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**How to Be Awesome at Your Job**

Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in *The New York Times*, *Forbes*, and *Linkedin Learning.* This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating.

Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier.

Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) Welcome!

Latest Episodes:

072: Unleashing Simplicity with Lisa Bodell Oct 14, 2016

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Lisa Bodell shares pro-tips on how to declutter our work lives to better focus on what truly matters.

You’ll Learn:

Tools to eliminate unnecessary complexity in the workplace
A methodology to reclaim 50% of your time spent in meetings
The optimal attitude that gets your bosses to notice and value you

About Lisa

Lisa Bodell serves as a global council member of the World Economic Forum; and has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at Bloomberg, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, and many others. She has been rated as a top speaker at Google’s client events and is the author of the best-selling book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, which won the 2014 Axiom Best Business Book Award and was voted Best Business Book by USA Book News and Booz & Co. Her new book, Why Simple Wins, releases October 2016. Lisa is an advisor on the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists; and Novartis’ Diversity and Inclusion Board in Basel, Switzerland. Among her many academic activities, Lisa has taught innovation and creativity at both American and Fordham Universities.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Book: Why Simple Wins by Lisa Bodell
Website: Future Think
Twitter: @LisaBodell
Book: Originals by Adam Grant

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071: Being the CEO of Your Own Career with Angela Copeland (Host of Copeland Coaching podcast) Oct 12, 2016

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Career coach Angela Copeland shows how to take charge and proactively, intentionally manage your career. You'll learn Warning signs that you’re under appreciated at your job and how to deal A simple, powerful way to highlight your progress and set yourself apart at work Effective interview tactics About Angela Angela Copeland is a career coach and CEO at her firm, Copeland Coaching. She is host of the Copeland Coaching Podcast, columnist for the Career Corner newspaper column, and author of career e-book Breaking The Rules & Getting The Job. Angela’s personal career background gives her the breadth to help job seekers with a variety of different needs, including finding the right job, interviewing, and offer negotiation. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep71 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

070: Upgrading Your Level of Service with Rebecca Morgan Oct 07, 2016

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Author Rebecca Morgan shares how you can provide the best service to your customers – internal and external.

You’ll Learn:

Overlooked tactics to better serve your customers
The step-by-step of calming upset customers
How to deal with workplace conflict

About Rebecca

Rebecca Morgan, CSP, CMC, is an international speaker, trainer and consultant specializing in creating innovative solutions for workplace effectiveness challenges. She’s appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and USA Today as well as international media.

Rebecca is the bestselling author of 26 books, including Calming Upset Customers, Grow Your Key Talent, Remarkable Customer Service … and Disservice and her just-released book, Extraordinary Leadership Lessons from Everyday People.

She partners with clients to accomplish high ROI on their key-talent development projects. Since 1980 she’s transformed executives, managers, salespeople and customer support staff into much more effective workplace contributors.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Website: www.rebeccamorgan.com
Book: Remarkable Customer Service… and Disservice by Rebecca Morgan
Book: Calming Upset Customers by Rebecca Morgan
Book: Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter
Book: Excuse Me, Your Life is Waitingby Lynn Grabhorn
Book: Extraordinary Leadership Lessons from Everyday People by Rebecca Morgan

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069: Winning Arguments while Winning Allies with Jay Heinrichs Oct 05, 2016

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Bestselling rhetorician Jay Heinrichs shows just how powerful and fun this ancient art can be. You'll learn How shifting tenses can ease tensions A huge tip from Donald Trump about speaking in 12-second periods The essential steps of making a persuasive argument About Jay Jay Heinrichs is the author of the bestselling book, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion. His most recent book, Word Hero, teaches how to craft memorable content. Combining tested tools of classical rhetoric with modern neuroscience, Jay has given presentations, workshops, and consults around the world. Jay has served clients including Southwest Airlines, NASA, the Pentagon, Walmart, Ogilvy UK, Mindshare, the National Association of Realtors, Harvard, Dartmouth, University of Virginia, Beachbody, and Kaiser Permanente.He maintains one of the leading language websites, Figarospeech.com, along with Arguelab.com.With more than 30 years in publishing as a writer, editor, and executive, Jay has written for several dozen publications, from The New York Times Magazine to Reader’s Digest. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep69 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

068: Performing like a Champion with Molly Fletcher Oct 03, 2016

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Molly Fletcher, the sports agent known as “the female Jerry Maguire,” shares key ingredients to stardom gleaned from her experience working with superstar athletes and business folk.

You’ll Learn:

Two key practices Molly sees in all her star athletes that make them great
The critical trait needed to maintaining strong workplace relationships
A simple trick to use in negotiations to make them less nerve-wracking and more successful

About Molly

Dubbed by CNN “the female Jerry Maguire,” Fletcher rose to the top of a male-dominated field to become a leading ($500 million lifetime contracts) sports agent with unique access to hundreds of successful athletes, coaches, and broadcasters across the sports of baseball, basketball, football, and more. Whether at the contract negotiation table with a team’s top brass or behind the scenes with her players, Fletcher is keenly positioned to spot patterns in peak performers. She’s the author of three books, founder of the Betterment institute, and a sought-after speaker.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Website: MollyFletcher.com
Book: The Business of Being the Bestby Molly Fletcher
Book: A Winner’s Guide to Negotiatingby Molly Fletcher
Coach: Tom Izzo
Coach: Doc Rivers
Golf teacher: Butch Harmon
Baseball pitcher: John Smoltz
Journalist: Jim Lehrer
Institute: Human Performance Institute
Author/speaker: Jon Gordon
Author/speaker: Patrick Lencioni
Author/speaker: Tim Ferriss
Author/speaker: Brené Brown
Book: On Target Livingby Chris Johnson
Author: Shawn Achor

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067: Sharpening Your Memory and Focus with Joanna Jast Sep 30, 2016

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Blogger Joanna Jast shares best practices for boosting your brain’s performance.

You’ll Learn:

The optimal surroundings for optimal productivity
Quick hacks for improving your focus
How our brains are wired to absorb information

About Joanna

Joanna Jast is the author of Laser-Sharp Focus and a top mental performance seeker. She uses her medical background and low-tolerance for fluff to find proven ways of accelerating learning and personal growth. Her mission is to help people achieve professional and educational success faster.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Website: Shape Shifters Club by Joanna Jast
Joanna on Quora
Book: Laser Sharp Focus by Joanna Jast
Book: Brain Rules by John Medina
Book: Getting Things Done by David Allen
Book: Smart Cuts by Shane Snow

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066: Galvanizing Professional Relationships with Patrick Galvin Sep 28, 2016

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“Chief Galvanizer” Patrick Galvin offers philosophies and pro-tips for building a powerful network.

You’ll Learn:

Approaches to asking great questions for relationship building
An overlooked social media tool that can epicly enrich your network
The benefits of developing a “methodology of gratitude”

About Patrick

Patrick Galvin, chief galvanizer of The Galvanizing Group, is a dynamic speaker and business coach who galvanizes audiences and inspires people to achieve big goals. He has received accolades for his speaking presentations to companies and associations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe covering a variety of marketing-related topics.

He’s the author of The Connector’s Way: A Story About Building Business One Relationship at a Time. Patrick teaches business professionals how to succeed using simple yet effective ways to cultivate relationships in the real world and online.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Website: patrickgalvin.com
Podcast: The Art of Likability by Arel Moodie
Book: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
Online greeting system: SendOutCards
Book: The Go-Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann
Book: The Face-to-Face Book by Brad Fay & Ed Keller
Book: Go for No by Andrea Waltz & Richard Fenton
App: Insight Timer
Software: Zoho CRM

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065: Super-Sizing Your Strengths with Lisa Cummings (Host of Lead Through Strengths podcast) Sep 26, 2016

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Strengths sleuth Lisa Cummings shows us how we can better leverage our strengths at work. You'll learn How focusing on your strengths can 6X your work engagement and 3X your quality of life Approaches to discovering strengths hiding right under your nose A clever trick to trade tasks and boost fun About Lisa Lisa Cummings is the Founder of Lead Through Strengths, brings 20 years of experience (and experiments) into this practice. She lives to help people find and leverage their strengths at work. Lisa has experience building strengths-based cultures both as a corporate executive and also from the academic side. She has an MBA and is a Certified Strengths Performance Coach with Gallup, Inc., the biggest catalysts for and analysts of the strengths revolution. She’s the host of the Lead Through Strengths podcast. Her top three talent themes are: Strategic | Maximizer | Positivity. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep65. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

064: Rewiring Your Brain with MJ Ryan Sep 23, 2016

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Executive coach MJ Ryan shows how to use mantras to retrain the brain to establish better habits and responses.

You’ll Learn:

How to identify unconscious behaviors and what to do to overcome them
The worst mental habit in the workplace to break right away
An approach to developing your own game-changing personal mantras

About MJ

MJ is an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world. She combines a practical approach with methodologies from neuroscience, positive psychology and asset-focused learnings to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals.

She is a partner with the Levo League career network and the lead venture coach at SheEO, an organization offering a new funding and support model for female entrepreneurs. She’s the founder of Conari Press, creator of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindnessseries, and author of many books including her latest Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Book: Habit Changers by MJ Ryan
Professor: Barbara Fredrickson
Therapist: Dr. John Gottman
Book: Random Acts of Kindness by The Editors of Conari Press
Book: Traction by Gino Wickman
App: Just Reminder
Website: MJ-Ryan.com

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063: The Optimal Time For Everything with Dr. Michael Breus Sep 21, 2016

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Dr. Michael Breus fills us in on all things sleep and identifies the optimal time of day for each and every thing we do. You’ll learn: 1. How to tell what your chronotype is – and how it determines the best time to do everything 2. The optimal time to send emails, brainstorm, drink coffee, have meetings, and more 3. How to make the most of your power nap About MichaelMichael J. Breus, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. With a specialty in Sleep Disorders, Dr. Breus is one of only 163 psychologists in the world with his credentials and distinction. Among his numerous national media appearances, Dr. Breus has been interviewed on CNN, Oprah, The View, Anderson, and The Doctors. He also appears regularly on The Dr. OZ Show and Sirius XM Radio. Dr Breus is dedicated to raising awareness of both medically diagnosed sleep disorders and the importance of quality sleep for all. He has become a widely recognized leader in the ever-evolving field of sleep medicine. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep63 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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