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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

863: Mastering Empathy to Enrich Relationships and Reduce Stress with Anita Nowak

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Anita Nowak shows how you can nurture powerful, genuine connections through purposeful empathy. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) What NOT to do when you’re trying to connect 

2) The trick to improving your active listening 

3) How to get into the empathic mood 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep863 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT ANITA — 

Anita Nowak, PhD, is an empathy expert, speaker, podcaster, award-winning educator, certified coach, and founder of Purposeful Empathy by Design, a boutique global advisory firm that helps purpose-driven organizations create cultures of empathy and social impact. Passionate about mentoring the next generation of changemakers, she teaches leadership, ethics in management, and social entrepreneurship and innovation at McGill University. Anita lives in Montreal with her husband and daughter. 

• Book: Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change 

• LinkedIn: Anita Nowak 

• YouTube: @anitanowak2977 

• Website: AnitaNowak.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson 

• Book: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brene Brown 

• Book: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown 

• Past episode: 311: Communication Secrets from FBI Kidnapping Negotiator Chris Voss 

• Tool: The Personal Values Assessment 


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

• AutomateYourBusywork.com. Check out the book that helps you Automate Your Busywork

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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 Makaitas.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to episode 863 with Anita Novak. Anita shows how empathy makes a world of impact in terms of really enriching relationships

0:29.0

and even reducing your own stress and some common misconceptions that folks have and how to do it better.

0:35.0

So you'll learn one, what not to do when you're trying to connect.

0:39.0

Two, the trick to improving your active listening. And three, how to get into that empathic mood.

0:44.0

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

0:49.0

www.awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep 863.

0:53.0

If you're over at awesomeatyourjob.com, please visit some of our cool resources from the full text-searchable transcripts of all eight hundred sixty-three episodes to the Goldnugget summaries of the actual wisdom sent to your email box and a lot of other goodies at awesomeatyourjob.com.

1:06.0

Now here's a bit about Anita. Anita Novak THD is an empathy expert speaker, podcaster, award-winning educator, certified coach and founder of purposeful empathy by design.

1:16.0

A boutique global advisory firm that helps purpose-driven organizations create cultures of empathy and social impact.

1:22.0

Passionate about mentoring the next generation of change makers, she teaches leadership, ethics and management and social entrepreneurship and innovation at McGill University.

1:29.0

Anita lives in Montreal with her husband and daughter.

1:32.0

So huge thanks to Anita for sharing with us and huge thanks to our sponsor Automate Your Busy Work.

1:37.0

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1:44.0

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1:49.0

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1:57.0

The book covers why the future of business is no code and how you can use an automation first mindset to unlock your productivity potential,

2:04.0

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2:12.0

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