029: Gaining Quicker Traction in Your New Role with Dr. Michael D. Watkins

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Professor, author, and consultant Michael Watkins shares best practice strategies and tactics for getting the optimal start in a new role at work. You’ll learn: The most critical ingredient for a successful transition How to accelerate your arrival at the “breakeven point” for your new role The key questions to discover what you REALLY need to know quickly About Michael Dr. Michael D. Watkins is a Co-founder of Genesis Advisers and Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the IMD business school. Previously, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Dr. Watkins wrote The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Smarter and Faster, which The Economist recognized as “the on- boarding bible.” The enduring classic has sold more than a million English copies and has been translated into 24 languages. The revised and expanded 10th Anniversary Edition released in 2013. At IMD, he is the Director of the "Transition to Business Leader" program. At Genesis Advisers, he leads a team that designs enterprise transition acceleration solutions for client organizations. Dr. Watkins is the author of numerous additional books and articles on leadership & transitions published in the Harvard Business Review and other top publications. View transcript, show notes, links, and more at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep29 Copyright © Optimality See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 with your host, Pete Machitis.
0:17.0	All right, well once again, I'm super excited to share this guest with you and he's
0:26.8	a depressive fellow and he's got so much good stuff. If you're going through a transition
0:31.4	right now, you're starting a new role or you're about to start a new role or you have
0:35.1	friends who have started a new role or you've got other people around you who've started a new role and seem to be struggling a little bit.
0:40.3	Any and all of these folks should absolutely hear what Dr Michael D. Watkins has to say.
0:47.0	He has got so much good stuff and so you're going to walk away with learning,
0:51.0	one, the most critical ingredient for a successful transition
0:53.2	two how to accelerate your arrival at the break-even point for your new role and three
0:58.5	the key questions to discover what you really need to know quickly.
1:03.0	And again, if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript,
1:05.0	the things mentioned and linked to in this episode,
1:08.0	you could find that at awesome at your job.com
1:10.0	slash ep-29. A quick bit about Michael.
1:14.5	Dr Michael D Watkins is a co-founder of Genesis advisors and professor of leadership
1:19.3	and organizational change at the IMD Business School.
1:22.3	Previously, he was on the faculty at the Harvard
1:24.8	Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Dr Watkins wrote
1:28.9	the first 90 days proven strategies for getting up to speed smarter and faster,
1:33.8	which the economists recognized as, quote,
1:36.2	the on-boarding Bible, end quote.
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