182: Better Work Relationships through Bigger Empathy with Sharon Steed
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Communications consultant Sharon Steed delves into how you can develop more empathy in communication and why it is needed in the workplace.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why people aren’t listening anymore
2) Pro-tips for being empathetic even with people you don’t like
3) Three ways to tackle difficult conversations
About Sharon
Sharon is an international keynote speaker and consultant focusing on improving communication through empathy. A life-long stutterer, Sharon users her speech impediment to teach what empathy is and how to use it as a foundation for positive and effective communication. She’s spoken about this at conferences both nationally and internationally; at companies; and various events spanning multiple industries.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sharon’s Lynda course: Lynda.com
- Sharon’s company: Communilogue
- Book: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
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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 182 with Sharon Steed. |
| 0:26.4 | Sharon's talking empathy. |
| 0:28.2 | So you're going to learn one, why people aren't listening anymore. |
| 0:31.6 | Two, pro tips for being empathetic, |
| 0:34.0 | even with people you don't like. |
| 0:36.2 | And three, three ways to tackle difficult conversations. |
| 0:39.9 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes |
| 0:41.6 | or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here, |
| 0:44.6 | you could find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep one eight two. |
| 0:49.8 | And while you're at awesome at your job dot com, I encourage you to check out some of our handy resources. |
| 0:54.4 | One I'd point you to now is the 10 days to winning at work |
| 0:58.0 | free email course. |
| 0:59.8 | This is a compilation of some of the most actionable and brief excerpts from my enhanced |
| 1:06.2 | thinking and collaboration training programs that have been proven to slash about 86 minutes |
| 1:12.3 | on average of waste out of each |
| 1:14.3 | professional's work week so I took those best kid bits put them in bite-sized |
| 1:18.8 | emails for you to get one a day over 10 days so you can have more time get home earlier or do some more work that you never seem to get a chance to do with |
| 1:29.0 | the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 1:32.1 | Now here's Sharon's story. Sharon is an international keynote |
| 1:36.1 | speaker and consulted focusing on improving communication through empathy. A lifelong |
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