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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

808: How to Become a Great Listener with Oscar Trimboli

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Oscar Trimboli explores the science behind listening–and how you can become great at it. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The difference between a good listener and a great one 

2) How to get into the great listening mindset 

3) The one question that will cut your meetings in half 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep808 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT OSCAR — 

Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace.

He is the author of How to Listen - Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication - the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening - Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. We adapted our previous episode with Oscar into the LinkedIn Learning course called  How to Resolve Conflict and Boost Productivity through Deep Listening.

Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens.

Oscar loves afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren.

• Book: How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication 

• Quiz: ListeningQuiz.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Neil Ferguson 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.2

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.2

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

0:19.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 808 with Oscar Trumboli, Oscars Back with

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more great listening insights.

0:26.0

We all learn one, the difference between a good listener and a great one, two, how to

0:29.9

get into the great listening mindset and three, the one question that can cut your meetings

0:35.3

in half.

0:36.3

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to some of the

0:39.2

items that we mentioned here, please pace a visit at awesometyourjob.com slash EP 808.

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And if you're at awesometyourjob.com, check out some of our goodies like the full text

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transcripts, which by the way, you can access by clicking that little expansion rectangle.

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So there's this little rectangle that expands that says transcript.

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If you scroll down a little bit, that's come up a couple times recently.

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So if I the transcripts and more over at awesometyourjob.com, now here's a little bit about Oscar.

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Oscar Trumboli is an author, hosted the Apple Award-winning podcast deep listening and

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a sought after keynote speaker.

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Along with the deep listening and master community, he's got a quest to create 100 million

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deep listeners in the workplace.

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