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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:

645: How to Make a Bigger Impact by Connecting First with Dr. Melanie Katzman Feb 25, 2021

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Melanie Katzman shares strategies for establishing a great connection to facilitate great work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The trick to a great first impression

2) The one question to gain better perspective

3) The listening hack that makes all the difference

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— ABOUT MELANIE —

Dr. Melanie Katzman is a business psychologist and coach to the world’s top public and private companies. Her latest book, Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work, is a #1 WSJ bestseller.

She has delivered workshops and keynotes to organizations worldwide for three decades. During COVID-19, she is an especially sought-after virtual speaker, giving groups the tools for coping with newfound daily stressors, teaching immediately actionable techniques that have meaningful and enduring results.

Melanie has been featured in the financial and popular media, and has appeared on numerous podcasts and television outlets.

• Book: Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work

• Instagram: melaniekatzman

• Facebook: Melanie Katzman

• LinkedIn: Melanie Katzman

• Twitter: @melaniekatzman

• Website: MelanieKatzman.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns

• Website: Above the Law

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644: How to Sharpen Your Skills for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet with Michelle Weise Feb 22, 2021

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Michelle Weise sheds light on the learning challenges professionals will face in the near future—and how we can prepare for them.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to surface your hidden skills

2) How to keep AI from making you irrelevant

3) Nifty tools for upskilling quickly

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— ABOUT MICHELLE —

Michelle Weise was just named to the Thinkers50 thinkers to watch in 2021. She is senior advisor to Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group, and BrightHive, a data collaboration platform.

She is former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network and Southern New Hampshire University. She led the higher education practice at Clay Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Her most recent book is LONG LIFE LEARNING: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet (Wiley, 2020). Her first book, with Clay Christensen (2014) is Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution.

• Michelle’s book: Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet

• Michelle’s LinkedIn: Michelle R. Weise

• Michelle’s Twitter: @rwmichelle

• Michelle’s website: RiseAndDesign.io

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Freestyle2 Keyboard for PC

• Website: Skills Match

• Software: GLEAC

• Software: Mursion

• Company: FutureFit AI

• Company: Skyhigh Manpower Recruitment International

• Company: InnoCentive

• Company: Climb Hire

• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

• Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Previous episode: 376: How to Become the Success Nobody Saw Coming: Research Insights into “Dark Horses” from Harvard’s Todd Rose

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643: The Overlooked Fundamentals of Inspiring and Managing Teams with 15Five’s Shane Metcalf Feb 18, 2021

Show notes

Shane Metcalf reveals his top research-based do’s and don’ts for being a great manager.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The one meeting a manager should always make

2) The teambuilding technique for great teams from the get-go

3) How and why to keep an employee dossier

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— ABOUT SHANE —

Shane Metcalf is a keynote speaker on building a world class workplace and one of the world’s leading pioneers in the space of cultural engineering and positive psychology. His insights have been featured in Inc, Fast Company, Business Insider, Washington Post, Tech Crunch, and Bloomberg.

As the Co-founder of 15Five, Shane and his team support HR Executives with data-driven continuous performance management. 15Five has won numerous awards for their company culture, including the prestigious Inc Best Workplaces award, and is ranked #3 in the U.S. on GlassDoor.

Follow Shane on Twitter and LinkedIn, and listen to him co-host the Best-Self Management Podcast.

• Blog: 15Five.com/blog

• Company: 15Five

• LinkedIn: Shane Metcalf

• Podcast: HR Superstars

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organizationby Robert Kegan

• Book: Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Bossby Mary Abbajay

• Book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Workby Teresa Amabile

• Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

• Past episode: 275: How to Manage Your Manager with Mary Abbajay

• Past episode: 582: The Five Behaviors That Make You an Indispensable “Go-to” Person with Bruce Tulgan

• Strengths Survey: VIA Character Strengths

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642: How to Identify Your Career Season and Land Your Dream Job with Ramit Sethi Feb 15, 2021

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Ramit Sethi shares how to find your career season and jobhunting insights for landing your dream job.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What makes a job the dream job

2) The question you should ask your career role model

3) How the briefcase technique can get you the job or raise

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— ABOUT RAMIT —

Ramit Sethi, author of the New York Times bestseller I Will Teach You To Be Rich, has become a personal development expert to millions of readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties. He started his website, iwillteachyoutoberich.com, as a Stanford undergraduate in 2004, and he now hosts over a million readers per month on his blog, newsletter, and social media.

Ramit grew up in Sacramento, the son of Indian immigrant parents who taught him the art of negotiating. Ramit went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in technology and psychology from Stanford University and has used this understanding of human behavior to create innovative solutions in self development. Ramit and his team build premium digital products about careers, personal finance, entrepreneurship, psychology, and personal development for top performers. The IWT community includes over 1 million monthly readers, 300,000 newsletter subscribers, and 35,000 premium customers. Follow Ramit on Twitter and Instagram.

• Book: I Will Teach You To Be Rich

• Course: Find Your Dream Job 2.0

• Instagram: @ramit

• Twitter: @ramit

• Website: IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson

• Personality: Elliot Aronson

• Study: Asch Conformity Experiment

• Study: “The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process” by Lee Ross

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641: How to Inspire Sustained Change with Richard Boyatzis Feb 11, 2021

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Richard Boyatzis shares compelling research on how to open others up to change.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why goals don’t motivate us to change—and what does

2) The biological key that opens people up to change

3) Four principles for making change stick

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— ABOUT RICHARD —

Richard E. Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor of Case Western Reserve University, Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science, and HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business. He has a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, a MS and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Using his Intentional Change Theory (ICT), he studies sustained, desired change of individuals, teams, organizations, communities and countries since 1967.

He is the author of more than 200 articles and 9 books on leadership, competencies, emotional intelligence, competency development, coaching, neuroscience and management education, including the international best-seller, Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee and the recent Helping People Change with Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten. His Coursera MOOCs, including Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence has over a million enrolled from 215 countries. He is Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association.

• Richard’s book: Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth with Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten

• Richard’s book: Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence) with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee

• Richard’s book: Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion with Annie McKee

• Richard’s course: Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (Austen Riggs Monograph S) by Erik Erikson

• Book: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik Erikson

• Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Book: The Achieving Society by David McClelland

• Book: Power: The inner experience by David McClelland

• Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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640: Why Being Qualified Isn't Enough: How to Overcome Your Fear of Selling Yourself with Jena Viviano Feb 08, 2021

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Jena Viviano shares her three-step process for making more successful career transitions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The three sources of career clarity

2) Why networking doesn’t have to feel sleazy

3) The three things recruiters are always looking for

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— ABOUT JENA —

Jena Viviano is an ex-Wall Streeter turned career coach and entrepreneur who helps ambitious professionals articulate their personal branded career stories to land their dream jobs.

• Jena’s LinkedIn: Jena Viviano Dunay

• Jena’s podcast: Recruit the Employer

• Jena’s website: RecruitTheEmployer.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Software: Loom

• Term: Briefcase technique

• Book: Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

• Book: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris

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639: How to Get More Breakthrough Ideas with Susan Robertson Feb 04, 2021

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Susan Robertson explains how to tap into your creative genius to generate breakthrough solutions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why every professional benefits from more creativity

2) Why you should start with your craziest idea

3) What to do when others shoot down your ideas

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— ABOUT SUSAN —

Susan Robertson empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to more nimbly adapt to change, by transforming thinking from “why we can’t” to “how might we?” She is a creative thinking expert with over 20 years of experience coaching Fortune 500 companies.

As an instructor on applied creativity at Harvard, Susan brings a scientific foundation to enhancing human creativity. She combines the neuroscience of creative thinking with a big dose of fun, to make the learning and behavior change really stick.

• Susan’s website: SusanRobertson.co

• Susan’s article: “10 Rules for Brainstorming Success”

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• TED Talk: “Do schools kill creativity?” with Sir Ken Robinson

• Website: Stormz

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638: How to Build Unhackable Focus with Kary Oberbrunner Feb 01, 2021

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Kary Oberbrunner shares expert strategies for bringing your attention back to what matters most.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The wrong and right ways of dealing with task overload

2) The three components of deliberate magnetic focus

3) The two triggers of flow state

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— ABOUT KARY —

Kary Oberbrunner is CEO of Igniting Souls. Through his writing, speaking, and coaching, he helps individuals and organizations clarify who they are, why they're here, and where they should invest their time and energy.

Kary struggled to find his own distinct voice and passion. As a young man, he suffered from severe stuttering, depression, and self-injury. Today a transformed man, Kary equips people to experience Unhackability in work and life and share their message with the world. He believes the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. His vision is to ignite 100 million souls by 2030.

Kary lives in Ohio with his wife, Kelly, and three children: Keegan, Isabel, and Addison.

• Kary’s book: Day Job to Dream Job: Practical Steps for Turning Your Passion into a Full-Time Gig

• Kary’s book: Elixir Project

• Kary’s book: Unhackable: The Elixir for Creating Flawless Ideas, Leveraging Superhuman Focus, and Achieving Optimal Human Performance

• Kary’s website: UnhackableBook.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “Putting a Finger on Our Phone Obsession”

• Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell

• Book: The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

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637: How to Have a Happier Work Week with Nic Marks Jan 28, 2021

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Nic Marks shares the research and best practices for more happiness at work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The five elements of a happy work life

2) How to draw the boundary between work and life

3) How to boost motivation and engagement in 5 minutes

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— ABOUT NIC —

Nic Marks was once described as a "statistician with a soul" due to his unusual combination of 'hard' statistical skills and 'soft' people skills.

He has been working in the field of happiness, wellbeing and quality of life over 25 years with a particular emphasis on measurement and how to create positive change. He is the founder of Friday Pulse and has worked with over a 1,000 organizations and teams measuring and improving their happiness at work.

• Nic’s website: NicMarks.org

• Nic’s LinkedIn: Nic Marks

• Nic’s company: Friday Pulse

• Personality Test: FridayOne.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Company: HelloFresh

• Software: HubSpot

• Term: Dunbar numbers

• Term: PERMA by Seligman

• Study: The Day Reconstruction Method

• Book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

• Book: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

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636: How to Advance Your Most Important Priorities with Eric Papp Jan 25, 2021

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Eric Papp shares foundational perspectives on saving time and prioritizing effectively.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The one question that cuts your tasks in half

2) The strategy that makes plans stick

3) The key to starting off your week right

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— ABOUT ERIC —

Eric Papp has a successful history of delivering proven strategies to increase productivity and performance in a complex world.

Before becoming the success he is today, Eric earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He founded Agape leadership, LLC, an intellectual capital firm focusing on leadership and sales for business performance, with the sole purpose of driving leaders and their teams to success.

As a successful author and public speaker since 2010, he has worked with thousands of managers to aid teams toward success.

Eric Papp has been evaluated as one of the top management trainers in North America for his expertise in leadership effectiveness. His books Leadership By Choice and 3 Values of Being An Effective Person — published by John Wiley and Sons — are both top sellers and recognized for their unique impact in the business world.

Eric now lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Brieann and their daughter Elliana. In his spare time, Eric frequents his local church, engages the community, and practices the kettlebell.

• Keynote: “Better Thinking vs. More Effort”

• Planner: “Priority Planner: A Daily Process of Accomplishing What Matters To You Professionally and Professionally"

• Website: EricPapp.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Book: The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

• Movie: “H-E Double Hockey Sticks”

• Practice: Lectio Divina

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