AMY GALLO: You’re listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review. I’m Amy Gallo.
Think back to your first job out of college. Mine was working as a program manager for a small nonprofit. And while I was incredibly organized and good at moving work forward, a skill I’d honed as an undergrad in those torturous group projects, I was also overconfident and unaware of the more nuanced skills I needed, like how to write an email that would get people to do what I wanted them to or how to relay a decision the executive director had made to my peers. I didn’t…
