081: Lessons from Thousands of Employee Observation Hours with Dave Nevogt
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Dave Nevogt’s company Hubstaff earns its revenue from observing how people work. Here’s what he has learned about workers’ best practices along the way.
You’ll Learn:
- Two questions to ask yourself before handing over your deliverables
- One quick trick to get 1,000 LinkedIn connections in 60 minutes
- An improved approach to initiating tasks that delights managers and stretches employees
About Dave
Dave Nevogt is the co-founder of Hubstaff.com which helps virtual teams communicate better through automatic time tracking and activity tracking. He’s been running online businesses since he was 23, and now manages a team of 30 remote employees. Dave has been honored as one of Indianapolis’s top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs, and focuses on teaching others to manage remote teams. His writing can be found here.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Software: Hubstaff
- Software: Basecamp
- Software: Trello
- Software: Asana
- Software: Rapportive
- Software: Pivotal Tracker
- Book: The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
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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. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and |
| 0:22.5 | Thanks so much for joining us here for episode 81 with Dave Navote. |
| 0:26.4 | Dave has an interesting perspective being the founder of a software company that |
| 0:31.4 | does time tracking and observation of what's on people's computers so he has |
| 0:35.4 | some insights to share from that unique vantage point so looking forward to that and |
| 0:39.6 | you're going to learn one two questions to ask yourself before handing over your deliverables. |
| 0:43.4 | Two, a quick trick to get a thousand LinkedIn connections in one hour and three, an |
| 0:49.2 | improved approach to initiating tasks that delights managers and stretches employees. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to things mentioned, |
| 0:57.2 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash epp 81. |
| 1:01.2 | Well there I'd also encourage you to check out the Gold Nugget |
| 1:04.3 | email list for email summaries of all the guests and their respective insight as |
| 1:08.3 | well as the 10 Days to Winning at Work email course which shares some of the best tactics from my training programs that |
| 1:16.2 | really slash waste and increase your efficiency on the job. |
| 1:20.1 | So here's a quick bit about Dave. |
| 1:22.2 | Dave Navote is the co-founder of hubstaff.com, which helps virtual |
| 1:25.8 | teams communicate better through automatic time tracking and activity tracking. |
| 1:29.9 | He's been running online businesses since he was 23 and now manages a team of 30 remote employees. |
| 1:36.1 | Dave has been honored as one of Indianapolis's top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs and focuses on teaching |
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