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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

982: How to Build Trust, Repair Relationships, and Make Collaborations Great with Dr. Deb Mashek

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Deb Mashek reveals the critical factors that make workplace collaborations less painful and more productive. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The key ingredients of great collaboration 

2) Why hiring good collaborators isn’t enough 

3) The key questions to kickstart great collaborations 


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— ABOUT DEB — 

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. She is the author of the book Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone). 

Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Inc., Forbes, Fortune, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed, Reason, Business Week, University Business Insider, and The Hill. She writes regularly for Reworked and Psychology Today.

Deb is the founder of Myco Consulting LLC, where she helps networked organizations (e.g., consortia, collaboratives, associations, federations, etc.) avoid the predictable pitfalls of complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives so that they can drive impact and achieve big visions. A member of the Association for Collaborative Leadership, Deb has been an invited speaker on collaboration and viewpoint diversity at leading organizations including the United Nations, Siemens, and the American Psychological Association.

• Book: Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone) 

• Book Website: Collaborhate.com 

• Website: DebMashek.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Article: "36 Questions to Fall In Love" 

• Book: The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey 

• Research: "The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings" by Arthur Aaron, Edward Melinat, Elaine Aaron, Robert Vallone, Renee Bator 


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Be collabrabr great. This stuff is so worth it for you and your happiness but also helping other people unlock their capacity and

0:14.8

helping your team do amazing things and helping your organization whether you're at a

0:18.7

nonprofit or a for-profit or wherever you're working we're able to do together better.

0:24.4

Or when we're able to do together better, we're really able to have a great impact and

0:28.7

change the world.

0:30.9

It's not enough to hire good collaborators.

0:33.0

That's the first thing you should do,

0:34.6

but you also need collaborative cultures,

0:36.9

you need collaborative processes,

0:38.6

and there are ways of getting all of those wrong. That's Dr. Deb Masik.

0:45.0

She's known as the Guru of all things collaboration

0:49.0

and has served clients including the United Nations

0:52.0

and the American Psychological Association.

0:54.2

She helps leaders navigate the relationship pitfalls, the tank timelines, bottom lines, and well-being.

1:00.2

Her new book Collaborate, or Collaborate,

1:03.0

how to build incredible collaborative relationships at work

1:05.6

even if you'd rather work alone, shares how to repair relationships,

1:08.7

build trust, and make collaborations easier and better for everyone.

1:12.8

So you'll learn one, the key ingredients of great collaboration,

1:15.9

two, why hiring good collaborators isn't enough, and three,

1:20.0

the key questions to kickstart, great collaborations.

1:23.2

I'm Peepakitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's Deb.

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