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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

082: Why You Might Not Need to be a Manager with Mark Allen

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Professor and author Mark Allen presents different opportunities to climb the corporate ladder, even if you don’t want to be a manager.


You’ll Learn:

1. Alternatives to the traditional managerial track

2. Why going for manager may not be optimal…even if you’re a top performer

3. Means of valuing your team in the workplace


About Mark

Dr. Mark Allen is an educator, speaker, consultant, and author who specializes in talent management and corporate universities. He is the author of Aha Moments in Talent Management and the co-author and editor of The Next Generation of Corporate Universities, and The Corporate University Handbook. He has also written numerous articles in practitioner and academic publications.

Mark is a professor at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. He is also a senior faculty member of the Human Capital Institute, a senior associate with the Kiely Group, and has taught for Vatel University and the American Management Association.


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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 thanks so much for joining us for episode 82 with Mark Allen.

0:26.4

Dr Mark Allen is a professor at Pepperdine and he has a world of research and some

0:31.8

unique perspectives on the managerial set of

0:35.8

responsibilities and how that may not be exactly what you need to do to advance

0:41.0

in your career. So you're going to learn one alternatives

0:43.8

to the traditional managerial track.

0:45.7

Two, why going for a manager roles

0:48.5

may not be optimal, even if you are a top performer.

0:51.8

And three, means of valuing your team effectively in the

0:56.1

workplace so if you want to check out the show notes the transcripts the links to

0:59.6

things mentioned you'll find those over at awesome at your job dotcom slash eep 82 and I'd encourage you to

1:05.6

click around and explore awesome at your job.com we got cool resources from summary insights from

1:10.9

guests via the gold nugget email list,

1:13.3

as well as the 10 day winning at work email course,

1:16.8

which shares some of my best tips and tactics

1:19.7

that I share in my training programs

1:22.0

for getting more efficiency and slashing waste out of your work

1:26.3

week.

1:27.3

So here's a quick bit about Mark. Dr. Mark Allen is an educator, speaker, consultant, and

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