616: How to Handle Work in a World Where Everything’s Urgent with Brandon Smith

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🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Smith shares how to cut through non-stop urgency and work on what’s truly important.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How urgency is just like hot sauce

2) What your boss really means when they say everything’s urgent

3) How to expertly say no to extra work

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— ABOUT BRANDON —

Brandon went from not being able to order a pizza due to a debilitating stutter to becoming a master communicator.

He went on to teach communication in two leading business schools and has won 12 teaching awards for his work in the classroom.

Through his work with businesses, Brandon has helped countless employees go from being on the verge of getting fired to becoming some of the company’s top performers.

Brandon learnt the secret of urgency, what he calls ‘Hot Sauce’ and how different people react differently to it. Today he is the author of The Hot Sauce Principle.

Used in the right amount, hot sauce can be the very thing that turns a bland or stressful workplace into a place of flavourful productivity.

• Brandon’s book: The Hot Sauce Principle: How to Live and Lead in a World Where Everything Is Urgent All of the Time

• Brandon’s website: TheWorkplaceTherapist.com

• Brandon’s LinkedIn: Brandon Smith

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

• Previous episode: 073: Leading Change with Dr. John Kotter

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:16.1	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 616 with Brandon Smith.
0:23.6	If you feel like there is a smidge too much urgency in your world, like everything's
0:28.1	urgent, Brandon's got some pro tips on how to deal with that.
0:32.2	So you'll learn one, how urgency is a lot like hot sauce, too.
0:36.2	What your boss really means when they say everything's urgent, and three, how to expertly
0:41.3	say no.
0:42.3	So if you want to check out your show notes or your transcript or the links to outings
0:45.0	we've referenced, you'll find that at awesomeatyourjob.com such EP 616.
0:49.8	And also, I hope you don't feel overwhelmed by all the episodes we got 616 while, if
0:55.7	you feel a sense of urgency or overwhelm there, check out the Golden Nuggets, which provide
1:01.4	summary wisdom of each episode.
1:03.4	So you can read that in an email in about three minutes that arrive on the day, an episode
1:07.4	comes out as well as get access to the vault of all the episodes.
1:10.6	So you can be all the more choosy with which ones that you're going to listen to in their
1:15.4	fullness versus read more quickly.
1:18.6	Let's go to Golden Nuggets at awesomeatyourjob.com.
1:21.3	And now here's Brandon's story.
1:22.8	Brandon went from not being able to order pizza due to a debilitating stutter to becoming
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