868: Fostering the Sense of Community at Work with Christine Porath
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Christine Porath discusses why community is critical to well-being and shares powerful examples of how to build it in the workplace.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The astounding benefits of a sense of community.
2) The one thing to avoid with community-building activities.
3) How vulnerability leads to richer communities.
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— ABOUT CHRISTINE —
Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and has written articles for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, and Washington Post. She frequently delivers talks and has taught in various Executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown, and USC. Prior to her position at Georgetown, she was a faculty member at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
Christine’s work has been featured worldwide in over 1500 television, radio and print outlets. It has appeared on 20/20, Today, FoxNews, CNN, BBC, NBC, msnbc, CBS, ABC, and NPR. It has also been included in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, NY Times, The Washington Post, and L.A. Times.
• Book: Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving
• LinkedIn: Christine Porath
• Twitter: @PorathC
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• Book: The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage by Kelly McGonigal
• Book: TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments by Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard
• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Past episode: 150: Expressing Radical Candor with Kim Scott
• Past episode: 310: Managing Your Energy to Perform at Your Best with Tony Schwartz
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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 with your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for Episode 868 with Christine Boroth. |
| 0:23.0 | Christine has some really cool examples and insights on community, |
| 0:28.0 | how to build it, what are the benefits of it, experiencing it at work, |
| 0:32.0 | and how it can just change the whole experience and be so grand. |
| 0:36.0 | So you'll learn one, the astounding benefits of a sense of community. |
| 0:39.0 | Two, the one thing to avoid with community building activities. |
| 0:43.0 | And three, how vulnerability leads to richer communities. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 0:49.0 | please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep868. |
| 0:55.0 | And maybe check out some of our resources like the Golden Nugget e-mail summaries, |
| 0:58.0 | the 10 days of waiting at work, course, full text, virtual transcripts, |
| 1:02.0 | and a lot of other goodies at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:04.0 | Now here's a bit about Christine. |
| 1:06.0 | Christine is a senior professor at Georgetown Universities at McDonald's School of Business. |
| 1:10.0 | She's the author of Mastering Civility, a manifesto for the workplace, |
| 1:14.0 | and co-author of the cost of bad behavior. |
| 1:16.0 | Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, |
| 1:19.0 | and has written articles for the New York Times Wall Street Journal and many others. |
| 1:23.0 | She frequently delivers talks that has taught in various executive programs at Harvard Georgetown and USC. |
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