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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

842: How to Thrive in High-Stakes Situations with Carol Kauffman

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Decisions, Collaboration, Wins, Mockaitis, Mental Health, Education, Speaking, Success, Interview, Fun, Career, Business, Development, Health & Fitness, Winning, Careers, Training, Thinking, Sharpening, Skills, Writing, Selfhelp, Self-improvement, Meaning, Money

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Carol Kauffman reveals her secrets for finding your calm in the biggest moments. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The super question to ask yourself dozens of times a day. 

2) How to avoid being hijacked by stress. 

3) How to find the best approach in any situation. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep842 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CAROL — 

Carol Kauffman is known internationally as a leader in the field of coaching. Carol works extensively with global CEOs and their teams, also serving as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, visiting professor at Henley Business School (University of Reading, UK), and a senior leadership adviser at Egon Zehnder. Marshall Goldsmith named her the #1 leadership coach, and Thinkers50 ranked her among the world's top eight coaches. 

• Book: Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High 

• Website: CarolKauffman.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Circe by Madeline Miller 

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 

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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

0:08.5

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 welcome to episode 842 with Carol Kaufman.

0:23.4

Carol has got some excellent perspective, questions, insights on how you can thrive and

0:28.8

stressful or high-stakes situations.

0:31.6

See, older and one, the super question to ask yourself dozens of times a day, two, how

0:36.9

to avoid being hijacked by stress, and three, how to find the best approach in any situation.

0:42.3

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

0:45.0

we've mentioned here, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep842.

0:51.0

And while there, check out some of our goodies like every episode tied by the topic and

0:54.8

competency covered, the full tech, searchable transcripts, and a whole lot more over at awesomeatyourjob.com.

1:00.5

Now here's a little bit about Carol.

1:01.8

Carol Kaufman is internationally known as a leader in the field of coaching.

1:05.7

Carol works extensively with global CEOs and their teams, also serving as an assistant

1:10.0

professor at Harvard Medical School, visiting professor at Henley Business School at the

1:14.6

University of Redding, UK, and a senior leadership advisor at Egon Zender.

1:19.4

Marshall Goldsmith named her the number one leadership coach and thinkers 50 ranked her

1:24.1

among the world's top eight coaches.

1:26.8

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

1:30.0

Check them out.

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