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.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello, again.

Well, I'm pretty fired up here for this episode number 17,

and we've got Mr. Tom Singer and it's not

pronounced Thom singer even though he spells his name with an H and I met Tom some

years ago at Campus Speak event and it was really cool.

He had a great connection and he actually sent me a handwritten follow-up

Thank you note just like he talks about just saying hey it was cool to meet you. I thought that was pretty cool and I remembered it for some years. So this time we got a prolific speaker authored a master of ceremonies who's going to teach us some perspective and

mindset really when it comes to developing relationships to folks.

Whether that's folks you see every day on the job or folks you're just meeting in

kind of a networking or mingling type spot.

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awesome at your job at dot com slash epp 1-7 so what Tom shared some cool

perspectives along the way including, why a simple handwritten note can still go a long way.

2. How to apply the coffee beer meal rule to declutter your contact list to make it more meaningful and

three how to do some reframing of that I'm busy phrase into something positive

now here's Tom's story a Tom he's got an eclectic background, working in sales, marketing, and business development

rules for Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and entrepreneurial ventures.

He is a professional master of ceremonies, motivational keynote speaker, and the author of 11.

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