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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

117: Making the Workplace More Human with Liz Ryan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Career advisor Liz Ryan explores how the workplace has gone off the rails, how to connect with employers with a pain letter, and give your resume a human voice.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Roadblocks that get in between creative people and their goals
  2. Why you should throw that performance review framework out of the window
  3. What’s a pain letter and why it will help you land your next job


About Liz

Liz Ryan is among the world’s most widely- read career advisors and CEO/Founder of Human Workplace, a think tank and publishing firm whose mission is to reinvent work for people.

Liz was SVP of HR for U.S. Robotics during its rise from $15M to $2.5B in annual sales. Liz was also CEO and Founder of WorldWIT, the world’s largest online community for professional women, before founding Human Workplace in 2012 to reinvent work for people. Liz writes for Forbes.com, LinkedIn and many other publications and is a sought after international keynote speaker.

Her new book is called Reinvention Roadmap: Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and the Career You Deserve


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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 Lekitis.

0:16.1

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 117 with Liz Ryan.

0:26.7

Liz brings a whole lot of passion and boldness and cool contrarian approaches to

0:32.1

her widely read career advice and she's going to share

0:36.2

with you one roadblocks that get in between creative people and their goals.

0:40.2

Two, why you should throw that performance review framework out the window.

0:44.0

3. What's a pain letter and why it will help you land your next job.

0:48.0

So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to items mentioned, you'll find that over at awesome at your job.

0:53.7

dot com slash Epp 117. And while you're there, I recommend you check out some of the other

0:59.2

great resources from the 10 days to winning at work, email course, to the gold nugget email summaries from each

1:07.1

of the guests.

1:08.1

So that shows up in your inbox in the morning.

1:10.0

You can read under two minutes, and it's pretty handy that way so here's Liz's story

1:14.5

Liz Ryan is among the world's most widely read career advisors and the CEO

1:19.6

founder of Human Workplace a think tank and publishing firm whose mission is to reinvent

1:25.4

work for people.

1:26.5

Liz was the senior vice president of human resources for U.S. robotics during its rise

1:31.0

from 15 million to 2.5 billion in annual sales.

1:35.0

This was also CEO and founder of WorldWitt, the world's largest online community for

1:39.5

professional women, before founding Human Workplace in 2012 to reinvent work for people.

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