256: Science-based Solutions for Delivering Tough Truth at Work with Mark Murphy
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 31 January 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 256 with Mark Murphy. |
| 0:26.3 | I think you will find this a particularly valuable conversation because Mark is bringing |
| 0:32.0 | some science-based insights on what it takes to deliver tough truths |
| 0:36.2 | at work in a way that's going to work. |
| 0:39.0 | It's going to create a real difference instead of just hostilities all around. |
| 0:42.5 | So you'll learn one, the top reasons why people don't tell the truth at work. |
| 0:46.3 | Two, common phrases that create defensiveness, |
| 0:49.4 | and three, why having a difficult conversation is better than just fixing the problem |
| 0:54.5 | yourself. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links |
| 0:58.2 | to items that we've referenced here it's on over at awesome at your job |
| 1:00.8 | dot com slash f two five56 and now here is Mark's story |
| 1:05.3 | Mark Murphy is a New York Times best-selling author weekly contributor Forbes |
| 1:09.9 | ranked as a top 30 leadership guru and the founder of Leadership IQ. |
| 1:14.5 | He's trained leaders at the United Nations, Harvard Business School, the Clinton |
| 1:17.7 | Foundation, Microsoft, Mastercard, Sherham, and hundreds more organizations. |
| 1:22.3 | He's written several award-winning books on leadership. Schuram and hundreds more organizations. |
| 1:22.7 | He's written several award-winning books |
| 1:24.3 | on leadership and has been featured in numerous |
| 1:26.8 | Premier Media Outlets. |
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