678: How to Win Trust and Connect Masterfully with Riaz Meghji
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Riaz Meghji reveals the key behaviors that lead to more meaningful connections.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The one trick to becoming a better listener
2) Where to draw the line between vulnerability and oversharing
3) How to be assertively empathetic
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— ABOUT RIAZ —
Riaz Meghji is a Human Connection Expert. He has 17 years of broadcast television experience, and, during his time as host on Citytv’s Breakfast Television, MTV Canada, TEDxVancouver, CTV News, and the Toronto International Film Festival, has interviewed thousands of experts about human connection and collaboration, undertaking critical training that helped shape the tangible takeaways he shares in his new book, Every Conversation Counts.
• Riaz’s book: Every Conversation Counts: The 5 Habits of Human Connection that Build Extraordinary Relationships
• Riaz’s website: RiazMeghji.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Exercise: Wim Hof method
• Researcher: Gordon Livingston
• Book: The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• Book: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Past episode: 667: How to Cultivate Your Influence and Build Powerful Connections with Jon Levy
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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 McIdoz. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 678 with Rias Meggi. |
| 0:23.0 | If you have ever wanted to have less small talk and more big talk to win trust |
| 0:29.0 | to connect all the better with folks, we'll be have a master conversationalist in Rias |
| 0:34.0 | who will help you do just that. |
| 0:36.0 | So you'll learn one, the one trick to becoming a better listener. |
| 0:39.0 | Two, where to draw the line between vulnerability and oversharing. |
| 0:42.0 | And three, how to be assertively empathetic. |
| 0:44.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:47.0 | wee reference, please visit us at awesome at your job.com slash EP 678. |
| 0:53.0 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of the cool stuff |
| 0:56.0 | like our gold nugget email summaries, which give you a quick write-up of Rias' wisdom |
| 1:02.0 | in an email you can read it about two or three minutes, as well as unlocking the vaults |
| 1:07.0 | of all 678 of these summary write-ups. |
| 1:09.0 | That's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:12.0 | Now here's Rias' story. Rias Meggi is a human connection expert. |
| 1:16.0 | He has 17 years of broadcast television experience. |
| 1:19.0 | And during his time as host on City TV's Breakfast Television, MTV Canada, |
| 1:24.0 | TEDx Vancouver, CTV News, and the Toronto International Film Festival, |
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