027: Combatting Workplace Jargon with James Sudakow
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 22 June 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Author and consultant James Sudakow takes a sledgehammer of silliness to corporate jargon to help boost your credibility and relatability in corporate communications.
You’ll learn:
1) Why do we do this jargon in the first place?
2) How the use of such jargon can actually damage our credibility and make people take us less seriously
3) Some key phrases to avoid right away–and what to use in their place
About James
James Sudakow is the author of Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit… and Other Stupid Stuff We Say in the Corporate World (Purple Squirrel Media, February 2016). He serves as the principal of CH Consulting, Inc., a boutique management and organizational effectiveness consulting practice he founded in 2010. Sudakow specializes in helping companies manage organizational transformation, create talent management strategies and programs that maximize employee capabilities and improve business performance. Before starting his own consultancy, James held leadership roles in several global multibillion-dollar organizations across the technology and health care industries.
Items mentioned in the show:
- James’s hilarious book Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit
- James’s website: jamessudakow.com
- Research on The God Particle
- Book: “F in Exams“
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:18.3 | All right, well, once again, I'm excited to share |
| 0:20.4 | a fun conversation I had with James Sudacow and James really highlighted the |
| 0:26.2 | absurdity of jargon that we use in our daily work lives so they have a lot of fun |
| 0:32.3 | and laughs along the way exploring this and you'll learn one, why do we do this jargon stuff? |
| 0:37.0 | Two, how the use of such jargon can actually damage our credibility and having people take us seriously and three some key |
| 0:44.4 | phrases to avoid right away and what to use in their place check out the |
| 0:49.2 | show notes transcript and things mentioned drop on by awesome at your job. |
| 0:54.0 | And here's a bit about James. |
| 0:55.8 | James Sudacow is the author of picking the low-hanging fruit |
| 0:59.4 | and other stupid stuff we say in the corporate world. |
| 1:02.1 | He serves as the principle of |
| 1:03.2 | C.H. Consulting Inc. a boutique management and organizational |
| 1:06.3 | effectiveness consulting practice he founded in 2010. |
| 1:09.4 | Sudakow specializes in helping companies manage organizational transformation, create talent |
| 1:15.0 | management strategies and programs that maximize employee capabilities and improve business |
| 1:20.0 | performance. |
| 1:21.0 | Before starting his own consultancy, James held leadership roles in several |
| 1:24.6 | global multi-billion dollar organizations across the technology and healthcare industries. |
| 1:30.3 | For more information, visit him at James Sudacow.com. |
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