Edgar is a product manager at a large tech company. For the last six months, he’s essentially been doing his manager's job, in addition to his own.
They’ll be in meetings and the manager will say things to like, “Edgar, I'm so glad you're here because I'm not good at leading this.” The prospect o…
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Lisa is CMO at a manufacturing company. She took over a small marketing department about 15 months ago, and was able to hire some new folks, but one of them turned out to be extremely toxic. Eventually he resigned, but after he left, he started a campaign to undermine her. He did weird things like …
Brendan is the Director of Product Development at a tech company. He's only three months into the job... but he thinks he made a big mistake. He's been shut out of certain discussions as a result of asking really questions about the product. There's some remote chance the company succeeds, but he d…
Charlene is the Chief Human Resources Officer at a professional services firm of about 400 employees. But she can't get anyone at her company to make a hiring decision. If she hears, "This person is just the right fit for us" one more time, she's going to tear her hair out. In this episode, Kate an…
Sarah is a client relations manager at a small branding and marketing agency in Boston. About five months ago, she got a new boss who quickly started giving her negative feedback and sitting in on her meetings. Now, without warning, he put her on a vaguely worded performance improvement plan with a…
Raven is a 36-year-old director of sales operations at a relatively small tech company. She recently got feedback from her CEO in a performance review that she’s crushing it at her job, but that one area of improvement would be to stop wearing t-shirts. This is at a relatively lax company where men…
Forces at Work is the podcast where we answer your burning questions about the workplace and give you advice so you can show up to work smarter tomorrow.
Jake Tuber and Katharine Smith are organizational psychologists, old friends... and at least one of those things is true.
Each episode we tackl…
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