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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

555: Why We Fail to Empower, Inspire, and Engage: Unmasking the The Advice Trap with Michael Bungay Stanier

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Michael Bungay Stanier explains why we need to stop giving advice and start asking questions instead.


You'll Learn:

1) Three reasons why advice is overrated.

2) A step-by-step process for breaking your advice-giving habit.

3) How to ask more insightful questions.


About Michael:

Michael Bungay Stanier is an author and the founder of Box of Crayons, a company best known for teaching 10-minute coaching so that busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results. He was named the first Canadian Coach of the Year. He left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

Michael has been featured in several publications such as Business Insider, Forbes, The Globe & Mail, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post. He has held senior positions in the corporate, consultancy, and agency worlds. He has lived and worked in Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada. He currently lives in Toronto.


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Transcript

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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 McKitis.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here

0:20.6

for episode 555 with Michael Bunge Stagner.

0:23.9

I hope you're doing well, staying safe and sane amidst this lockdown quarantine work

0:28.2

from home situation.

0:30.4

And I hope that this show is providing an array of sunshine and positive

0:33.9

upbeatness. I've heard that before and I hope we're continuing to do it for you now.

0:37.6

Michael's got some pro tips about a key reason why we can fall short and we want to

0:41.7

empower, inspire, engage. It is because we can fall short we want to empower, inspire, engage it is because we can

0:44.9

all too often fall to giving advice. So whether you're interacting with folks

0:49.4

virtually or in person, Michael's got some timeless tips to share here.

0:53.0

So you'll learn one, three reasons why advice is overrated,

0:56.0

do a step-by-step process for breaking your advice giving habit.

0:59.0

And three, how to ask more insightful questions.

1:02.0

If you want to check out the show notes,

1:03.0

the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,

1:05.0

you can tap inside the episode notes

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or show description in your podcast app player of choice

1:10.0

or visit awesome at your job

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