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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

651: How to Defuse Verbal Conflict and Prevent Toxicity from Ruining Your Day with Sam Horn

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sam Horn explains how to deal with difficult people more effectively by shifting the language we use. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Words to lose and words to use in a conflict 

2) The mindset shift that makes us feel like less like a victim 

3) Two strategies for dealing with workplace bullies 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep651 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT SAM — 

Sam Horn, is the CEO of the Intrigue Agency and the Tongue Fu! Training Institute. Her 3 TEDx talks and 9 books - including Tongue Fu!, POP!, Got Your Attention? and SOMEDAY is Not a Day in the Week - have been featured in NY Times, on NPR, and presented to hundreds of organizations worldwide including Intel, Cisco, Boeing, U.S. Navy, Nationwide, and Fidelity. 

• Sam’s book: Tongue Fu!: Deflect, Disarm, & Diffuse Any Verbal Conflict 

• Sam’s book: ConZentrate: Get Focused and Pay Attention--When Life Is Filled with Pressures, Distractions, and Multiple Priorities 

• Sam’s book: Take the Bully by the Horns: Stop Unethical, Uncooperative, or Unpleasant People from Running and Ruining Your Life 

• Sam’s website: SamHorn.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant 

• Book: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley 

• Podcast: Good Life Project 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast the show where brilliant

0:05.4

professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at

0:09.4

work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host

0:14.8

Peek McHydus.

0:18.3

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 651 with Sam Horn. If you've got

0:23.9

some verbal conflicts in your world, some toxicity, some bullying, some

0:28.7

yuck, Sam's got some pro tips and tools to help you with that. She is a keynote

0:33.9

speaker and I just love her memorable turns of phrases that's a whole lot of fun.

0:38.3

See, I'll learn one words to lose and words to use in a conflict to the mindset

0:43.3

shift that makes us feel less like a victim and three, a couple strategies for

0:47.9

dealing with workplace bullied. So if you want to check out the show notes with

0:50.4

the transcript or the links to as we've referenced, you can find it over at

0:52.7

awesome at your job.com slash EP651. And while you're at awesome at your job.com,

0:58.5

I recommend you check out some of our cool resources such as the gold nuggets

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which provide summary email wisdom from each of the guests. You can get them

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right on the day the episode releases. So you can hear a quick or something

1:10.1

right up of of Sam's insights as well as access to the vault of all 651 such

1:15.3

right ups. That's the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. Now here's Sam

1:19.0

story. Sam Horn is the CEO of the intrigue agency and the Tung Fu training

1:24.3

institute her three TEDx talks and nine books, including Tung Fu pop got your

1:29.2

attention and someday is not a day in the week. Having featured in the New York

1:32.8

Times on NPR and presented to hundreds of organizations worldwide, including

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