034: Accelerating Amid Complexity with Kevan Hall
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 July 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Globetrotting trainer Kevan Hall shares how to minimize waste and frustration in work environments complicated by multiple bosses, countries, and priorities.
You’ll learn:
1) The “star vs spaghetti” perspective to minimize unnecessary meeting attendance
2) Approaches to getting needed clarity at work
3) Frameworks for quickly sizing up and adapting to cultures
About Kevan
Kevan is CEO of Global Integration and author of the books “Making the Matrix Work: How Matrix Managers Engage People and Cut Through Complexity” and “Speed Lead: Faster, Simpler Ways to Manage People, Projects and Teams in Complex Companies.” He is the author of the “Life in a Matrix” blog, videos and podcasts.
As an experienced corporate line manager he spent 14 years leading teams in manufacturing operations, HR, and strategic & market planning in the Telecoms & FMCG sectors. He has lived in the UK and France and worked around the world.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded, built and runs Global Integration, a group of companies based in Europe, USA and Asia and operating worldwide.
The companies have consulted with more than 300 of the world’s leading companies (including PepsiCo, GE, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, W. L Gore, Abbott, Samsung and Vodafone) around the world and delivered over 100,000 participant days of training in the skills of working in matrix, virtual and global organizations.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- Kevin’s book, Making the Matrix Work
- Kevin’s book, Speed Lead
- Riding the Waves of Culture by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampton-Turner
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
- Kevan’s website, Global Integration
- Kevan’s Twitter feed
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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 | Greetings, once again, I am pumped up to share with you a really fun guest |
| 0:26.6 | and interview I did and that was with Kevin Hall and this guy has done so many |
| 0:31.5 | trainings in so many countries around the topics of complexity and thriving in matrix style organizational structures and working with different folks and countries. |
| 0:42.5 | So, so much good stuff. |
| 0:44.1 | I think you're gonna enjoy this, |
| 0:45.3 | and in particular, you're gonna learn, |
| 0:47.0 | one, the Star versus spaghetti perspective |
| 0:50.1 | to minimize unnecessary attendance at certain meetings. |
| 0:53.2 | Two, approaches for getting the required clarity at work, |
| 0:56.9 | and three frameworks were quickly sizing up |
| 0:59.4 | and adapting to different cultures. |
| 1:01.7 | And if you want to check out the show notes the transcript |
| 1:03.7 | the things mentioned here you could find that awesome at your job |
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| 1:13.7 | while you're over there at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:16.6 | Here's a bit about Kevin. |
| 1:17.8 | Kevin is the CEO of Global Integration |
| 1:20.1 | and author of the books, Making the Matrix Work, how Matrix managers engage people and cut through |
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