577: The Path Towards Joy in Your Career, with David Novak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

David Novak: Take Charge of You David Novak is Co-Founder, retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company with over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories. During his tenure as CEO, Yum! Brands became a global powerhouse, growing from $4 billion in revenue to over $32 billion. After retiring in 2016, he became Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life. David is also the host of the top-ranked podcast, How Leaders Lead and founder of the leadership development platform of the same name. An expert on leadership and recognition culture, David is also a New York Times bestselling author. His books include Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen, O GREAT ONE! A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition, and his latest book with Jason Goldsmith, Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career*. In this conversation, David and I discuss the importance of finding joy in our careers. David highlights several of the key questions that he utilizes when helping others to uncover how joy can show up their work. He encourages us to surface the single biggest thing that’s important right now in order to get immediate traction. Key Points Sometimes your best (and only) coach is yourself. Use joy as your destination finder. Find your joy blockers by asking yourself: what’s getting in the way of my joy? Your worst days often provide insight on this. Discover your joy builders by asking yourself: what would grow your joy personal and professionally? Your most memorable days are starting points for answers here. Your goal is to surface your single biggest thing. This changes over time, but ideally is only one thing, one at a time. That’s how you gain traction. Resources Mentioned Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career* by David Novak and Jason Goldsmith Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Find Your Calling, with Ken Coleman (episode 352) Align Your Work With Your Why, with Kwame Marfo (episode 542) How to Nail a Job Transition, with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (episode 555) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	So many of us want to find joy in our work, but we're often too caught up in the daily tasks to look at the big picture.
0:07.0	In this episode, one of the most successful executive leaders on the key questions you can ask yourself to begin finding joy in your career.
0:17.0	This is Coaching for Leaders Episode 577.
0:21.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:30.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:33.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.
0:37.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:40.0	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:45.0	Of course, we talk so much about coaching on the show and the importance of being coach-like and coaching others.
0:52.0	And an element of that, of course, is self-coaching.
0:56.0	How do we look inward? Today we're going to do that a whole bunch and also look at it through the lens of joy.
1:03.0	How do we find more joy in our work and use that as a starting point for really helping us to create movement and really take charge of our own careers and our own development?
1:14.0	I'm so glad to welcome an expert today who's going to help us with so much perspective on this.
1:18.0	David Novak is co-founder and the retired chairman and CEO of Young Brands, the world's largest restaurant company with over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories.
1:31.0	During his tenure as CEO, Young Brands became a global powerhouse, growing from 4 billion in revenue to over 32 billion.
1:38.0	After retiring in 2016, he became founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life.
1:46.0	David is also the host of the top-ranked podcast, How Leaders Lead, and founder of the Leadership Development Platform of the same name.
1:53.0	An expert on leadership and recognition culture, David is also a New York Times best-selling author.
1:58.0	His books include Taking People With You, The Only Way To Make Big Things Happen.
2:02.0	Oh, great one, a little story about the awesome power of recognition.
2:06.0	And his latest book with Jason Goldsmith, Take Charge Of You, How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career.
2:14.0	David, what a pleasure to have you on the show.
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