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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

010: Something You Should Know to Defuse the Drama at Work with Dennis McIntee

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Drama should never take priority over great work. In this episode, “Drama Free Guy” Dennis McIntee shows us how to find the underlying root cause of office drama, and how to achieve positive and long lasting solutions for everyone.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The critical link between culture and workplace behavior.

2) The right questions to ask to diffuse drama and solve a problem.

3) The best way to encourage team members to take ownership for their actions.


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep10 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT DENNIS — 

Dennis McIntee, also known as the “Drama Free Guy,” is an author and speaker dedicated to helping organizations take the drama out of their teams to build environments of trust. Originally a pastor in both Europe and the U.S., he realized that his pastoral skills could be applied to helping corporate teams and businesses flourish. In 2004, he founded The Leadership Development Group, and has traveled extensively giving workshops and seminars focused on teaching others how to take ownership and eliminate drama from the workplace. He is the author of The 8 Qualities of Drama Free Teams, The Power of Pursuit, People Smart and Time Mastery. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and four children.

• Dennis' book: The 8 Qualities of Drama Free Teams 

• Dennis’ website: dennismcintee.com



— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Show: The Office

• Website: rayedwards.com

• App: Waze app

• App: American Airlines app

• Tool: GTD systems

• Organization: Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group


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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.

0:18.4

OK, hello, once again.

0:20.7

I'm super excited to have our episode 10. Boy, time is flying and we are still riding high in the new and noteworthy of the iTunes directory in three categories.

0:31.0

Wow, so thank you. Browsers browsers and just checking this out for the first time. I hope

0:35.4

that you become subscribers and I would really love to hear from anyone and everyone associated

0:40.8

with what would you like to hear and learn about to become more

0:43.9

awesome at your job so you can drop me an email at peat at awesome at your job

0:48.0

dot com or head on over to awesome at your job dot com slash contact for a number of fun ways

0:53.4

to be in touch with social media or whatnot.

0:57.0

So if you've got some drama at work, our guest today,

1:00.6

Dennis McAtee, aka the drama-free guy, may be just the life saver for you.

1:07.0

Today we're going to learn about the Dennis system for avoiding drama.

1:11.0

And you one, that is an It's always sunny in Philadelphia reference the

1:14.9

Dennis system a hilarious and wildly inappropriate episode which just creates

1:19.9

drama instead of freeze it but no this Dennis we're chatting with is going to

1:25.2

share some really powerful takeaways associated with diffusing the drama that

1:29.0

could show up in your workplace in your team environment. So some excellent

1:32.2

takeaways there and so of my favorites were, one, how to avoid the drama triangle roles of victim blamer and rescuer to instead become the creator, the terrible question that we should really stop asking

1:46.6

if you want to short circuit the drama before it starts, and on the flip side, the coaching question that inspires personal responsibility.

1:55.4

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