795: How to Stop Being Crazy Busy and Take Back Your Time with Zena Everett
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Zena Everett reveals the time-wasters to drop in order to make time for what matters.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The top things slowing us down at work
2) The questions to ask for effective prioritization
3) How to say no nicely
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— ABOUT ZENA —
Leadership Coach and Speaker Zena Everett is the author of Mind Flip, Take the Fear out of Your Career and the award winning Crazy Busy Cure.
Originally a recruitment entrepreneur, Zena sold her business in 2007 then studied an MSc in Career Management and Coaching. She then took further postgraduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership with neuroscience (MIT Sloan Business School). She has coached on the Executive MBA Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and is a member of the Associate Faculty at Henley Business School.
• Book: The Crazy Busy Cure: A productivity book for people who don’t have time to read productivity books
• Website: ZenaEverett.com
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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 for joining us here for episode 795 with Zena Everett. |
| 0:24.0 | If you feel crazy busy too often, Zena's got some pro tips for you. |
| 0:28.0 | So you'll learn one, the top things slowing us down at work. |
| 0:31.0 | Two, the questions to ask for effective prioritization. |
| 0:34.0 | And three, how to say no nicely. |
| 0:37.0 | So if you want to see the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've mentioned, |
| 0:40.0 | please visit us at awesomenerjob.com slash ep795. |
| 0:45.0 | Here's a bit about Zena. |
| 0:47.0 | Zena Everett is a leadership coach and speaker who is the author of Mind Flip. |
| 0:51.0 | Take the fear out of your career and the award-winning crazy busy cure. |
| 0:55.0 | She's originally a recruitment entrepreneur and she sold her business in 2007. |
| 1:00.0 | Then got her MSC in career management coaching. |
| 1:02.0 | She then took further postgraduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership |
| 1:07.0 | with neuroscience from MIT Sloan. |
| 1:09.0 | She has coached on the executive MBA program at Oxford University's Syed Business School |
| 1:14.0 | and is a member of the associate faculty at Henley Business School. |
| 1:18.0 | Zena is a regular speaker on crazy busyness and leadership for the London Business Forum. |
| 1:22.0 | The world's best speakers and London's most iconic venues. |
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