Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

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

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

With your host, Pete Makaitas.

Hello and welcome to episode 898 with Si Wakeman.

Boy, if there is some drama in your workplace, Si cuts to the heart of the matter,

identifying the very thought patterns we have that give rise to this

and enhance communication approaches that can address it effectively.

So you'll learn one, how your ego ruins two and a half hours of every day.

Two, three questions to break free from that ego.

And three, why does it stop saying should?

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

please drop on by awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep898.

And while you're at awesomeatyourjob.com, I recommend you check out some of our goodies,

such as the Goldnugget email list, which provides a summary write-up of the actionable wisdom size shared.

In a quick email, you can read in about two or three minutes,

as well as unlocking the whole vault, the archive of 898 of these summary goldnugget write-ups,

and those are called the Goldnuggets over at awesomeatyourjob.com.

Now here's a little bit about Si, Si Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker,

and consultant. In 2001, she founded a reality-based leadership.

She is the author of four books, a reality-based leadership, ditched the drama,

restore sanity to the workplace, and turn excuses into results.

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