050: Getting the Boss to Listen to You with Jim Lukaszewski
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
James E. Lukaszewski, the man known as America’s Crisis Guru, shares how to handle and resolve crises within organizations from a strategic perspective.
You’ll learn:
1. The power of being a strategist and thinking differently than everyone else
2. The 7 disciplines of being a trusted advisor
3. The 3 steps to giving impactful 3-minute advice
About James
James (Jim) E. Lukaszewski is one of America’s most visible corporate go-to people for senior executives when there is trouble in the room or on the horizon. As America’s Crisis Guru®, He has been recognized for lifetime achievement in his profession by most of the major public relations organizations in the United States. He served for 22 years on the Public Relations Society of America’s Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS) and is now its first Emeritus member. He has written twelve books, including Why Should The Boss Listen to You,and hundreds of articles.
Items mentioned in the show:
- Book: Why Should the Boss Listen to You? by James E. Lukaszewski
- Jim’s website: www.e911.com
- Jim on LinkedIn
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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. Hello, once again, I'm looking forward to sharing with you another solid guest. |
| 0:26.0 | His name is Jim Lukashevsky. |
| 0:28.0 | He's known as America's Crisis Guru and he has some really cool perspectives, |
| 0:32.0 | hard one that have come from him, parachuting into crisis scenarios, |
| 0:37.0 | offering advice, seeing what gets listened to, what doesn't get listened to, and seeing who else gets listened to and why or why not he's documented that in his book |
| 0:46.2 | why should the boss listen to you and in his speeches and such so you're gonna learn one why |
| 0:51.0 | it's better to give options instead of solutions, |
| 0:53.2 | two, the seven disciplines of being a trusted advisor, |
| 0:56.6 | and three, the six steps to giving impactful three minute advice. |
| 1:00.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes, |
| 1:02.3 | the transcripts, the |
| 1:02.9 | links to things mentioned that's over at awesome at your job.com slash F50 or if you just |
| 1:08.6 | want those takeaways faster you can receive that in our gold nugget email list, which shows up in your inbox and gives |
| 1:16.6 | you just the takeaways associated with what a guest had to say in an email you can read in |
| 1:22.4 | less than two minutes. |
| 1:23.7 | So here's a quick bit about Jim. |
| 1:26.1 | Jim Lukashewski is one of America's most visible corporate go-to people |
| 1:30.0 | for senior executives when there is trouble in the room or on the horizon. |
| 1:34.0 | As America's Crisis Guru, registered trademark, he has been recognized for a lifetime |
| 1:39.5 | achievement in his profession by most of the major public relations organizations in the US. |
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