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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

289: How Executives End Up in the C-Suite with Cassandra Frangos

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“Executive Whisperer” Cassandra Frangos outlines what it takes to become a Chief Something Officer and how to garner needed  support along the way.   You'll Learn: When to follow—and when to disrupt— company culture One thing our listeners and most CEOs have in common How to pick up on social cues that can make or break your career   About Cassandra: Cassandra Frangos, Ed.D., is a consultant on Spencer Stuart’s Leadership Advisory Services team. She collaborates with Fortune 500 leadership teams on executive assessments, succession planning, leadership development and top team effectiveness.Previously, Cassandra was the head of the global executive talent practice at Cisco, where she was responsible for accelerating the readiness of the talent at all levels of the organization to transform the business and culture. Through partnerships with the executive team, she deployed innovative approaches to organization design, succession planning, assessment, coaching and development programs to drive business results and innovation. She also played an integral role in the 2015 succession planning for Cisco’s CEO, one of the most respected and longest-tenured CEOs in the tech industry.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep289 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 McChitis.

0:16.3

Hello, and thanks so much for joining us

0:20.7

it's here for episode 289 with Cassandra frangos.

0:23.3

Cassandra is laying out what it takes to become a chief something

0:26.8

officer and how to develop the support you need

0:29.7

along the way to make it happen.

0:31.2

So learn one, when to follow and when to disrupt company

0:34.3

culture to one thing you us we listeners and most CEOs have in common and three

0:40.6

had to pick up on the social cues that can make or break your career.

0:44.8

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced,

0:48.8

it's over at awesome at your job.com slash F-289.

0:51.8

And I hope you'll also check out some of our cool resources. One of the coolest resources I'll point you to right now is we made a professional preferences assessment and profile so you can get your customized snazzy graphical report sharing what drives happiness most for you at your job which can be super helpful if you're thinking about whether or not to stay or go in your current role. So you can get that via visiting do I stay

1:15.6

or go.com or doista yorko depending on how you segment words when you have multiple words put together do I's deargo.com

1:25.2

slash doist at yorko and that's silly okay anyway here is the story from

1:30.2

Cassandra Casa de frangos is an educational doctorate who is a consultant on Spencer Stewart's

1:36.0

Leadership Advisory Services team.

1:38.2

She collaborates with Fortune 500 leadership teams on executive assessments, succession

1:42.2

planning, leadership development, development and top team effectiveness.

1:45.2

Previously she was the head of the global executive talent practice at Cisco where she's responsible for

1:51.1

accelerating the readiness of the talent at all levels of the organization

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