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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

858: Managing Small Stresses Before They Create Big Problems with Rob Cross

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Rob Cross explains the dangers of microstress and provides practical solutions to build your resilience. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why microstress is a much larger problem than we think. 

2) Three types of microstress to watch out for. 

3) Three solutions for when someone’s causing microstress. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep858 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT ROB — 

Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the cofounder and director of the Connected Commons, a consortium of more than 150 leading organizations. He has studied the underlying networks of relationships within effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than twenty years. Working with over 300 organizations and reaching thousands of leaders from the front line to the C-suite, he has identified specific ways to cultivate vibrant, effective networks at all levels of an organization and any career stage. He is the author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being and coauthor of THE MICROSTRESS EFFECT: How Little Things Pile Up and Become Big Problems—and What to do about it with Karen Dillon. 

• Book: The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It 

• Book: Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being 

• Website: RobCross.org 

• Website: Connected Commons 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy 


— 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.

0:04.0

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete LeCaites.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to episode 858 with Rob Cross.

0:23.0

Rob introduces the concept of micro-stress, what it is, how it's tricky, how to deal with it,

0:29.0

and the tremendous benefits that come when you address these little stresses

0:33.0

and feel great coming out the other side.

0:35.0

So you'll learn one, why micro-stress is a much larger problem than you think.

0:39.0

Two, three types of micro-stress to watch out for.

0:42.0

And three, three solutions for when someone's causing some micro-stress.

0:46.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to add-ons that we've referenced,

0:49.0

please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash ep858.

0:55.0

And we're at awesometyourjob.com.

0:57.0

Check out some of our goodies like the Goldnugget e-mail summary,

1:00.0

which gives you a rundown of the actual wisdom Rob shared as well as unlocking the vault

1:06.0

of all eight header 58 of these summaries over at awesometyourjob.com.

1:09.0

That's the Goldnuggets.

1:10.0

Now here's Rob's story.

1:11.0

Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College

1:15.0

and the co-founder and director of the Connected Commons,

1:18.0

a consortium of more than 150 leading organizations.

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