541: Increasing Your Contribution and Fulfillment at Work with Tom Rath
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Tom Rath discusses how to find greater meaning in your job.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How to find your unique style of contribution.
2) Two easy ways to recharge your energy.
3) A powerful way to make any job feel more meaningful.
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— ABOUT TOM —
Tom Rath is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and well-being. His 10 books have sold more than 10 million copies and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists.
During his 13 years at Gallup, Tom was the Program Leader for the development of Clifton StrengthsFinder, which has helped over 20 million people to uncover their talents, and went on to lead the organization’s employee engagement, wellbeing, and leadership practices worldwide.
Most recently, Tom co-founded a publishing company and he is also an advisor, investor, and partner in several startups. Tom holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Ashley, and their two children.
• Tom’s book: Life’s Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World
• Tom’s book: StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Tom’s book: Eat, Move, Sleep
• Tom’s book: How Full Is Your Bucket?
• Tom’s website: Contribify.com
• Tom’s website: TomRath.org
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 541 |
| 0:22.0 | with Tom Rath. |
| 0:23.1 | Tom of Strengthsfinder fame is now bringing his analytical, statistical brilliance |
| 0:28.8 | to talk about contribution. |
| 0:30.5 | What's your unique style of contribution, |
| 0:32.4 | how you can enjoy more of that in the associated |
| 0:35.4 | fulfillment and enjoyment that emerges when you do so? So you'll learn one, how to find your |
| 0:40.1 | unique style of contribution. Two, easy ways to recharge your energy, and three, a powerful |
| 0:45.2 | way to make any job feel more meaningful. |
| 0:47.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums we've referenced, |
| 0:50.9 | it's over at awesome at your job.com slash |
| 0:52.8 | eep 541. |
| 0:54.4 | Speaking of awesome at your job dot com, |
| 0:56.0 | we've got a couple fun announcements. |
| 0:57.5 | One announcement, I've mentioned this in the email, |
| 1:00.3 | if you receive the gold nuggets or other emails from me is we are having a little party |
| 1:04.8 | we're celebrating 10 million downloads so if you happen to be able to make it to the |
| 1:10.4 | Chicago land area on leap day February 29th, we're having a fun dinner. |
| 1:16.8 | It should be a small group, maybe 10 people, maybe 50 people, maybe you. |
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