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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to learn about the hopes and dreams of the people who work with you or who otherwise spend a lot of time with you.

This way, you can help them build or who otherwise spend a lot of time with you.

This way, you can help them build the skills needed to achieve those dreams.

This tip, like one from last week, comes from Kim Scott's book Radical Candor. This book teaches readers how to be a great

boss. She asserts that a great boss is a person who is radically candid, caring for, and challenging his or her team. Part of caring and challenging

means helping people grow. And while Scott's tips are mostly aimed at managers, you can actually have similar conversations with all sorts of people in your life,

your colleagues, your friends, your adult children.

You can learn how to be of service while learning a lot about these people.

Scott recommends that managers have a series of career conversations with each of their direct reports.

The first career conversation focuses on the person's life story,

the second on her dreams, and the third on her 18-month plan. The life story conversation is relatively straightforward.

This is one you're hopefully having anyway as you get to know a person through

informal chats. Where does the person come from? What forces shaped his or her life?

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