250: Powering Up Your Professional Presence with Magdalena Yesil
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Technology mogul Magdalena Yesil shares how to boost your gravitas, results, and ability to be heard at the workplace.
You’ll Learn:
1) What is the professional ask and why you should do it
2) How to access and convey greater gravitas
3) Tips for being heard better in meetings
About Magdalena
Magdalena Yeşil is a founder, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist of many of the world’s top technology companies, including Salesforce, where she was the first investor and founding board member. Yesil is a former general partner at U.S. Venture Partners, where she oversaw investments in more than thirty early-stage companies and served on the boards of many. A technology pioneer, Yeşil founded three of the first companies dedicated to commercializing Internet access, e-commerce infrastructure, and electronic payments.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: Happen to Your Career’s free 8 day course
- Magdalena’s Book: Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy
- Magdalena’s Website: Magdalena.com
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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 250 with |
| 0:24.8 | Magdalena Yashil. I think you will really find Magdalena's |
| 0:28.4 | insights valuable because she's coming from a place of genuine experience, very impressive set of credentials and a rise to power. |
| 0:37.6 | And she's going to share a lot of lessons learned along the way and that have appeared within |
| 0:42.1 | her research as well as own experience. |
| 0:44.4 | So you'll learn one, what is the professional ask and why you should do it? |
| 0:48.1 | Two, how to access and convey greater gravitas and three, tips for being heard better in meetings. |
| 0:55.7 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've |
| 0:58.6 | referenced here you can find that on over at awesome at your job dot com slash f 250 and while you're at awesome at your job |
| 1:06.1 | dot com I encourage you to check out some of our handy resources and one thing I |
| 1:10.7 | might point you to today is the Golden Nugget email list. |
| 1:13.7 | So if you are listening to this show while you're running or driving or unable to take notes, |
| 1:18.4 | but you feel the urge to do so, we take those notes for you and send them to your inbox each day there is a new |
| 1:24.9 | guest that has gone live. So you can sign up at awesome at your job dot com or by |
| 1:29.9 | texting nug and ug to 444999 now here's Magdalena story |
| 1:35.3 | Magdalena Yashil is a founder entrepreneur and venture capitalist of many of the |
| 1:40.0 | world's top technology companies including Salesforce where she was the first |
| 1:43.9 | investor and founding board member. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeshil is a former general partner at US Venture Partners where she oversaw |
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