002: Chasing Opportunity with Arla Lach
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 April 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Arla shared some powerful insights on identifying and pursuing career advancement opportunity. If you’re currently eyeing a new move, you’ll want to hear her take.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How to do your homework to snag the next advancement.
2) The importance of proactively chasing the big break.
3) Lessons learned from serving as Chief of Staff for two separate CEOs.
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— ABOUT ARLA —
Arla Lach is a Partner in Audit Services in the Chicago office of Grant Thornton. She has more than 16 years of experience in public accounting, serving companies with revenues from $4 million to $1 billion. From 2008 through 2010, she served as chief of staff to the CEO of Grant Thornton LLP. In 2011, Lach received a “Women to Watch” award in the emerging leader category from the Illinois CPA Society. She’s passionate about helping women rise into and succeed in leadership roles.
• Arla’s firm, Grant-Thornton LLP
• Arla’s email address: arla.lach@us.gt.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• School: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Book: Lean In by Sheryl Sandbery
• Book: The Divergent young adult novel series by Veronica Roth
• Tool: Getting Things Done, (GTD) system
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:18.8 | Hey, well, once again, I'm super excited |
| 0:22.0 | to introduce Ar the Lock here on the second episode of the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | And Arla shared some fantastic insights when it comes to identifying and pursuing the next career advancement |
| 0:35.1 | opportunity. I love the hearing her say you have to chase it. So if you're |
| 0:38.9 | currently eyeing a new move you're definitely going to want to hear her take on that. |
| 0:42.3 | So in particular you're definitely going to want to hear her take on that. So in particular you're going to learn |
| 0:44.8 | some best practices when it comes to doing your homework to snatch that opportunity, |
| 0:49.2 | just how critical it is to be proactively chasing it and some fun lessons learned that she picked up |
| 0:55.9 | working as the chief of staff for two separate CEOs of Grant Thornton and to |
| 1:02.0 | get a visual perspective on some of these things |
| 1:04.2 | and check out the transcript and some of the items referenced, |
| 1:07.4 | go to awesome at your job.com slash Epp2. |
| 1:11.6 | That's letters EP and then the number two. |
| 1:15.0 | So, Ar the story here. |
| 1:16.5 | She is a partner in Audit Services in the Chicago Office of Grant Thornton. |
| 1:20.8 | She has over 16 years of experience in public accounting, serving |
| 1:24.4 | companies with revenues ranging from $4 million to $1 billion. From |
| 1:29.7 | 2008 through 2010, she has served as the chief of staff to the CEO of Grant Thornton |
| 1:34.8 | LLP. In 2011 she received the Woman to Watch Award in the Emerging Leader |
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