516: Making Difficult Conversations Easier with David Wood
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
David Wood shares his process for making difficult conversations more manageable.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) What makes difficult conversations so difficult.
2) The four-step blueprint for tackling difficult conversations.
3) The simplest way to receive more quality feedback.
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— ABOUT DAVID —
After life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 Companies, David built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for "life coaching."
He wants every human to play the best game they possibly can in work AND life and to have zero-regrets when they die. David coaches both high performing leaders, and soon-to-be-released prison inmates, to higher levels of Truth, Daring and Caring.
• David’s podcast: Tough Conversations with David Wood
• David’s website: PlayForReal.life
• Tool: David’s four-step blueprint
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
• Personality: Byron Katie
• Term: Somatic sequencing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | 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 McChitis. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here. |
| 0:21.2 | For episode 516 with David Wood. |
| 0:23.3 | David is sharing how to make difficult conversations all the more manageable. |
| 0:26.6 | So you'll learn one what makes difficult conversations so difficult in the first place. |
| 0:30.9 | Two, the four-step blueprint for tackling such conversations and three the |
| 0:35.4 | simplest way to receive more quality feedback so if you want to take a look at the |
| 0:38.9 | show notes or the transcript or the links towns we've referenced it's over at all |
| 0:42.0 | Sm at your job dot com slash F-516. |
| 0:44.6 | And if it's your first time listening to how to be awesome at your job, |
| 0:47.1 | I see there's some new folks. |
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| 1:05.1 | So you might want to get started there and welcome to the family. |
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