667: How to Cultivate Your Influence and Build Powerful Connections with Jon Levy
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jon Levy provides foundational principles for connecting better and building your influence.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why relationships are the #1 predictor of your success
2) How to make networking feel more natural
3) How to build trust quickly with vulnerability loops
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— ABOUT JON —
Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human connection, and decision making. Jon specializes in applying the latest research to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, and culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 brands, like Microsoft, Google, AB-InBev, and Samsung, to startups.
• Jon’s book: You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence
• Jon’s website: jonlevytlb.com
• Jon’s Clubhouse: @jonlevytlb
• Jon’s Facebook: JonLevyTLB
• Jon’s Instagram: jonlevytlb
• Jon’s Twitter: @JonLevyTLB
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes” by Daniel T. Gilbert and Jane E. J. Ebert
• Study: Pratfall Effect
• Book: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
• Book: The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time by Allen Gannett
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 667 with John Levy. |
| 0:23.5 | If you would like to boost your influence and have some more connections |
| 0:29.0 | that can help take you where you'd like to be, John brings the goods. |
| 0:33.5 | See, although in one, why relationships are the number one predictor of your success, |
| 0:37.5 | two, how to make networking feel more natural, |
| 0:40.5 | and three, how to build trust quickly with vulnerability loops. |
| 0:44.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript |
| 0:46.0 | or the links to items that we've referenced here, |
| 0:47.5 | I recommend you drop by awesome at your job.com slash EP667. |
| 0:52.5 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I'd also recommend you check out our |
| 0:56.0 | gold nugget summaries. |
| 0:58.0 | These provide a rundown of the key wisdom bits from each of the gas that you can read |
| 1:05.0 | in about two or three minutes. |
| 1:06.0 | They come right to your inbox and I'd lock the vault of all 667 of these summaries |
| 1:11.5 | when you sign up for the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:14.5 | Now here is John's story. |
| 1:16.0 | John Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human |
| 1:20.0 | connection, and decision making. |
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