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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

194: How to Write like Warren Buffett with Elaine Bennett

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Education, Selfhelp, Thinking, Business, Mental Health, Mockaitis, Collaboration, Career, Speaking, Skills, Meaning, Decisions, Self-improvement, Wins, Health & Fitness, Interview, Fun, Success, Money, Sharpening, Development, Careers, Writing, Training, Winning

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Elaine Bennett shares how to write better business messages with greater clarity and personality.


You’ll Learn:

1) Two essential pieces of information you need to be a more effective writer

2) How you can make a bigger impact with storytelling

3) Winning ways to turn straight thinking into straight writing


About Elaine

Elaine Bennett had a baptism by fire as a speechwriter. Less than two years after she signed on to write for the CEO of Salomon Brothers, scandal forced the executive to resign. In stepped investor Warren Buffett. Since working with Mr. Buffett, Elaine Bennett has continued putting words in the mouths of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofits. She unearths the stories behind business data and helps executives shape those stories into memorable messages. She also coaches individual professionals looking to develop executive-caliber communication skills.


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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 for joining us here for episode 194 with Elaine Bennett.

0:26.6

We are talking writing and Elaine brings it in terms of how to write all the more clearly and powerfully.

0:34.0

So you'll learn one, two essential pieces of information you need

0:37.9

to be a more effective writer.

0:39.4

Two, how you can make a bigger impact

0:41.6

through storytelling, and and three winning ways to turn straight thinking

0:46.4

into straight writing. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

0:51.5

items that we reference here. You can find

0:53.4

that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 194 and while at awesome at your

0:59.5

job dot com I encourage you to check out some of our great stuff.

1:03.0

One thing I'll highlight right here is the 10 days

1:05.1

to winning at work email course.

1:07.4

So these are selected excerpts

1:09.8

are the most actionable tidbits.

1:11.7

I can put in an email form from my enhanced thinking

1:14.6

and collaboration training programs I do with teams. We've had some really cool

1:18.1

success stories in terms of before and after every individual team member going through the programs,

1:24.0

saving 86 minutes of waste chopped out of their work week.

1:28.0

So hopefully you'll get a good piece of that

1:30.0

just by doing the email course,

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