550: How to Free Yourself from Conflict with Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler shares what to do when your attempts to resolve conflict fail.
You'll Learn:
1) The simplest way to stop conflict from overwhelming you
2) How to untangle the complex web of recurring conflict
3) The smartest thing to do when a conflict goes nowhere
About Jennifer:
Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler is founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, the New York-based consulting firm that counsels CEOs and their executive teams on how to optimize organizational health and growth. Author of OPTIMAL OUTCOMES: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life (HarperBusiness, Feb. 25, 2020), she is a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, public institutions and innovative, fast-growing startups, where she inspires audiences of all kinds, including those at Google, Harvard and TEDx, and in her popular course at Columbia. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, she is a graduate of Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
- Jennifer’s book: Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life
- Jennifer’s website: OptimalOutcomesBook.com
Resources mentioned in the show:
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- App: Insight Timer
- Personality: Dr. John Gottman
- Book: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood
- Book: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
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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 Lekitis. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here |
| 0:21.2 | for episode 550 with Dr. Jennifer Goldman Wetsler. |
| 0:25.6 | Dr. Jennifer is going to share what to do when you're trying to resolve some conflict |
| 0:30.5 | and it's just not going anywhere. So you'll learn one, the simplest way to stop conflict |
| 0:35.0 | from overwhelming you. |
| 0:36.3 | Two, how to untangle the complex web of recurring conflict. |
| 0:40.3 | And three, the smartest thing to do when a conflict goes nowhere. |
| 0:44.1 | You can check out our show notes and transcript and links to items we've referenced. |
| 0:47.3 | Over to awesome at your job.com slash F550, or in certain podcast apps you can see them right in your show notes or episode description and |
| 0:56.8 | tap the links and in some you can't it drives me insane. |
| 0:59.7 | My team and I've been trying to untangle that conflict, but it is what it is and we're going to do a couple |
| 1:07.4 | little formatting changes and that's about as good as it can be. |
| 1:12.4 | Anyway, here's Jennifer's story. |
| 1:14.0 | Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetsler |
| 1:16.0 | is founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, |
| 1:19.0 | the New York-based consulting firm that councils CEOs and their executive teams on how to optimize organizational health and growth. |
| 1:26.0 | She's the author of optimal outcomes, free yourself from conflict at work at home and in life, published just recently. |
| 1:32.0 | She's also a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, |
| 1:35.0 | public institutions, and innovative fast-drawing startups where she inspires audiences of all kinds, |
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