988: How to Elevate Your Status and Command Respect at Work with Alison Fragale
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Alison Fragale reveals the keys to improving others’ perceptions of you.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The critical missing piece for your advancement
2) Why your response to “How are you?” matters more than you think
3) The quickest way to get others to promote you
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— ABOUT ALISON —
Alison Fragale is the author of LIKEABLE BADASS: How Women Get the Success They Deserve and the Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Scholar of Organizational Behavior at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. As a research psychologist, award-winning professor, international keynote speaker, and author, she is on a mission to help others — especially women — use behavioral science to work and live better.
Her scholarship has been published in the most prestigious academic journals in her field and featured in prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Inc. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children, who are all named after professional athletes.
• Book: Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve
• Newsletter: The Upper Hand
• Website: AlisonFragale.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings” by Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand
• Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
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| 0:00.0 | We all want people to see us as very capable and very caring because when we do that |
| 0:12.0 | that's how we gain status that we respect |
| 0:15.2 | people who are good at getting stuff done and who care about other people. |
| 0:20.1 | Look for opportunities to solve other people's problems |
| 0:23.6 | using your unique skills and talents. |
| 0:25.6 | Things you are naturally good at you really enjoy |
| 0:27.6 | and doesn't take you very long to solve their problems. |
| 0:29.6 | If you do that in life, and that's all you do, |
| 0:32.0 | you will build your status, because as soon as you solve their problem you're |
| 0:35.0 | capable and you've spent your effort to solve something that matters to them so |
| 0:38.9 | you're caring. That's Allison Frigail. She's a research psychologist and award-winning professor of |
| 0:49.3 | organizational behavior at the University of North Carolina. She's also the author of |
| 0:53.6 | likable badass. So today she's going to tell us how and why to become one. |
| 0:58.0 | You'll learn one, the critical missing piece for your advancement. Two, why the response to how are you matters more than |
| 1:04.7 | you think and three the quickest way to get others to promote you. I'm Pete |
| 1:08.6 | Pekitis, this is how to be awesome at your job and now here's Allison. |
| 1:15.0 | Allison, welcome! |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you, I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm excited to be chatting with you because you're going to teach us how to become likable badasses. |
| 1:24.8 | That sounds like something I think that we want. |
| 1:27.7 | What's the scoop here? |
| 1:28.9 | I think we should. |
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