1125: How to Reclaim Your Presence, Increase Your Influence, and Build Relationships that Last with Ravi Rajani
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ravi Rajani shows you how to build meaningful relationships, one conversation at a time.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The Three C’s of building trust
2) What makes people say, “Tell me more”
3) Why compliments come across as insincere
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— ABOUT RAVI —
Ravi Rajani is an international keynote speaker, transformational coach and LinkedIn Learning instructor, with over 65,000 people having taken his courses on Conscious and Charismatic Communication. Widely seen as one of the world’s top communication experts, mission-driven leaders, entrepreneurs and organizations such as Oracle NetSuite, T-Mobile, and Sherwin-Williams have engaged Ravi to help them and their people become masterful communicators so they can build meaningful relationships that amplify revenue growth and cultivate a culture of trust.
Off stage or camera, Ravi lives just outside of London, UK, with his wife, son, daughter and furry little West Highland Terrier. He loves the movie Limitless, a good stand-up comedian and a quintessentially British suit.
• Book: Relationship Currency: Five Communication Habits For Limitless Influence and Business Success
• LinkedIn: Ravi Rajani
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “Processing of Social and Monetary Rewards in the Human Striatum” by Keise Izuma, Daisuke N. Saito, and Norihiro Sadato
• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
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| 0:00.0 | much at the time through life we try and deflect imperfect moments cover them up already shy away from owning our mistakes |
| 0:19.6 | and i'm finding more so than ever before that when |
| 0:24.0 | you feel or see a mistake appearing, pause, smile and say, this is a gift. So this is a gift |
| 0:34.9 | and use that imperfect moment as an opportunity to showcase your humanity |
| 0:40.6 | because otherwise we can just end up being corporate robots. |
| 0:49.8 | That's Ravi Rajani. |
| 0:51.4 | He's widely seen as one of the world's top communication experts, |
| 0:59.4 | and organizations such as Oracle Net Suite, T. Boval and Sherwin Williams have engaged Ravi to help them and their people become masterful communicators to help build meaningful relationships that boost revenue growth and trust. |
| 1:05.5 | So you'll learn one, the three Cs of building trust. Two, what makes people say, tell me more. |
| 1:10.5 | And three, why compliments can come across is insincere. |
| 1:14.3 | And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, |
| 1:16.6 | I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, |
| 1:19.1 | which you can find over at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Pete McItis. |
| 1:23.1 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:24.5 | And now, here's Ravi. |
| 1:32.9 | Ravi, welcome. You nailed the name. |
| 1:39.3 | You nailed it first. I practiced. There wasn't even a, right, can't we're going to have to run their back. You nailed it. And because of that, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling great. |
| 1:42.9 | Oh, thank you. Well, maybe that's our first communication habit, perhaps, for limitless influence right there. |
| 1:47.5 | Yes. Say people's names right. Yes. Well, I'm excited to dig into your wisdom about |
| 1:51.3 | relationships, the communication and influence. So could you kick us off with a particularly |
| 1:56.4 | surprising and fascinating discovery you've made about us humans and communication over the course |
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