996: Tackling Work Stressors and Transitions with Dr. Tessa West

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tessa West shares her method for making the necessary changes that lead to greater job satisfaction.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How your body tells you when it’s time to change jobs

2) How to not be overwhelmed by the stresses at work

3) The hidden curriculum that helps you succeed at work

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— ABOUT TESSA —

Tessa West is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and a leading expert in the science of interpersonal communication. Her work focuses on questions such as, why is it so hard to give honest, critical feedback? and how do class, race, and cultural differences make communication in the workplace so difficult, and what can we do to improve it?

Tessa's work has been covered by Scientific American, the New York Times, ABC World News, TIME, Harper’s Bazaar, the Financial Times, Forbes, CNBC, CNN, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Bloomberg, Strategy and Business, and the US Supreme Court. She has appeared on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, CNN, and Good Morning America, and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the book Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What To Do About Them and the upcoming Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works For You.

• Book: Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You

• Book: Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to do About Them

• Website: TessaWestAuthor.com

• Research website: TessaWestLab.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: "Intimate Partner Violence: A Literature Review" by Erick Yonfa, Malinda Fasol, Camila Cueva, Anna Zavgorodniava

• Past episode: 745: How to Handle Bad Bosses and Toxic Coworkers with Tessa West

• Study: Brittle Smiles: Positive Biases Toward Stigmatized and Outgroup Targets

• Tool: Bose noise-cancelling headphones

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I don't care how great the job is on paper, unanticipated stressors and your inability to kind of put
0:12.1	stop gaps in place and prevent the bleed from that stressful event, you're in trouble.
0:17.0	Most of the time when we are interrupted at work, we do it to ourselves.
0:21.0	We self-destruct, we check our phones, we shop on Zoom calls, and we often do this when
0:25.7	we are cognitively depleted, meaning like we're out of mental resources to not do it, and when you're
0:31.6	stressed, you eat away those resources.
0:33.7	That's another outcome of feeling kind of chronic low-level stress.
0:37.4	You have a lot more control over the impact of stress
0:41.1	and how frequently you encounter these things then you realize.
0:44.9	Do not think that you can learn about a job by sitting on your couch and reading websites and
0:50.0	glass door stuff or even getting those LinkedIn certifications or whatever, you really can only learn about it through talking to people. That's Dr. Tessa West.
1:05.0	She's a professor of psychology at New York University and a leading expert in the science of interpersonal communication.
1:11.0	Her new book, Job Therapy, Finding Work that Works for You,
1:15.1	is for anyone looking to align their career with their goals and skills.
1:18.8	So you'll learn one, how your body tells you when it's time to change jobs.
1:23.0	Two, how to not be overwhelmed by the stresses at work,
1:26.0	and three, the hidden curriculum that helps you succeed.
1:29.0	And if you want to review some of these takeaways
1:31.0	in a fast written format, I recommend you sign up with the
1:34.1	gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com our free email newsletter with lots of goodies to
1:39.4	review or get your insights all the faster those are the gold nuggets at all cement your job.
1:44.0	And I'm Pete McKitis.
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