028: What HR is Really Thinking with Rita Trehan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 June 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Human Resources uber-guru Rita Trehan shares anecdotes from her years of experience helping HR professionals grow and succeed, and talks about how we can maximize our full potential at work.
You’ll learn
1) The positive benefits of acknowledging the ‘elephant in the room’
2) Tips for giving effective and constructive feedback to others
3) The truth about what goes on in the HR department at the office
About Rita
Ranked among the Top 100 Human Resources Officers, Rita has helped improve performance at organizations such as Honeywell, AES Corporation, Coca-Cola and the World Bank. She’s a regular contributor to the Washington Post and numerous journals including Forbes magazine. She recently authored the book Unleashing Capacity: The Hidden Human Resources.
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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. |
| 0:16.1 | Well, this is pretty fun conversation here. We're chatting with Rita Trahan, sort of a perspective of behind closed doors or behind the scenes of HR. |
| 0:30.0 | What are they really thinking, how are they operating, and what are some great tips we can glean |
| 0:34.1 | from her extensive career working with the human resources professionals at senior and |
| 0:39.7 | mid levels across many many impressive corporations. So you're going to have some cool |
| 0:45.7 | learnings including one the positive benefits of acknowledging the elephant of the |
| 0:49.3 | room. Two, tips for giving effective and constructive feedback to others, and three, the truth of what's really going on in the HR department at the office behind the scenes. |
| 1:00.0 | If you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, things mentioned and links. |
| 1:03.7 | You can find that at awesome at your job.com slash up to 8. |
| 1:07.7 | And if you want that stuff faster, sign up for the gold nugget email list at awesome at your job |
| 1:11.8 | dot com and you can read some of the key takeaways in two minutes. |
| 1:16.7 | A quick bit about Rita, ranked among the top 100 human resources officers, Rita Trahan, |
| 1:22.4 | has helped improve performance at |
| 1:24.2 | organizations such as Honeywell, AES Corporation, Coca-Cola, and the World Bank. She's a |
| 1:28.8 | regular contributor to the Washington Post and numerous journals including |
| 1:31.6 | Forbes magazine. |
| 1:32.8 | She recently authored the book A Leaching Capacity, |
| 1:35.9 | The Hidden Human Resources. |
| 1:37.8 | Here's Rita. |
| 1:39.1 | Rita, thank you so much for |
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