340: The Benefit of Being a Rookie, with Liz Wiseman

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Liz Wiseman: Rookie Smarts

Liz Wiseman is listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world and recipient of the 2016 ATD Champion of Talent Award. She is the author of three best-selling books, including Multipliers* and Rookie Smarts*.

Key Points

When we’re outside of our area of expertise, we have a leaner’s advantage that helps us think outside the box.
When veterans look at tough situations, they look inside. Rookies look to the outside, which often makes them more flexible and creative.
It’s more critical to be able to access what’s in other people’s heads than to keep everything in your own.
In today’s fast-paced world, we’re constantly doing things that have no precedent. In this environment, it’s better to be a quick learner than to try to know everything.
When we make mistakes but admit and then fix them, we end up with even happier customers and stakeholders.
It’s good for you to say yes to things you don’t totally know how to do because it keeps you in a healthy rookie mindset.

Resources Mentioned

Living and Working With Child-like Wonder (Liz’s TED talk)
Rookie Smarts* by Liz Wiseman
Multipliers* by Liz Wiseman

Book Notes

Download my highlights from Rookie Smarts in PDF format (free membership required).

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0:00.0	It's often uncomfortable being the rookie on the team, but it turns out that being the new kid on the block can pay off in some pretty big ways if you're willing to be smart about it.
0:12.0	On this episode, Liz Wiseman returns to the show to
0:15.2	help us all leverage our rookie smarts. This is coaching for leaders, episode 340.
0:21.6	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:38.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader.
0:47.0	The best leaders I know are always learning, they're growing, they're asking good questions.
0:53.4	It's many of the things we hear about in leadership books that we read and in the conversations
0:59.2	on this show.
1:00.4	And yet, there is the tendency for a lot of us when we get into difficult situations and sometimes just the everyday situations to want to be the expert, to aspire to be the expert.
1:12.0	And today's guest is really going to challenge us to think
1:16.5	a little bit more like a rookie. I am really glad to welcome back to the show Liz Wiseman Liz teaches leadership to executives
1:25.2	and emerging leaders around the world. She's listed on the Thinkers 50
1:29.2	ranking and named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world and she's the recipient of the 2016
1:36.5	ATD Champion of Talent Award, a former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the
1:42.2	course of 17 years as the VP of
1:45.1	Oracle University and as the Global Leader for Human Resource Development.
1:49.6	She is the author of three best-selling books including multipliers which he was on the show
1:54.5	previously speaking to us about and the books she's here to speak with us here about today called
1:59.5	Ricky Smarts. Liz I am so glad to welcome me back to the show.
2:03.0	Well, Dave, it's good to be back, you know, I was just thinking, you had me at the title for your
2:07.6	show, coaching for leaders because these are two of my favorite topics.
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