631: Accelerating Growth through Coaching with Andrea Wanerstrand
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Wanerstrand shares how widespread coaching has helped transform Microsoft.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why curiosity is the secret sauce to growth
2) Three coaching approaches that accelerate growth
3) How to get into the coach mindset
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— ABOUT ANDREA —
Andrea Wanerstrand works with leaders across the globe in transforming their teams to keep pace and get ahead in today's digital market through developing leadership and management capabilities. She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified executive coach, serves as a global board director with the ICF, and leads the global coaching programs at Microsoft.
With a business strategy focus, Andrea has 15+ years of international experience in organizations from 50 to 100,000+ employees with a multi-industry background including Technology Solutions & Services, Business Management Consulting, and Telecommunications. Expertise in leading the development and management of large-scale global talent lifecycle & development programs specializing in sales, marketing, technical operations, and customer service organizations.
• LinkedIn: Andrea Wanerstrand
• Website: AndreaWanerstrand.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Book: Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Dr. Richard Ferber
• Book: The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Book: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Book: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms by Vishen Lakhiani
• Book: Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters by Kara Goldin
• Company: Hint
• Company: Human Capital Institute
• Company: International Coach Federation
• Past episode: 055: Coaching Questions of Mass Instruction with Michael Bungay Stanier
• Past episode: 297: Encouraging Insight Through More Coach-like Conversations with Michael Bungay Stanier
• Past episode: 555: Why We Fail to Empower, Inspire, and Engage: Unmasking the The Advice Trap with Michael Bungay Stanier
• Personality: Michael Bungay Stanier
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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 |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 631 with Andrea Wannerstrand. |
| 0:23.8 | If you've been intrigued by coaching, think you'd like to do some more of it, get some |
| 0:28.3 | more of it, have a feeling it might make a big difference in your organization. |
| 0:32.6 | Andrea's got a cool story about how coaching really has transformed a lot of stuff over |
| 0:37.4 | at Microsoft. |
| 0:38.4 | So you'll learn one, what curiosity is the secret sauce to growth? |
| 0:42.2 | Two, three coaching approaches that accelerate the growth and three how to get into that |
| 0:48.3 | coaching mindset. |
| 0:49.3 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:52.0 | YouTube reference, drop it by awesome at your job.com slash EP 631. |
| 0:58.2 | If you are listening to this episode in January 2021, hot and fresh, then the episode is |
| 1:03.6 | ad-free as little thank you to listeners and a welcome to new listeners. |
| 1:08.3 | Many of you show up in January. |
| 1:10.1 | So I want to let you know about a couple of the cool features at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:16.5 | And if you've been listening for a long time and know everything, you might want to skip |
| 1:20.1 | ahead a minute or two. |
| 1:21.2 | But if not, and you're new, I say welcome and want to point out four cool resources you |
| 1:26.0 | might love. |
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