

How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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!
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Feb 26, 2024 • 37min
939: How to Waste Less Time on Meetings…and Spend More Time on Strategy with Rich Horwath
Rich Horwath shares insights on being strategic, cutting through busywork, and making time for strategy. Learn to prioritize effectively, improve meeting efficiency, and focus on high-impact tasks. Discover the importance of relationship building, task batching, and personal development in achieving business success.

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Feb 22, 2024 • 44min
938: William Ury on How to Thrive in Conflict
Renowned negotiation expert William Ury shares insights on transforming conflict into opportunity, emphasizing the importance of listening, understanding different perspectives, and building coalitions. Strategies for negotiation success include staying calm, seeking support from the 'third side,' and cultivating virtues like trust and patience. Learn how to use empathic listening and the 'positive no' for constructive conflict resolution, and explore the benefits of innate superpowers like creativity and community involvement.

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Feb 19, 2024 • 47min
937: Speaking the Hidden Language of Connection with Charles Duhigg
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg shares secrets of powerful connections: communication styles, deep questions, workplace conflicts. Learn how to build genuine relationships through meaningful conversations and vulnerability. Explore the art of super communication and AI co-pilots in enhancing interaction skills.

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Feb 15, 2024 • 39min
936: The 8 Super Powers that Unlock Gravitas with Lisa Sun
Lisa Sun shares her tools for building true, lasting confidence. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) What gravitas really means2) The Six Forces ruining your confidence3) How to discover your “confidence language”Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep936 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT LISA — Lisa Sun is the founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, a company on a mission to catalyze confidence. GRAVITAS offers innovative size-inclusive apparel, styling solutions, and content designed to make over women from the inside out.Prior to founding GRAVITAS, Sun spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised leading luxury fashion and beauty brands and retailers in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America on strategic and operational issues. Her first collection was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, People, and the Today Show in the same month. Sun and GRAVITAS have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, Fast Company, New York Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, InStyle, and more. GRAVITAS includes among its activities a commitment to AAPI causes and New York City’s Garment District. Often called the “dress whisperer,” Lisa is also a highly sought-after public speaker who likes to impart her hard-won knowledge on gravitas and how to best harness it to other women. • Book: Gravitas: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence • LinkedIn: Lisa Sun • Quiz: MyConfidenceLanguage.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie • Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck • HBR Article: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey • Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay • Past episode: 852: Dale Carnegie’s Timeless Wisdom on Building Mental Resilience and Strong Relationships with Joe Hart 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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Feb 12, 2024 • 40min
935: The Five Steps to Winning Every Week with Demir Bentley
Learn the five steps to winning every week including effective time management, making small changes for long-term impact, embracing imperfection in productivity, the impact of incomplete tasks on problem solving, and the importance of planning and organizing commitments.

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Feb 8, 2024 • 37min
934: Building Confidence by Facing Fears with Michelle Poler
Michelle Poler, founder of Hello Fears, shares strategies for facing fears head-on. Topics include flipping fear perspective, daring to be disliked, and the distinction between bravery and fearlessness. Also discussed are the connection between fear and growth, taking action through creative work, favorite studies and books, and the importance of exploring more and taking on challenges.

Feb 5, 2024 • 34min
933: How Building a Habit of Bravery Transforms Everything with Todd Henry
Todd Henry, teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He discusses the concept of bravery as a habit and how it's often misunderstood. They explore the importance of perseverance and not quitting in difficult moments. They also talk about building a habit of bravery, expressing intent, and pursuing something even with the chance of failure.

Feb 1, 2024 • 9min
2024 Survey Results
The podcast host shares insights from a listener survey and discusses upcoming changes, including incorporating video content, refreshing intro music, and partnering with Supercast.

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Jan 29, 2024 • 30min
932: How to have breakthrough conversations with Dr. Marcia Reynolds
Dr. Marcia Reynolds, master coach, shares tips on how to have breakthrough conversations. She emphasizes the importance of asking meaningful questions, defining confidence, and staying present. The episode also explores the use of prompts and patterns for transformative conversations, as well as the value of utilizing tools like Sanebox.

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Jan 25, 2024 • 39min
931: How to Overcome Obstacles and Kickstart Change with R. Michael Anderson
The podcast explores personal growth, leadership challenges, substance abuse, and taking legal action. It also discusses internal struggles, listening skills, and the importance of self-relationship in leadership.