How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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122: Nourishing Good Habits and Attitudes with Eric Zimmer (Host of The One You Feed podcast) Feb 24, 2017

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Fellow podcaster Eric Zimmer shares how you can nourish your “good wolf” to help you reach optimal performance at work. You'll Learn: Pro-tips for wisely allocating your time and energy among all the roles you play An effective way to sustain your good habits, when you feel like quitting How being more yourself at work can help you be more awesome at your job About Eric Eric Zimmer is the host of a podcast called The One You Feed. It was named a Best of 2014 podcast by iTunes and has gotten over a million and a half downloads to date. He’s been helping build startup companies for 15 years, been involved in technology for longer than that. Recently he has been doing e-commerce consulting for Fortune 500 companies. He started a solar energy company, Tipping Point. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep122 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

121: Smart Emotional Calibration with Dr. Nicole Lipkin Feb 22, 2017

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Dr. Nicole Lipkin outlines the factors that derail you from optimal performance at the workplace and the mindset to overcome them.

You’ll Learn:

Three common emotional derail-ers of success
How technology is hurting your wellbeing
Approaches to cultivating the growth mindset

About Nicole

Dr. Nicole Lipkin is an organizational psychologist, coach and keynote speaker. She is the CEO of Equilibria Leadership Consulting. Nicole is the author of What Keeps Leaders Up At Night and the co-author of Y in the Workplace: Managing the “Me First” Generation. Nicole is a regular contributor to the broadcast community and has been featured on NPR, NBC, CBS, Fox Business News, New York Times Magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, Forbes, and numerous other media outlets both nationally and internationally.

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Website: www.equilibrialeadership.com
Blog posts: How to Torture Your Boss…and…How to Torture Your Employees
Book: What Keeps Leaders Up at Nightby Nicole Lipkin
Book: Mindset by Carol Dweck
Tool: Google Boomerang

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120: Are there 9 Types of Leaders? Exploring the Enneagram with Dr. Beatrice Chestnut Feb 17, 2017

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Dr. Beatrice Chestnut discusses how using the Enneagram can help build an understanding yourself and the personality types of people you work with.

You’ll Learn:

What is the Enneagram and how it aids in understanding people
Why 9 is the Enneagram’s key number
Key practices for developing emotional intelligence

About Beatrice

Beatrice Chestnut, PhD MA is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco. She has a PhD in communication studies, and an MA in clinical psychology. She is the author of the books, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, and The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st century Workplace and was President of the International Enneagram Association from 2006-2007. She offers trainings on the Enneagram internationally, focusing on using it as a tool for personal transformation.

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Website: beatricechestnut.com
Human Personality Model: Enneagram
Book: The 9 Types of Leadership by Beatrice Chestnut
Book: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Warner-Klemp
Book: The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership by Peter Hawkins
Book: Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney
Test: Integrative Enneagram Questionnaire

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119: Build Your Grit, Achieve Your Goal with Linda Kaplan-Thaler Feb 15, 2017

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Linda Kaplan-Thaler shares how you can turn up your GRIT factor to better put in the hard work needed to achieve success.

You’ll Learn:

Why hard work trumps genius
The GRIT framework for reaching success
The research-based 30-minute rule that gritty winners follow

About Linda

Advertising Hall of Famer Linda Kaplan Thaler is responsible for some of America’ s most famous and award-winning advertising campaigns, including the Aflac duck and the hilarious “Yes, Yes, Yes” commercials for Clairol Herbal Essences. She has composed jingles that are among the industry’s gold standard, including “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, I’m a Toys ‘ R’ Us Kid,” and “Kodak Moments.”

Today, Linda is a renowned motivational speaker and is President of Kaplan Thaler Productions. Linda is also a nationally acclaimed author and, together with Robin Koval, their newest bestseller, “GRIT to GREAT,” was ranked one of the top business books for 2015.

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Website: www.kaplanthalerproductions.com
Book: Grit to Greatby Linda Kaplan-Thaler and Robin Koval
Book: The Power of Niceby Linda Kaplan-Thaler and Robin Koval
Book: The Power of Small by Linda Kaplan-Thaler and Robin Koval
Book: When Breath Becomes Airby Paul Kalanithi
App: Evernote

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118: Constructive Confrontation with Jathan Janove Feb 13, 2017

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Employee engagement expert/lawyer Jathan Janove shares hard-won wisdom in the management trenches. You'll Learn: How to breach difficult conversations with constructive confrontational questions The step-by-step to a win-win conversation The MIDAS touch method to making golden apologies About Jathan Having previously spent 25 years litigating workplace relationships that turned toxic, Jathan now works with employers as an organization development consultant, executive coach and trainer to improve leadership, trust, accountability, retention and employee engagement. He’s also an award-winning, internationally published author whose latest book is Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep118 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

117: Making the Workplace More Human with Liz Ryan Feb 10, 2017

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Career advisor Liz Ryan explores how the workplace has gone off the rails, how to connect with employers with a pain letter, and give your resume a human voice.

You’ll Learn:

Roadblocks that get in between creative people and their goals
Why you should throw that performance review framework out of the window
What’s a pain letter and why it will help you land your next job

About Liz

Liz Ryan is among the world’s most widely- read career advisors and CEO/Founder of Human Workplace, a think tank and publishing firm whose mission is to reinvent work for people.

Liz was SVP of HR for U.S. Robotics during its rise from $15M to $2.5B in annual sales. Liz was also CEO and Founder of WorldWIT, the world’s largest online community for professional women, before founding Human Workplace in 2012 to reinvent work for people. Liz writes for Forbes.com, LinkedIn and many other publications and is a sought after international keynote speaker.

Her new book is called Reinvention Roadmap: Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and the Career You Deserve

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Website: Human Workplace
Book: Reinvention Roadmap: Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and the Career You Deserveby Liz Ryan
Book: The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
Book: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Book: The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

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116: Achieving More with Less Resources with Scott Sonenshein Feb 08, 2017

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Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein proposes a change in mindset when it comes to constraints and stretching resources and getting more with less.

You’ll Learn:

Principles behind the “Myth of More” and the “Power of Less”
Why experts are over-rated
The four keys of an effective stretching mindset

About Scott

Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University. His award winning research, teaching, and consulting has helped Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals in a variety of industries. He holds a PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a strategy consultant for companies such as AT&T and Microsoft and lived the rise and fall of the dotcom boom while working at a Silicon Valley startup.

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Book: Stretch by Scott Sonenshein
Book: Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Book: The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Website: http://www.scottsonenshein.com/

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115: Building Systems for Winning at Work with Geoff Blades Feb 06, 2017

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Geoff Blades lays down the framework and mindset for achieving success in your career and in life.

You’ll Learn:

How to convert difficult questions into a process towards answering them
Dos and don’ts to discovering what “awesome at your job” TRULY means for you
5 principles for winning at your career

(Also, apologies on my sound quality. I apparently failed to switch to my good microphone. 1st time out of 115 episodes that happened…)

About Geoff

Geoff is a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and investor at the Carlyle Group. He is an author and advisor to senior Wall Street executives, CEOs, and other leaders on all topics related to getting what they want in their businesses, careers, and lives.

In addition to working one-on-one and with groups, through newsletters, books, and videos he strives to serve more and more people in doing what they want. He’s the author of Do What You Want: A Career Guide for Professionals Serious About Winning.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

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Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Book: Do What You Want: A Career Guide for Professionals Serious About Winning by Geoff Blades
Book: The Trump Presidential Playbook: A Wizard’s Path to the White House by Geoff Blades
Website: GeoffBlades.com

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114: Delivering Powerful Feedback for Powerful Results with Alan Willett Feb 03, 2017

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Alan Willett discusses optimal approaches to giving feedback and other means of making powerful improvements in your team. You'll Learn: What makes some employees “unleadable” and how to lead them Why people are afraid to give feedback – and how to overcome it How a two minute conversation can transform everything About Alan Alan Willett is of the rare species who is an expert international consultant, speaker, and author. He has worked with companies ranging from 1 person to some of the giants such as Microsoft and NASA. Alan says that his passion is helping people and organizations transform their friction points into profit points. What is a friction point? It is the space where the business needs Meet the implementation reality — in that space there is always heat generated! Alan is the expert who transforms that heat to innovation and results for the business and the people. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep114 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

113: How to Get Promoted Fast AND Make Your Employees Love You with Jamie Newman Feb 01, 2017

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Fellow career podcaster Jamie Newman describes what a great manager looks like, how to get top performers to stay, and how employees and managers can work together to achieve professional and personal goals together. You'll Learn: 5 things to do if you want a promotion Why good employees leave How meaningful goal-setting builds tremendous loyalty About Jamie Jamie Newman is a management professional, trainer, and coach through YourBestManager.com which is an online resource designed to help top performers become managers and help first-time managers learn how to build and lead effective teams. Prior to Your Best Manager, Jamie spent 8 years with a major recruiting & consulting firm where he had the opportunity to work with hundreds of companies from mid-market firms through Fortune 100 companies. He’s advised business leaders, from front-line supervisors to senior executives, on who to hire, how to hire and how to manage performance. It’s through this experience that he’s been exposed to a variety of management styles and uncovered what works… and what doesn’t, when it comes to leading people. Jamie also hosts the Your Best Manager podcast where he interviews leadership experts and provides practical advice for first-time managers. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep113 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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