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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Sep 28, 2023 • 41min
902: How to Ensure Great Career Fit with André Martin
André Martin, organizational psychologist and author of Wrong Fit, Right Fit, discusses how to avoid wrong career fit and know if a job is the right fit. He explores signs of a good career fit and emphasizes the importance of aligning preferences with company culture. Martin also highlights the challenges of finding the right career fit and the need for self-reflection. The chapter concludes with favorite tools and habits, including a text-based learning platform and having no tech Sundays for quality family time.
Sep 25, 2023 • 50min
901: How to Lead with Emotional Power with Julia DiGangi
Julia DiGangi, a neuropsychologist, discusses harnessing emotional energy, reframing negative patterns, root causes of procrastination and skepticism, understanding human suffering and resilience, reframing rejection and making meaning, overcoming fear of failure, looking within and addressing emotional pain, and the power of reframing for a more satisfying and emotionally intelligent life.
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Sep 21, 2023 • 50min
900: Six Mindsets For Thriving in Uncertain Times with Charles Conn
Charles Conn, an investor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur, shares strategies for thriving in uncertain times. Topics include self-sabotage, clever breakthroughs, effective communication, embracing risk, curiosity, innovation from different perspectives, imperfectionism, compelling storytelling, and collective intelligence through outsourcing.
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Sep 18, 2023 • 33min
899: How to Speak Smarter When Put on the Spot with Matt Abrahams
Guest Matt Abrahams, a leading expert in communication, shares six steps to improve spontaneous speaking skills. He discusses strategies to feel more comfortable when speaking on the spot, techniques to enhance communication performance, and the power of paraphrasing. The podcast offers valuable advice, frameworks, and book recommendations for improving public speaking.
Sep 14, 2023 • 46min
898: How to Reduce Workplace Drama and Ego with Cy Wakeman
Cy Wakeman, drama researcher and international leadership speaker, discusses reducing workplace drama and ego. She highlights the impact of ego on daily productivity and shares three questions to break free from it. Cy emphasizes the negative impact of workplace complaints and judgments, and the importance of toggling up to higher levels of consciousness. She explores different modes of behavior in the workplace and the benefits of toggling up to engage with others. Cy also provides tools for reducing workplace drama and ego, emphasizing personal accountability and creating engaging workplaces. She discusses the importance of observing our thinking and shifting perspective for a happier work life.
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Sep 11, 2023 • 40min
897: Jon Acuff: The Three Steps to Achieving Any Goal
Jon Acuff, NY Times bestselling author, shares practical advice for achieving goals, including breaking them down into smaller steps and maintaining motivation. They discuss overcoming imposter syndrome, the power of desire, and creating a motivation portfolio. They also emphasize the importance of creating from a place of love.
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Sep 7, 2023 • 51min
896: Finding More Success and Joy in Everything You Do with Suneel Gupta
Suneel Gupta shares ancient Indian wisdom for daily success, including the eight essential practices, resetting energy in five minutes, and achieving more with 85% effort. They discuss the concept of Dharma, optimizing for energy, controlling emotions, the 85% rule for sustainable performance, different mindsets for task completion, and discovering your Dharma through childhood interests.
Aug 31, 2023 • 36min
895: The Keys to Continual Growth and Improvement with Eduardo Briceño
Eduardo Briceño, a global keynote speaker, discusses the performance paradox, the one feedback method that always tells the truth, and the five key elements that drive growth. He shares tips for becoming a successful public speaker and emphasizes the importance of spending time in the learning zone. Briceño also explores building a culture of learning and collaboration and expresses his gratitude for the learning zone and the impact of change for improvement.
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Aug 28, 2023 • 38min
894: The Three Keys to Retaining Your Best People with Joe Mull
Author Joe Mull shares strategies for employee retention, debunking the myth that nobody wants to work anymore and discussing the sweet spot for a team's workload. He emphasizes the importance of meaningful work, having a great boss, and investing in the employee experience to prevent unhappiness and turnover. The podcast also covers workload measurement, the importance of addressing toxic employees, and the significance of a humane employee experience.
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Aug 24, 2023 • 45min
893: How to Help Your Team Beat Distraction and Unleash Their Productivity with Maura Thomas
Maura Thomas, an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity, shares insights on how to create a distraction-free work environment. Topics include the underlying cause of derailed productivity, the negative effects of multitasking, eliminating distractions with two key questions, prioritizing important work, managing boundaries for work-life balance, and maximizing productivity through attention management.
