Getting People to Help You

HBR IdeaCast

• Episode: Getting People to Help You
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• Duration: 00:21:31
• Published: 2018-06-19 22:04

Heidi Grant, a social psychologist, explains the right ways and wrong ways to ask colleagues for help. She says people are much more likely to lend us a hand than we think they are; they just want it to be a rewarding experience. Grant is the author of “Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You.”