480: How to Become Ridiculously Likable with Vanessa Van Edwards
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Researcher Vanessa Van Edwards explains what causes people to like one another and how to make great impressions.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Proven ways for making a fantastic first impression.
2) What builds and what kills likability the fastest.
3) Good and bad questions to ask during first meetings.
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— ABOUT VANESSA —
Vanessa Van Edwards is a behavioral investigator at her human behavior research lab, the Science of People. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting behavior hacks for audiences around the world. She is a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine and the Huffington Post. Her popular courses on Creative Live and Udemy have over 120,000 enrolled students. She’s been featured on NPR, CNN, Forbes and USA Today, but more importantly, she’s addicted to sour patch kids, airplane coffee and puppies.
• Vanessa’s Book: “Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People”
• Vanessa’s Facial Expression Guide: ScienceOfPeople.com/face
• Vanessa’s TED Talk: You are contagious | TEDxLondon
• Vanessa’s Website: Science of People
• Vanessa’s YouTube: Vanessa Van Edwards
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: “Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps” by Barbara and Allan Pease
• Researcher: Dr. Paul Ekman
• Term: Expectancy effect
• Personality research: The Big Five Personality Test
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 480 with Vanessa Van Edwards. I think you'll dig this conversation |
| 0:24.4 | because Vanessa shares how to form great first impressions, what makes people like |
| 0:29.0 | you and key facial expressions you can read that can just sort of change the whole game. |
| 0:34.0 | So you'll learn one proven ways for making a fantastic first impression. |
| 0:37.9 | Two, what builds and kills like ability the fastest and three good and bad questions to ask during first meetings. |
| 0:45.0 | So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, |
| 0:49.0 | it's on over at awesome at your job.com slash F-480. And now here's Vanessa's story. |
| 0:54.0 | Vanessa Van Edwards is a behavioral investigator at her human behavior research lab, the |
| 0:58.6 | science of people. She's a professional people watch her speaking, researching, |
| 1:02.1 | and cracking the code of interesting behavior |
| 1:04.1 | hacks for audiences around the world. |
| 1:06.6 | She's a columnist for Entrepreneur magazine and The Huffington Post. |
| 1:09.6 | Her popular courses on Creative Live and Udemy have over 120,000 enrolled students. |
| 1:15.0 | She's been featured on NPR, CNN, Forbes, and USA Today, |
| 1:18.0 | but more importantly, she's addicted to Sour Patch Kids, Air Plains, Coffee, and Puppies. So thanks to Vanessa for spending some time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out. |
| 1:29.0 | Now, here's Vanessa. |
| 1:31.0 | Vanessa, thanks for joining us on how to be awesome at your job. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, thanks for having me. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, I'm excited to dig into this conversation. |
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