315: Leading with Speed with Alan Willett
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Alan Willett shows how to lead with speed by measuring and tracking yourself, working smarter rather than longer, and having purpose. All the things that are need to stay competitive.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to work faster and smarter rather than longer
2) Approaches to accelerate the decision making progress
3) Why and how to let people “add an egg”
About Alan
Alan Willett is of the rare species who is an expert international consultant, speaker, and author. He has worked with companies ranging from 1 person to some of the giants such as Microsoft and NASA. Alan says that his passion is helping people and organizations transform their friction points into profit points. Alan defines a friction point as “the space where the business needs and the implementation reality collides.” There is always heat generated! Alan is the expert who transforms organizational friction points to produce positive results for the business and the people.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Alan’s website: AlanWillett.com
- Previous episode: Episode 114: Delivering Powerful Feedback for Powerful Results with Alan Willett
- Alan’s Book: Leading the Unleadable
- Alan’s Coaching: EmbraceFriction.com
- Book: The Essence of Value by Mario Pricken
- Tool: Apple pencil
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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. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here |
| 0:21.2 | for episode 315 with Alan Willitt. |
| 0:23.6 | Alan was a smash hit in his previous episode number 114. |
| 0:28.0 | So we have him back to talk about how to lead with speed. |
| 0:30.8 | So you all learn one, how to work faster and smarter rather than longer. |
| 0:34.8 | Two approaches to accelerate the decision-making process and three why and how to let people add an egg. |
| 0:42.4 | So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the |
| 0:44.4 | transcript or the links to items that we've referenced you'll find it over at |
| 0:47.5 | awesome at your job.com slash F315 and while at awesome at your job |
| 0:51.9 | dot com I encourage you to check out some cool stuff one cool thing I recommend is the |
| 0:56.4 | gold nugget email list so if you wish you could take notes on these insightful |
| 1:00.7 | conversations but your hands are tied up doing a workout or doing other work. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, we take those notes for you and send them to your inbox, and that's available over |
| 1:09.9 | at awesome at your job.com.. Now here's Alan's story. |
| 1:13.0 | Alan Willit is of the rare species who's an expert international consultant, speaker, and author. |
| 1:18.0 | He has worked with companies ranging from one person to some of the giants such as Microsoft and NASA. |
| 1:22.4 | Alan says that his passion is helping people |
| 1:24.7 | an organization transform their friction points |
| 1:27.6 | into profit points. |
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