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

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

to flourish at work.

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

Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 836 with Ann Dauphin.

Ann has some excellent wisdom when it comes to keeping projects moving,

using influence, leading without authority to ultimately getting the project

to the promised land over the finished line done, done, done.

So you'll learn one, the essential question to get any project moving.

Two, an overlook skill that boosts project success rates,

and three, two things you need for people to align with your goals.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here,

please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash EP836.

And while they're check out some of our goodies like the transcripts, the golden nugget emails,

so much goodness over at awesometyourjob.com.

And here's a bit of goodness about Ann and Dauphin is the VP of product and program management at Edmunds.com.

She successfully led technical projects for two decades at startups and major corporations.

In her book Glue, How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged High Performing Teams,

and Vividly Brings Compassionate, Positive, and Nimble Leadership to Life.

Demonstrating with actionable guidance, the power of caring and connection to inspire outstanding results,

and live their husband and two children in Los Angeles, California.

Big thanks to Ann for sharing our wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

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