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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

279: How to Feel More Alive at Work with Dan Cable

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

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning professor Dan Cable shares his research insights on our “seeking systems” and how our engagement with them largely determine whether we feel alive at work.   You'll Learn: The work we’re biologically hard-wired to enjoy How to rev up your aliveness using the three key triggers A one-hour intervention that reduces attrition by over 30%   About Dan: Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s areas of teaching, research, and consulting include employee engagement, leading change, organisational culture and its effects on sustained competitive advantage, leadership development and mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep279 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.

0:16.3

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 279 with Dan Cable.

0:26.3

This is a powerful conversation.

0:27.9

I think you're really going to dig it because Dan has done loads of research and

0:32.1

figured out a master key for what makes work feel alive and awesome

0:36.6

versus not so alive and awesome that's deep within our very human nature.

0:41.8

So you all learn one, the work that we're biologically hardwired to enjoy.

0:46.8

Two, how to rev up your aliveness using the three key triggers.

0:51.1

And three, a one hour intervention that reduces attrition by over 30%.

0:57.0

That's one hour one time, not one hour weekly or monthly.

1:00.0

Pretty cool.

1:01.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the

1:02.6

links to items that we've referenced go on over to awesome at your job

1:06.3

dot com slash f279. Now here's Dan's story. Dan cable is a professor of

1:11.4

organizational behavior at London Business School.

1:13.6

Dan's areas of teaching, research, and consulting include employee engagement,

1:18.3

leading change, organizational culture, and its effects on sustained competitive advantage, leadership development, and mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors.

1:28.0

Big thanks to Dan for taking some time to chat and big thanks to our sponsors check them out.

1:34.8

Here is Dan.

1:36.5

Dan, thanks so much for joining us here

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