590: Forming Strong Connections through Authority, Warmth, and Energy with Steve Herz
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Steve Hertz discusses why we need to change our relationship with feedback and how to develop the three skills that advance our careers.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why you shouldn’t take yes for an answer
2) The small things that make us more authoritative
3) How to keep conversations energizing and engaging
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— ABOUT STEVE —
Steve Herz is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, an industry leader whose broadcasting division became one of the largest in the space, representing over 200 television and radio personalities.
Herz received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. Steve is involved with several charities, including serving on the local leadership council at Birthright Israel. Steve is married with two children and lives on the Upper West Side of New York City.
• Steve’s book: Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results
• Steve’s website: StevenHerz.com
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• Experiment: Project Oxygen
• Past episode: 458: How to End Bad Behavior and Renew Your Team Amidst Change with Steve Ritter
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 590 |
| 0:22.4 | with Steve Hers. |
| 0:23.5 | Steve is going to share how you can form outstanding connections with others. |
| 0:28.0 | So all learned, one, why you shouldn't take yes for an answer. |
| 0:30.8 | Two, the small things that make us |
| 0:33.3 | owe so much more authoritative. |
| 0:35.0 | And three, how to keep conversations |
| 0:37.1 | energizing and engaging. |
| 0:38.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes |
| 0:40.1 | or the transcript or the links to items |
| 0:41.8 | that we've referenced, visit also at your job.com. or the which provides summary insights from Steve and every guest who has gone before him in a quick written email and archive of those emails you can read in under three minutes each. |
| 1:01.2 | That's called the Gold Nuggets. Now here's |
| 1:03.1 | Steve Hers is president of the Monte group, a sports entertainment talent and |
| 1:07.3 | marketing consultancy. He's also career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and |
| 1:11.4 | young professionals. Prior to joining the |
| 1:13.3 | Monte group, Steve was the president and founding partner at I.F. |
| 1:17.8 | Management, an industry leader whose Broadcasting Division became one of the largest in |
| 1:21.8 | the space, representing over 200 television and radio |
| 1:25.0 | personalities. |
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