051: Minimizing Corporate Drama and Insanity with Amanda Mitchell
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Mitchell, the founder of OurCorporateLife.com, shares hidden sources of workplace politics that may hinder productivity — and how you can prevent it.
You’ll learn:
- Approaches to identify and eliminate unnecessary suffering at work
- How to deal with “pot-stirrers” at your job
- The importance of focusing on your agenda before anyone else’s
About Amanda
Amanda is an executive coach and strategist specializing in helping senior executives deal with disruptive drama within their teams.
An advertising agency veteran, she experienced first-hand the business implications of corporate drama both with her Fortune 500 clients and within the Manhattan ad agency she led.
A practical problem solver, she founded Our Corporate Life (www.ourcorporatelife.com) to help executives solve the problems no one wants to deal with.
She has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek and quoted in Fast Company, CNBC.com, and Monster.com. She lives in New Jersey (aka the Land of Enchantment!) with her family.
Items Mentioned
- Website: OurCorporateLife.com
- Author: Jim Rohn
- Book: Conscious Business by Fred Kofman
- App: Hemingwayapp.com
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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, I'm looking forward to sharing with you this next guest here. It's Amanda Mitchell. |
| 0:26.9 | She's the founder of our CorporateLife.com and she has some really cool perspectives about just that. |
| 0:32.0 | What happens in the day and day out corporate life the sources of |
| 0:34.7 | politics and drama and insanity and how that can be reduced so you're gonna learn |
| 0:39.1 | one approaches to identify and eliminate unnecessary suffering at work. |
| 0:43.7 | Two, how to deal with the pot stirrers at your job. |
| 0:47.0 | And three, the importance of focusing on your agenda |
| 0:49.4 | before anyone else's. |
| 0:51.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, the links to things mentioned, |
| 0:53.9 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 5.1. And if you just want those |
| 0:58.7 | takeaways faster in an email you can read an under two minutes each morning. |
| 1:02.6 | Sign up for the gold nugget email list over there |
| 1:05.0 | at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:07.3 | Here's a bit about Amanda. |
| 1:08.8 | She is an executive coach and strategist |
| 1:10.8 | specializing in helping senior executives that deal with disruptive drama within their teams. |
| 1:15.2 | An advertising agency veteran, she experienced firsthand the business implications of corporate drama, |
| 1:20.3 | both with their Fortune 500 clients and within the Manhattan ad agency she led a practical problem |
| 1:25.9 | solver she founded our corporate life at our corporate life.com to help executive to solve the problems |
| 1:30.8 | no one else wants to deal with. She's been published in |
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