096: Calm, Courage, and Command with Colonel Jill Morgenthaler
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Colonel Jill Morgenthaler draws from her vast experiences to combine broad wisdom principles with tactical tips that are valuable both on the battlefield and in the workforce.
You’ll Learn:
- What it takes to stare down Saddam Hussein
- The effects of radiating confidence – and how to do it
- How to succeed in any project with several courses of action
About Colonel Jill
Colonel Jill Morgenthaler was one of the first women to enter an experimental class for women in the US Army ROTC and train as an equal with men. She was the first woman Battalion Commander in the 88th Regional Support Command Division and the first Brigade Commander in the 84th Division. She was also the first woman to be put in charge of Homeland Security for the state of Illinois. She received the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit for her leadership. During her military career, Colonel Jill led hundreds of men and women around the world in war and peace. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and author of the book The Courage to Take Command: Leadership Lessons from a Military Trailblazer.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: ColonelJill.com
- Book: The Courage to Take Command: Leadership Lessons from a Military Trailblazer by Jill Morgenthaler
- Website: Avanoo
- Audiobook: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
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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. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 96 with Colonel Jill |
| 0:26.0 | Morgenthaller. Colonel Jill had so much great stuff to share when it comes to |
| 0:30.5 | finding your presence, your confidence, |
| 0:33.0 | either calm and what can be some high stakes |
| 0:35.5 | or stressful situations. |
| 0:36.8 | She has a number of them. |
| 0:38.6 | She's lived through in battle |
| 0:39.9 | and worked with corporate audiences all the time |
| 0:42.2 | to help them with their challenges and stresses and struggles. |
| 0:45.4 | So you're going to learn, one, what it takes to stare down Saddam Hussein. |
| 0:49.2 | Two, the effects of radiating confidence and how to do it and three how to succeed in any |
| 0:54.1 | project by having several courses of action. So if you'd like to check out the |
| 0:58.1 | show notes, the transcripts, the links to items mentioned, you'll find that over |
| 1:01.3 | at awesome at your job.com slash |
| 1:03.0 | up nine six and I'd recommend while you're over there at awesome at your job |
| 1:07.2 | dot com take a look at some of the other cool free resources from the 10 days |
| 1:11.7 | to winning at work email course to the gold nuggets |
| 1:14.0 | summaries of guests that arrive in your email inbox and for a limited time only |
| 1:17.9 | right now in December I'm running what I call a honeymoon special because as this episode releases I am on my |
| 1:26.2 | honeymoon because I just got married yay and so the implication that is if you |
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