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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

268: Tactical People Skills Learned by Undercover Detective / Reality TV Winner Derrick Levasseur

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Former undercover detective and Big Brother winner Derrick Levasseur teaches you how to make use of his detective undercover skills in workplace environments to succeed in your job or profession and win life’s game.   You'll Learn: How to identify 5 key profiles of people in the workplace How to motivate different kinds of people, differently How to use silence to extract additional information   About Derrick: Derrick Levasseur is an investigator, author, speaker, and TV personality, with a demonstrated history of working in law enforcement and the entertainment industry. Derrick is a former undercover detective and the winner of his season of the TV series Big Brother.   He’s been called one of the best to have ever played the game. Derrick specializes in using and sharing undercover techniques in real-world applications.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep268 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.

0:23.3

Episode 268 with Derek Lovassar.

0:26.6

I think he really enjoyed this chat with Derek because he has a different background than most.

0:30.7

He was a cop, a detective working undercover, had some cool

0:36.5

exciting adventures as well as a reality TV star and he's bundled some of

0:41.6

this wisdom together in his book called The Undercover Advantage.

0:44.8

So you all learned one, how do identify five key profiles of people at the workplace?

0:49.2

Two, how to motivate those different kinds of people differently. And three, how to motivate those different kinds of people differently and three how to use

0:55.0

silence to extract additional information so if you'd like to check out the show

0:59.7

notes with the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced it's over at

1:02.4

awesome at your job.com slash F 268. Now here's Derek's story. Derek Levassar is

1:08.0

investigator, author, speaker, and TV personality with a demonstrated history of

1:12.0

working in law enforcement and the entertainment industry.

1:14.4

Derek is a former undercover detective and the winner of his season of the TV series Big Brother,

1:19.9

and he's even been called one of the best to have ever played the game.

1:23.6

Derek specialized in using sharing undercover techniques in real world applications.

1:29.1

So thanks to Derek for spending some time with us and thanks to our sponsors.

1:32.2

Check him out.

1:34.2

Here is Derek.

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