603: Easing the Anxiety of Workplace Conflict with Liz Kislik
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Executive coach Liz Kislik discusses do’s and don’ts of conflict management and how to rethink the way you see conflict.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why you don’t need to win every argument
2) The trick to stop conflict before it starts
3) How to make allies in every level
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— ABOUT LIZ —
Liz Kislik is a management consultant, executive coach, and facilitator. For over 30 years, she has helped clients such as American Express, Orvis, The Girl Scouts, Comcast, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Highlights for Children solve their thorniest problems while strengthening their top and bottom lines. Her specialty is developing high performing leaders and workforces.
She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, a TEDx speaker on “Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It,” and has served as adjunct faculty at Hofstra University and New York University. She has also written for the European Financial Review and the Forward.
• TEDx Talk: “Why there’s so much conflict at work and what you can do to fix it.”
• Website: LizKislik.com
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• Personality: Maya Angelou
• TED Talk: "The transformative power of classical music" by Benjamin Zander
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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. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and thanks for joining us here |
| 0:20.9 | for episode 603 with Liz Kislik. |
| 0:23.4 | Liz is going to share how to ease the anxieties that often arise in workplace |
| 0:28.6 | conflicts. You'll learn one, why you don't need to win every argument. |
| 0:31.9 | Two, the trick to stopping conflict before it starts, |
| 0:35.7 | and three, how to make allies at every level. |
| 0:38.5 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams that we reference here, |
| 0:42.1 | visit all some at your job. |
| 0:43.0 | dot com slash EP 603. |
| 0:45.9 | Now here's Liz a story. |
| 0:46.9 | Liz Kist like is a management consultant, executive coach, |
| 0:49.2 | and facilitator, and for over 30 years. |
| 0:51.8 | She's helped clients such as American Express, Orvis, the Girl Scouts, |
| 0:55.8 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and highlights for children solve their thorniest problems while |
| 1:00.6 | strengthening their top and bottom lines. Her specialty is developing high-performing leaders in workforces. |
| 1:05.0 | She's a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, |
| 1:08.0 | Forbes an entrepreneur, a TEDx speaker on why there's so much conflict at work |
| 1:12.0 | and what you can do to fix it and has served as adjunct |
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