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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

538: How to Size People Up and Predict Behavior to Build Better Relationships with Robin Dreeke

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent Robin Dreeke shares how sizing people up can help you build trusting, strong relationships at work.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The overlooked activities that build healthy work relationships. 

2) The six fundamental principles of trust. 

3) The code of trust that builds relationships. 


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—ABOUT ROBIN — 

Robin Dreeke is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He is the founder of People Formula, an organization that offers Advanced Rapport Building Training and Consultation. Robin has taken his life’s work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship into FIVE Steps to TRUST and Six Signs of who you can TRUST.

Since 2010, Robin has been working with large corporations as well small companies in every aspect of their business. He graduated from the US Naval Academy and served in the US Marine Corps. Robin lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

• Book: “Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent’s User Manual for Behavior Prediction”

• Website: www.PeopleFormula.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: “1776” by David McCullough

• Book: “The Jamestown Flood” by David McCullough

• Book: “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough

• Quote: Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena”


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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 fund, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:19.0

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 538 with Robin Dreeke. Boy I just love a good

0:25.2

podcast interview with a former FBI agent. Boy we had Joe Navarro, he was great.

0:29.7

We had Chris Voss, excellent, talking about body language

0:33.5

and negotiating from the perspective of someone

0:37.1

who's been in a lot of crisis hostage negotiations.

0:39.7

Well, now we got Rob and Dreeke, talking

0:41.2

about how to size people up, predict behavior, build trust in relationships, so great stuff. You'll learn one, the overlooked activities that build healthy work relationships, two, the six fundamental principles of trust, and three, the code of trust that builds

0:56.4

relationships. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've

1:00.3

referenced, is it awesome at your job.com slash F-538. Now here's Robin's story.

1:05.2

Rob and Dreeke is the best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer,

1:08.4

facilitator, and retired FBI special agent and chief of the

1:11.7

counter-intelligent Behavioral Analysis Program.

1:15.0

C-BAP, I don't know.

1:17.0

I felt like there must have been an acronym in there.

1:19.0

He's the founder of People Formula, an organization that offers advanced rapport, building, training, and

1:23.6

consultation. Robert has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken down

1:29.0

the art of leadership, communication, and relationship into five steps to trust and

1:32.4

six signs of who you can trust.

1:34.1

Since 2010 Robin has been working with large corporations, as well as small companies in every aspect of their business.

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