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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

137: Calming Performance Anxiety Like a Pro with Dr. Tom Hanson

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Professional sports coach Tom Hanson lets us in on the secrets of top-performing athletes that can also help us reach optimal performance at work.


You’ll Learn:

  1. How to work out the “yips” in corporate performance like a pro athlete
  2. An easy ABC framework for overcoming anxiety
  3. Why promises are so often broken… and how to do it better


About Tom

Tom Hanson, Ph.D. CEO of Heads-Up Performance, Inc., Tom is a certified professional coach with 17 years experience coaching, speaking and training. He’s worked with the Rangers, Yankees, and numerous other professional teams. He has a doctorate in sport psychology from the University of Virginia and uses his expertise in human performance to evoke excellence in professional athletes, CEOs and other corporate performers. Formerly a tenured professor at Skidmore College (NY), Hanson co-authored the book “Heads-up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time,” “Who Will do What By When” and more.


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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 here for episode 137 with Dr. Tom

0:26.0

Hanson. Tom brings his perspective associated with working with professional

0:31.3

sports teams when they get kind of anxious or nervous, the Yips, as they call them in baseball.

0:36.2

It applies that to your own corporate professional world. So you're going to walk away learning one.

0:41.6

How to work out the Yips and corporate performance like a pro-athlete,

0:45.0

two, an easy ABC framework for overcoming anxiety, and three, why promises are so often broken and how to do it better.

0:54.0

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items referenced

0:58.1

here, you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep one three seven while you're at awesome at your

1:05.0

eep one three seven while you're at awesome at your job dot com recommend you check out some of the cool stuff from the golden nugget

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email list where we take the notes for you

1:11.4

if you're exercising or driving unable to put pen to paper, well, we do it for

1:16.2

you, we email it to you, add your own notes and you're all done.

1:20.3

You also get access to the secret archive of the previous 136 guests in the notes that we've taken there.

1:27.0

So come on down, join the fun there, as well as the 10 Days to Winning at Work email course, which has a lot of great tactics that can slash

1:35.5

an expected 84 minutes of waste out of your work week.

1:40.3

But for now, here's Tom's story.

1:42.4

Tom Hanson, PhD, is the CEO of Heads Up Performance, Inc.

1:46.0

Tom is a certified professional coach with 17 years experience coaching, speaking, and training.

1:52.0

He's worked with the Rangers, Yankees, and numerous other professional sports teams.

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