012: Rising Like a Star with Claire Pedersen Patel

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, “Rising Star of the Consulting Profession” Claire Pedersen Patel shares insight into her rapid career rise, from the importance of finding confidence to the traits that turn employees into great leaders.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How Claire’s own initiative led to her leading the entire associate team.

2) What to do when you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing at work.

3) The qualities that truly stand out on resumes.

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— ABOUT CLAIRE —

Claire Pedersen Patel is a Principal and Capability Leader at Trexin Consulting. She was recently recognized with Consulting Magazine’s “35 Under 35 Rising Stars” award. Claire manages one fifth of Trexin’s client delivery team and remains the only non-partner managing a department at Trexin. Prior to Trexin, she was a Global IT Chief of Staff at Aon Risk Services, reporting to the CIO. She has always been passionate about building the next generation of consultants; in 2015, Claire tripled the size her team. She fundamentally changed how projects were staffed, delivering strong business growth and greater value for clients. Her team is the fastest growing part of the company and will double again in 2016.

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• Claire's organization: Trexin

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: Consulting Magazine‘s Rising Stars list

• Book: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

• Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Sean Covey

• Study: Harvard Business Review’s ‘Competent Fools, Loveable Jerks, and the Formation of Social Networks‘ study

• Tool: Myers-Briggs

• Tool: OneNote

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Transcript

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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.
0:18.0	Okay, well, once again, I am stoked to introduce
0:20.6	another fantastic guest here. It is Claire Pedersen Patel and she has some pretty
0:26.2	cool stories coming out of her rapid rise to power, if you will, at her consulting firm.
0:33.2	And so she has some great things to share there,
0:35.4	including one, how she found herself in charge
0:38.2	of the whole associate program rather quickly.
0:41.1	Two, coping strategies for when you fear you have no idea what you're doing, and three, what
0:46.8	Claire loves seeing in fresh recruits.
0:49.4	Now, I met Claire Petters and Patel way back of the day in Molly United Nations and she has really
0:55.9	put those problem solving and coalition building type skills to good work.
1:00.1	And rather quickly, she has come to lead the whole Associate
1:04.7	program at Trexin, which is an Inc 5000 management
1:07.5	and technology consulting firm.
1:09.8	And Consulting magazine has recently named Claire among their 35 under 35 rising stars of their profession.
1:18.0	So if you want to check out the things mentioned here in the show notes or the transcript, you can drop on by awesome at your job
1:24.9	dot com slash f12 that's the letters EP and then the numbers one two and here's
1:31.0	Claire thanks so much for appearing here on the How to Be Awesome at your job podcast.
1:35.0	Hi Pete, thanks for having me.
1:37.0	Well, you know, I think you and I have both come a long way since being fellow model United Nations folk at the University of Illinois and
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