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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

669: Making More Impact as a Middle Manager with Scott Mautz

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Scott Mautz returns with best practices for leading up, down, and across your organization. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The mindset for middle management success 

2) How to keep progressing with the 50/50 rule 

3) The trick to giving excellent feedback 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep669 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT SCOTT — 

Scott Mautz is a high-octane speaker expert at igniting peak performance and deep employee engagement, motivation, and inspiration. He’s a Procter & Gamble veteran who successfully ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses, an award-winning/best-selling author, faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for Executive Education, a former top Inc.com columnist (over 1 million monthly readers), and a frequent national publication and podcast guest. 

• Scott’s book: Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization 

• Toolkit: ScottMautz.com/freetools 

• Scott’s website: ScottMautz.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by James Collins 

• Previous episode: 605: How to Stop Firefighting and Start Executing with Chris McChesney 


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

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Transcript

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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.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete McIdest.

0:16.6

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 669 with Scott Mouts.

0:24.4

Scott is back in this time.

0:26.0

He has got boat loads of best practices.

0:29.2

If you find yourself in the middle of your organization, how do you effectively lead

0:33.1

up, down, and across to make a big impact and to not go insane if you find yourself

0:38.6

in the challenging role of middle management?

0:40.7

So you'll learn one, the mindset for middle management success.

0:43.8

Two, how to keep progressing with the 50-50 rule and three, the trick to giving excellent

0:48.7

feedback.

0:49.7

If you want to check out the show notes or the transcripts or some of the links to items

0:52.3

we mentioned here, it's over at also at your job.com slash EP669.

0:57.1

If you're at also at your job.com, I encourage you to check out the Gold Nuggets, which provide

1:00.7

a summary download of the wisdom that Scott had to share.

1:05.6

You can read it right from your email inbox.

1:08.6

In under three minutes, each one comes out the day the episode is released, audio style,

1:13.6

you can also read the summary.

1:15.7

And unlock the whole vault of all 669 such summaries, those are the Gold Nuggets, over at

1:20.6

also at your job.com.

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