157: Outrageous Asking for Outrageous Results with Linda Swindling
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 May 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Linda Swindling shares how to boldly ask for—and receive—more.
You’ll Learn:
- The right way to think about asking for more
- The drivers of asking discomfort—and practice approaches for overcoming them
- The main factors that drive whether a “yes” or “no”
About Linda
From the courtroom to the boardroom, Linda knows firsthand about influencing decision makers and asking outrageously. She practiced law for 10 years and is now a “recovering” attorney, popular speaker, executive coach and strategic consultant. She recently presented at TEDxSMU on the topic, “Why the World Needs You to Ask Outrageously,” and her newest book, Ask Outrageously! The Secret to Getting What You Really Want, will be released by Berrett-Koehler in June 2017.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander
- Book: Ask Outrageously! by Linda Swindling
- Website: High Performance Handbook
- Website: StopComplainers.com
- Book: Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
- Software: Constant Contact
- Website: LindaSwindling.com
- Podcast Episode: 16: Going for No with Andrea Waltz
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 157 with Linda Swindling. |
| 0:27.0 | Linda is talking about asking outrageously and she doesn't mean swindling people. |
| 0:31.2 | I couldn't resist. That's her last name it's just about |
| 0:34.2 | being bold and courageous in the requests you make and you may be surprised at what |
| 0:38.1 | happens when you do I think you're gonna love this one because Andrea Waltz |
| 0:42.0 | episode 16 talked about asking boldly in her |
| 0:45.6 | go for no episode and it's been a real hit so I think this one will be two you're |
| 0:49.9 | gonna walk away learning one the right way to think about asking for more. Two, the drivers of asking |
| 0:56.2 | discomfort and the practice approaches for overcoming them. And three, the main factors that drive whether you get a yes or a no. |
| 1:05.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcripts, or the items referenced here with links, |
| 1:11.0 | that's over at awesome at your job dot com slash |
| 1:13.7 | Epp one five seven while you're at awesome at your job |
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