605: How to Stop Firefighting and Start Executing with Chris McChesney
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Chris McChesney discusses how to achieve more with your team by following the four disciplines of execution.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The three roadblocks to execution
2) The only two things that create engagement
3) How to instill accountability in 20 minutes
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— ABOUT CHRIS —
Chris McChesney is the Global Practice Leader of Execution for Franklin Covey and is one of the primary developers of the 4 Disciplines of Execution. For more than a decade, he has led FranklinCovey’s design and development of these principles, as well as the consulting organization that has become the fastest growing area of the company.
Known for his high-energy and engaging message, Chris has become one of the most requested speakers within the Franklin Covey Organization, regularly delivering keynote speeches and executive presentations to leaders in audiences ranging from the hundreds to several thousand.
Chris, and his wife Constance, are the proud parents of five daughters and two sons. His love of family is combined with his passion for boating, water sports, coaching, and trying to keep up with his children.
• Chris’ book: The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, with Sean Covey and Jim Huling
• Chris’ website: ChrisMcChesney4dx.com
• Chris’ FranklinCovey profile: Chris McChesney
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Lose It!
• TED Talk: Tim Harford | TEDGlobal 2011 Trial, error and the God complex
• Article: “The Power of Small Wins”
• Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey
• Book: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick Lencioni
• Book: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Book: Mastery by Robert Greene
• Company: FranklinCovey
• Previous episode: 552: The Foundational Principle that Separates Good Leaders from Bad Ones with Pat Lencioni
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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 Machitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 6005 with Chris McChesney. |
| 0:23.7 | Chris is here and how to escape the urgency trap and start executing on what really matters. |
| 0:28.8 | You'll learn one, the three roadblocks to execution. |
| 0:31.8 | Two, the only two things that create engagement |
| 0:34.7 | and three, how to instill accountability in just 20 minutes. So if you want to |
| 0:39.0 | check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams we've |
| 0:41.2 | referenced, you can visit |
| 0:42.6 | awesome at your job.com slash EP 605. And if you're visiting awesome at |
| 0:47.6 | your job.com I encourage you to check out some cool resources such as the |
| 0:51.2 | gold nugget email list which provides summary, wisdom, and insight. |
| 0:55.9 | It's like a Cliff's notes, if you will, a Reader's Digest of the actionable wisdom from Chris in an email you can read in about three minutes |
| 1:06.0 | as well as all of the guests who've gone before Chris you get access to that whole vault |
| 1:10.4 | called the gold nuggets over at awesome at your job |
| 1:12.9 | dot com. |
| 1:14.0 | Now here's Chris's story. |
| 1:15.0 | Chris McChasney is the global practice leader of execution for Franklin Covey |
| 1:19.5 | and is one of the primary developers of the four disciplines of execution. |
| 1:23.3 | For more than a decade he has led Franklin Covey's design and development of these principles |
| 1:27.4 | as well as the consulting organization that has become the fastest growing area of the company. |
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