629: How to Find and Use Your Strengths with Lea Waters
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Lea Waters talks about tools you need to tap into your strengths.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The best way to tap into your strengths
2) Why our strengths are often hiding–and how to find them
3) The hack that halts anxiety
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— ABOUT LEA —
Lea Waters AM, PhD is a psychologist, researcher, professor, published author, internationally-celebrated keynote speaker and one of the world’s leading experts on Positive Education, Positive Organizations and Strength-Based Parenting and Teaching.
Professor Waters is the Founding Director and Inaugural Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne where she has held an academic position for more than 23 years.
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• Survey: Via Character Strengths Survey
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 629 with Leo Waters, Leah is talking positive |
| 0:24.3 | psychology and strengths, how to find them, use them, great stuff, you'll learn one. |
| 0:28.5 | The best way to tap into your strengths, too, why are strengths are often hiding and |
| 0:32.6 | how to spot them, and three, the hack that haunts anxiety. |
| 0:36.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've |
| 0:39.8 | referenced, check out awesome at your job.com slash EP 629. |
| 0:44.6 | That's awesome at your job.com slash app, and then the numerals 629er. |
| 0:49.8 | Now here is Leah's story, Leah Waters, a.m. PhD as a psychologist, researcher, professor, |
| 0:54.7 | published author, internationally celebrated keynote speaker, and one of the world's leading |
| 0:58.7 | experts on positive education, positive organizations, and strength based parenting and teaching. |
| 1:04.0 | Professor Waters is the founding director and inaugural Gary Higgins Chair in positive |
| 1:07.9 | psychology at the center for positive psychology at the University of Melbourne, where she has |
| 1:13.6 | held an academic position for more than 23 years. |
| 1:17.6 | Big thanks to Leah for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:20.8 | Check them out. |
| 1:22.3 | And now here's Leah. |
| 1:24.7 | Leah, thanks for joining us here at the how to be awesome at your job podcast. |
| 1:27.9 | Hey Pete, thanks for having me. |
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