132: Delivering Outstanding Usability and Career Experiences with Shannon Clark
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Shannon Clark shares the story of her rise to exceptional expertise in human factor studies, sharing lessons learned for improving product and career concepts along the way.
You’ll Learn:
- How to become invaluable in what you love to do
- Ninja tactics for improving the validity of your ideas – and career path
- How stress prevents you from getting to the next level
About Shannon
Shannon Clark is the CEO of UserWise Consulting, working to promote self-sufficient usability engineering programs in companies and the development of safe, usable, and effective medical devices. Prior to starting her own company, she worked as a human factors engineer at Intuitive Surgical and Abbott Medical Optics.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: UserWise
- App: Lucidchart
- Book: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
- Surgical robots!: Intuitive Surgical
- Process: Task Analysis
- Service: My Hours
- Technique: Think Aloud Technique
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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. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 132. We've got my friend Shannon |
| 0:26.8 | Clark who has just extraordinary expertise in the world of Human Factor Studies. |
| 0:32.8 | She's going to share her nifty career journey |
| 0:35.5 | as well as great lessons learned |
| 0:37.6 | that you can put into play in your work, |
| 0:40.1 | testing stuff out. |
| 0:41.0 | So you're going to learn one, |
| 0:42.4 | how to become invaluable in what you love to do |
| 0:45.2 | to Ninja tactics for improving the validity of your ideas and career path and three how stress can prevent you from reaching the next level in your career. |
| 0:56.7 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we mentioned |
| 1:01.6 | drop on by awesome at your job. |
| 1:03.6 | dot com slash Epp 132. |
| 1:06.5 | While you're there, I encourage you to check out some of the other cool resources |
| 1:10.0 | from the gold nugget email list |
| 1:11.8 | where we take the notes for you and send it right to your inbox |
| 1:15.2 | to the 10 days to winning at work email course that offers tools for slashing through some of the |
| 1:20.4 | waste in your work week. |
| 1:22.6 | Here's Shannon's story. |
| 1:24.0 | Shannon Clark is the CEO of Userwise Consulting, |
| 1:27.0 | working to promote self-sufficient usability engineering programs |
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