185: Banishing BS at Work with Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Communications consultants Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss swap stories about the BS we encounter in the workplace and best practices to avoid it.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to spot BS in the workplace and cut through it
2) How to survive the office version of Game of Thrones
3) Two quick tricks to communicate better at work
About Jennifer & Michael
Jennifer Rock and her coauthor, Michael Voss, have a shared passion for storytelling that goes back – way back – to when Jennifer published haikus in her first-grade newsletter, and Mike entertained other kids on the school bus with his creative fiction.
Their jones for crafting a tale fueled their individual career paths, where they held roles in journalism, advertising, public relations, marketing and corporate communications. They had the good fortune to work for and with companies that spanned industries and impact – from privately held start-ups to Fortune 50 powerhouses to, now, their own communications agency.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander
- Jennifer and Michael’s Book: B.S. Incorporated
- Jennifer and Michael’s book website: RockAndVossBooks.com
- Book: StrengthsFinder by Tom Rath
- Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Software: Hootsuite
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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 with your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 185. We got two folks behind |
| 0:26.8 | the mic this time in addition to myself. That's Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss. They are |
| 0:31.7 | Communications Consultant Agency messages. Rock and Michael Voss, they are communications consultant agency messaging folk, |
| 0:36.2 | and they've got a world of wisdom when it comes to slashing through the BS at work. We have the iTunes.S. at work. |
| 0:42.6 | We have the iTunes Clean rating. |
| 0:44.9 | So, B.S. short for Bull, |
| 0:47.4 | Schneckies, if you will, to quote, Tommy boy. |
| 0:50.6 | I don't know how much swearing is too much swearing for the iTunes clean rating but we won't push it you get what I'm saying the BS |
| 0:55.6 | So you're gonna learn one how to spot BS in the workplace and cut through it to how to survive the office version of Game of Thrones and three two quick tricks to communicate |
| 1:06.1 | better at work so if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links |
| 1:10.0 | to items that we reference here you can find that over at awesome at your job |
| 1:13.9 | dot com slash eep one eight five and while you're at awesome at your job |
| 1:18.3 | dot com I encourage you to check out some of our helpful resources one One I'll highlight here today |
| 1:23.8 | is the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 1:26.5 | And so that is simply a compilation of excerpts, |
| 1:31.1 | the most hard-hitting actionable tidbits from my enhanced thinking and collaboration |
| 1:36.1 | training programs that have historically slashed about 1.4 hours on average of waste per person per week out of there. |
| 1:45.0 | I've taken some of the easiest most actionable tidbits and put them in bite-sized emails. |
| 1:50.0 | You can read one a day over the course of 10 work days so that's there amongst |
| 1:54.8 | other stuff check it out now here's a quick bit about our guests Jennifer Rock |
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