976: How (and When) to Freely Speak Your Mind with Elaine Lin Hering

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Elaine Lin Hering discusses why to stop censoring yourself at work—and how to strategically do that.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The massive costs of keeping quiet

2) The fundamental question that helps you speak up wisely

3) The subtle ways we silence others—and how to stop

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— ABOUT ELAINE —

Elaine Lin Hering works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on six continents and facilitated executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She is the former Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and lecturer at Harvard Law School. She is the author of the USA Today Bestselling book Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully.

• Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

• Website: ElaineLinHering.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups”

• Book: Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without A Bullhorn by Omkari Williams

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0:00.0	In what ways are you silencing yourself to preserve the comfort of other people?
0:12.3	I would start by asking two questions. What do I think?
0:15.3	Not what does my manager think, not what does my brother think, not what does my mother think, but what do I think? And what that does
0:22.0	over time is remind you that you actually have unique thoughts of your own.
0:26.0	Second question is what do I need?
0:28.0	Because so often silencing is also suppression of our needs, our desires, our wants.
0:33.0	And so what do I think, what do I need
0:35.0	reminds you that you actually are an autonomous
0:38.0	individual with needs goals, hopes, concerns of your own.
0:45.0	That's Elaine Lynn Herring. She works with the organizations and individuals all over the world to create environments that support instead of silence people.
0:51.0	She's also the best-selling author of Unlearning Silence,
0:54.4	how to speak your mind, unleash talent,
0:56.5	and live more fully.
0:58.2	So you'll learn, one, the massive cost of keeping quiet.
1:01.2	Two, the fundamental question that helps you speak up wisely.
1:05.2	And three, the subtle ways we silence others and how to stop. I'm Pete McChitis.
1:10.0	This is how to be awesome at your job. And now, here's Elaine.
1:16.3	Elaine, welcome.
1:17.6	Thanks so much for having me.
1:19.2	Well, I'm glad that you're breaking the silence
1:21.6	here on how to be awesome at your job I'm excited to
1:23.9	dig into this wisdom we have all the secrets ready to go all of them oh no let me
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