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This is Sarah.

And I'm Mark.

Today's podcast, Career Insurance for Your Directs, Part 2 of 2.

This cast answers these questions.

What can I do to help my directs have great careers?

What common career mistakes can I steer my team away from?

How can I teach my directs how to manage their careers?

If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

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forward slash training. That then takes us to relationships is insurance number two.

And folks, while most professionals, I think, understand that results are

really important in their career, the area that many miss is the second most important thing

in everyone's career. That is their relationships. Because folks, you work with people. You work in an organization with a bunch

of colleagues, all of whom are human beings, and it's not enough to get great results. You also

have to get along with your colleagues and coworkers. And listen, there are exceptions. I mean,

Wall Street's toxic and burnout culture is probably the most obvious, I would guess. And those high performers exist in organizations, those ones who seem to get away with treating other people poorly. But to be clear, they're actually pretty rare, at least in well-managed companies.

The reason they don't seem as rare as they truly are is that when they existed in an organization, they stand out.

And because they stand out, we remember them.

It's kind of like how folks say opposites attract when what is really true is

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