960: Surfacing Hidden Wisdom for Huge Breakthroughs: A Masterclass in Asking with Jeff Wetzler
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Wetzler shows you how to uncover startling wisdom from the people around you through better asking.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The mysteries of the unspoken–and how to tackle them
2) The five-step ask approach
3) The trick to posing quality questions
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— ABOUT JEFF —
Jeff Wetzler is co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization, and an expert in learning and human potential with more than 25 years’ experience. Wetzler combines unique leadership experiences in business and education, as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, and as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America. Jeff earned a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in psychology from Brown University. Based in New York, he is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow.
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| 0:00.0 | This problem of the unspoken is pervasive, it's painful, but it is not inevitable. |
| 0:11.6 | We can truly do something about it. |
| 0:14.0 | We are surrounded by people who have all kinds of ideas, thoughts, feelings, |
| 0:18.6 | perspectives, feedback for us in their heads and far too often we don't get access to it because they don't tell us. |
| 0:27.7 | When you give somebody the chance to tell you something that they're thinking and feeling |
| 0:30.7 | and not saying, that's a gift to them too. |
| 0:33.6 | Most of us think that we are far better listeners |
| 0:36.9 | than we actually are. |
| 0:37.9 | And there's a difference between trying to listen |
| 0:39.5 | and actually hearing what someone is saying, |
| 0:41.2 | what they're not saying. That's Jeff Wetsler. |
| 0:45.0 | He's had over 25 years of experience as an expert in learning and human potential. |
| 0:52.0 | He's served as a management consultant |
| 0:53.5 | to the world's top corporations, |
| 0:55.2 | a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, |
| 0:57.0 | and as chief learning officer, Teach for America. |
| 0:59.9 | Today, he's discussing insights from his latest book, Ask, |
| 1:03.0 | tap into the hidden wisdom of people around you |
| 1:05.3 | for unexpected breakthroughs in leadership in life. |
| 1:08.3 | So you'll learn one, the mysteries of the unspoken |
| 1:11.0 | and how to tackle them. |
| 1:12.2 | Two, the five-step ask approach and three the trick to |
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