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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

484: The Overlooked Basic Skills Essential for Career Success with Dean Karrel

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karrel makes the case for mastering the basic skills that will put you above the rest. 


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) How “B students” can achieve more in their careers. 

2) How to survive and thrive in office politics. 

3) The secret to building unshakable confidence. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep484 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT DEAN —

Dean Karrel is a Career and Executive Coach. He is the instructor of twelve courses with over 600,000 views available on LinkedIn Learning and has also been in senior leadership positions for more than three decades with major global publishing companies, including 22 years at Wiley. Karrel has hired and trained thousands of people at various stages of their careers, motivating them to maximize their abilities. 

• Dean’s Book: Mastering the Basics: Simple Lessons for Achieving Success in Business 

• Dean’s Company: The Skyridge Group 

• Dean’s LinkedIn: Dean Karrel 

• Dean’s Courses: Dean Karrel 

• Dean’s Twitter: @DeanKarrel 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni 

• Book: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel Goleman 

• Book: Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry 


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Transcript

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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 484 with Dean Carroll. Dean has got some great stuff to say

0:25.4

about mastering the basics and it might seem boring like exercise in broccoli but I

0:30.2

think it's so powerful and so overlooked.

0:33.4

So I hope you'll join us to learn one, how B students can achieve more in their careers.

0:37.2

Two, how to survive and thrive in office politics and three, the secret to building

0:41.9

unshakable confidence.

0:43.2

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

0:45.4

Adams we've referenced, it's over to all to make your job.

0:47.8

Com slash F four eight four.

0:49.2

Now here's Dean's story.

0:50.6

Dean Carroll is a career and executive coach.

0:52.3

He is the instructor of 12

0:54.2

courses with over 600,000 views available on LinkedIn learning and has also

0:58.2

been in senior leadership positions for more than three decades with major

1:01.6

global publishing companies including 22 years at Wiley.

1:05.1

Carol has hired and trained thousands of people at various stages of their careers, motivating

1:10.0

them to maximize their abilities.

1:12.0

Thanks to Dean for spending some good time with us and thanks to our sponsors.

1:15.8

Check them out.

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