498: Nourishing the Relationships That Nourish You with Dr. John Townsend
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. John Townsend discusses how to build the relationships that keep you motivated and productive.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The one need leaders often ignore.
2) How to engage in nourishing conversations.
3) The five relationships you need in your life—and the two to prune.
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— ABOUT JOHN —
Dr. John Townsend is a nationally-known leadership consultant, psychologist, and New York Times bestselling author. John is the founder of the Townsend Institute, Leadership and Counseling, and the Townsend Leadership Program, which is a a a nationwide system of leadership training groups. He developed the online digital platform TownsendNOW and the online assessment tool TPRAT. Dr. Townsend travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking, and helping develop leaders, their teams and their families.
• John’s book: People Fuel: Fill Your Tank for Life, Love, and Leadership
• John’s website: DrTownsend.com
• Tool: Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool (TPRAT)
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “The Mirror-Neuron System” by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero
• TED Talk: “How great leaders inspire action” | Simon Sinek
• Book: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
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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 498 |
| 0:21.7 | with Dr. John Townsend. |
| 0:23.2 | John is sharing how to build the relationships you need |
| 0:26.0 | that keep you motivated, productive, rock, and rolling. |
| 0:28.7 | So y'all learn one, the one need leaders often ignore. |
| 0:31.7 | Two, how to engage nourishing conversations, and three, the five |
| 0:35.8 | relationships you need in life and the two you need to prune. |
| 0:39.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced. It's at |
| 0:43.0 | awesome at your job.com slash 498 and I recommend if you want to check out |
| 0:48.2 | those things all the faster you can just simply expand the episode notes or show description in your |
| 0:53.4 | podcast app player of choice and in so doing get there with your taps. |
| 0:58.6 | Now here's John's story. Dr John Townsend is a nationally known leadership consultant psychologist and New York |
| 1:04.2 | Times best-selling author. John is the founder of the Townsend Institute, a nationwide system of |
| 1:09.4 | leadership trading groups. He developed the online digital platform Townsend now and Now, and the online assessment tool, T-Praut. |
| 1:15.0 | Dr. Talon travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking, and helping develop leaders, their |
| 1:19.9 | teams, and their families. |
| 1:21.2 | Big thanks to John for sharing his wisdom with us, |
| 1:23.6 | and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:24.9 | Check them out. |
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