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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

859: How to Be a Leader–Instead of a Boss with Todd Dewett

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

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Todd Dewett shares how to harness you and your team’s true power. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why and how to collaborate–not dictate. 

2) Why you should go for candor over. 

3) The low-cost way to optimize your team. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep859 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT TODD — 

Dr. Todd Dewett is a globally recognized leadership educator, author, and speaker. After working with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he completed his PhD at Texas A&M University in Organizational Behavior as well as a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship. 

He was an award-winning professor at Wright State University for ten years, teaching leadership-related courses to MBA students and publishing research. His activities grew to encompass speaking, training, consulting, and eventually online educational courses. 

To date, Todd has delivered over 1,000 speeches around the world (including several TEDx talks) and created a library of courses enjoyed by millions of professionals. His clients include Microsoft, IBM, GE, Pepsi, ExxonMobil, Boeing, MD Anderson, State Farm, and hundreds more. 

• Book: Dancing with Monsters: A Tale About Leadership, Success, and Overcoming Fears 

• LinkedIn: Todd Dewett 

• Website: DrDewett.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates 

• Book: Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard 


— 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 859 with Todd Duitt. Todd is back.

0:24.0

He was one of our first guests and he's got a fun leadership fable.

0:28.0

With a lot of real smart distinctions, so you'll learn one, why and how to collaborate, not dictate.

0:34.0

Two, why you should go for candor over kindness.

0:37.0

And three, the low cost way to optimize your team.

0:40.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash ep859.

0:48.0

Now here's a bit about Todd. Dr. Todd Duitt is a globally recognized leadership educator, author and speaker.

0:54.0

After working with Anderson Consulting in Ernst & Young, he completed his PhD at Texas A and Menendum University, an organizational behavior, as well as a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship.

1:04.0

He was an award-winning professor at Wright State University for 10 years, teaching leadership related courses to MBA students and publishing research.

1:11.0

His activities grew to encompass speaking, training, consulting, and eventually online educational courses.

1:16.0

To date, Todd has delivered over 1,000 speeches around the world, including several TEDx talks, and created a library of courses enjoyed by millions of professionals.

1:23.0

His clients include Microsoft, IBM, GE, Pepsi, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Indie Anderson, State Farm, and hundreds more.

1:30.0

Big thanks to Todd for sharing his wisdom with us, and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:33.0

Check them out.

1:34.0

One sponsor to check out is Stanford Continuing Studies.

1:37.0

There, you can immerse yourself in a diverse selection of courses available both online and in person.

1:43.0

This winter, perhaps, you'd like to explore the captivating field of artificial intelligence.

1:48.0

Expand your horizons about what lies ahead, or dive into essential business skills in marketing, communication, or decision analysis, which is my personal favorite, as well as project management, and a whole lot more.

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