800: How to Get Better at Asking for Help with Dr. Heidi Grant
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Heidi Grant reveals the secrets to asking for and getting the help you need.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why asking for help is beneficial for everyone involved
2) The do’s and don'ts of asking for help
3) The telltale sign that you need to ask for help
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— ABOUT HEIDI —
Dr. Heidi Grant is a leadership, influence and motivation expert, who is ranked among the top management thinkers globally. Her books include 9 Things Successful People Do Differently, and Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and CBS Mornings, and her TED talk has been viewed more than 3 million times.
• Book: Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You
• Website: HeidiGrantPhD.com
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• Past episode: 773: How to Amplify Your Message Through Powerful Framing and Storytelling with Rene Rodriguez
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for Dut Dut Dut Dut! |
| 0:22.7 | Episode 800, hooray, with Dr. Heidi Grant. |
| 0:27.1 | In possible, I'd like to put special guests on 100th episode increments. |
| 0:33.8 | And Dr. Heidi Grant is special to me because she was on my list of podcasts. |
| 0:38.2 | I wanted to book before I even had a podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | And so it took a little bit of time, but 800 episodes later here we are, and I am stoked. |
| 0:47.2 | Heidi's got some pro tips on how to ask for and get the help you need if that's something |
| 0:52.8 | you fear or you struggle with. |
| 0:54.8 | Heidi has got the goods and a deep research base to provide those goods. |
| 1:01.2 | So you'll learn one, why asking for help is beneficial for everyone involved. |
| 1:05.0 | Two, the do's and don'ts of asking for help. |
| 1:07.6 | And three, the telltale sign that you need to ask for help. |
| 1:11.3 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to some of the |
| 1:15.2 | resources that we mentioned here, you can pay us a visit at awesomeatyourjob.com slash |
| 1:19.8 | 8800. |
| 1:23.1 | So you can get those resources right there, awesomeatyourjob.com slash app 8800. |
| 1:28.3 | And if you're at awesomeatyourjob.com, check out some goodies like the gold nugget email |
| 1:32.6 | summary, which gives you a quick write up of the actionable wisdom that Heidi shared, |
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