427: The Way to Get Alignment With Your Boss, with Pete Mockaitis
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Pete Mockaitis: How to be Awesome at Your Job
Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and coach who helps professionals perform optimally at work. He hosts the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast, a show that has been downloaded eight million times and consistently ranks as a top business show in Apple Podcasts.
Pete facilitates training for organizations on enhanced thinking and collaboration to increase clarity and reduce rework. He helps teams save an average of 1.4 hours per person per week.
In this conversation, Pete and I explore some of the key mindsets and questions that are helpful when getting alignment with your boss. We explore the areas you’ll want to generate clarity, as well a few key questions to consider.
Key Points
Six areas where clarity is critical:
- Deliverables
- Timing
- Process
- Resources
- Audience
- Motive
Questions you may consider when getting alignment with your boss:
- How do you want this to look when complete?
- What does the organization value on metrics and deliverables?
- What’s an example of a time this expectation was not met?
- What metrics are my boss being measured on for their own success?
Resources Mentioned
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| 0:00.0 | Your boss says something really generic about what she expects and you're not quite sure what to do next. |
| 0:06.0 | How to handle getting alignment with your boss in this chat with Pete McKitus. |
| 0:11.0 | This is coaching for leaders episode 427. |
| 0:14.8 | Produced by Innovate Learning |
| 0:17.6 | Maximizing Human Potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:29.7 | host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you |
| 0:36.2 | discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. |
| 0:41.2 | So much of our conversations involve how we set expectations and how we get alignment. |
| 0:47.5 | And one of those key key places for us to be able to get alignment with is our boss. |
| 0:53.3 | The person that oversees our work, |
| 0:55.5 | and of course there's all kinds of different relationships |
| 0:57.5 | we all have with bosses and managers throughout our careers, |
| 1:00.8 | but there are some key principles that we can take and put into action in order to |
| 1:06.1 | get alignment in the best possible way. |
| 1:08.3 | I am glad to welcome back to the show today, someone who is absolutely an expert on helping people to be |
| 1:14.6 | awesome at their work and to communicate well with others. That is Pete |
| 1:18.6 | McItis. Pete is the host of the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | Pete has a large and loyal following |
| 1:26.5 | and his show is regularly listed |
| 1:28.2 | as one of the top career shows on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:31.4 | He facilitates training for organizations on enhanced thinking and |
| 1:35.2 | collaboration to help organizations clarify and reduce their rework. He's a master at saving teams an average of 1.4 hours per person per week and |
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