047: Creating Ideal Work Spaces with Leigh Stringer
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Architect and author Leigh Stringer shares how to adjust your workspace to enhance your performance.
You’ll learn:
1. The powerful connection between relaxation and creativity
2. What “biophilia” means and how it can improve your performance
3. The difference between good workers and great workers we learned from athletes
About Leigh
Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, is a workplace strategy expert and researcher whose work has been covered by national media, including CNN, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Good Morning America. She works for EYP, an architecture, engineering and building technology firm. She is the author of the book The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line and lives with her husband and two daughters in Washington, DC.
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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. Greetings once again we are in for a fun conversation with Lee Stringer who is an |
| 0:27.2 | architect and an author and she's got some just brilliant perspectives about |
| 0:30.8 | adjusting your workspace the physical environment around you and how that can make a real difference in your performance. |
| 0:38.8 | So you're going to learn one, the powerful connection between relaxation and creativity. |
| 0:43.2 | Two, what biophilia means and how it can improve your performance. |
| 0:48.1 | And three, the difference between good and great workers that we've learned from athletes. |
| 0:53.1 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, |
| 0:55.6 | the links to things mentioned, |
| 0:56.7 | that's over at awesome at your job.com slash epp for seven. |
| 1:01.4 | But if you just want those takeaways faster, |
| 1:03.3 | sign up for the Gold Nugget email list |
| 1:05.0 | over at all Smat Your Job.com |
| 1:06.8 | in which you can get some of these tidbits |
| 1:09.2 | in a quick email. |
| 1:10.5 | You can read in under two minutes, |
| 1:12.4 | which shows up in the morning. So here's a bit |
| 1:14.9 | about Lee. Lee Stringer, Lead AP, is a workplace strategy expert and researcher whose work has been |
| 1:22.4 | covered by national media including CNN, |
| 1:24.4 | USH Day, the Wall Street Journal, and Good Morning America. She works for |
| 1:28.7 | EYP, an architecture, engineering, and building technology firm. |
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