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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

817: How to Navigate Complexity and Win with Jennifer Garvey Berger

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

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Garvey Berger shares how we can all tap into our natural capabilities to overcome the challenges of complexity. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How uncertainty affects your nervous system 

2) The secret to boosting your nervous system 

3) How laughter helps you be more awesome 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep817 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT JENNIFER — 

Jennifer Garvey Berger is Chief Cultivating Officer and Founder of Cultivating Leadership, a consultancy that serves executives and executive teams in the private, non-profit, and government sectors. Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia, and Oxfam International. She is the author of Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World. 

• Book: Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead (The Stanford Briefs) 

• Book: Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity 

• Website: CultivatingLeadership.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition by Robert Sapolsky 


— 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.

0:04.1

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 McIdoz.

0:19.2

Hello and welcome to episode 817 with Jennifer Garvey Berger.

0:24.1

Jennifer has some excellent perspective when it comes to complexity, uncertainty, navigating

0:29.3

that, doing it well and feeling okay while you're at it.

0:32.4

So you'll learn one, how uncertainty affects your nervous system.

0:35.2

Two, the secret to boosting that nervous system.

0:37.6

And three, how laughter helps you be more awesome.

0:40.8

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

0:43.2

we've mentioned, please pace it over, awesome at your job.com slash EP817.

0:48.0

And if you're hanging out, awesome at your job.com, please take a nice little spin around.

0:52.9

We got a lot of goodies for you above and beyond the audio here, over at awesome at your

0:56.3

job.com.

0:57.3

Now here's Jennifer's story.

0:58.3

Jennifer Garvey Berger is the chief cultivating officer and founder of Cultivating Leadership,

1:02.6

a consultancy that serves executives and executive teams in the private nonprofit and government

1:07.2

sectors.

1:08.2

Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia, and Oxfam International.

1:12.4

She's the author of unlocking leadership mind traps, changing on the job, developing leaders

1:16.6

for a complex world.

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