Pete Mockaitis | How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Learn tactics and techniques that greatly improve how you communicate. Do you want to be an engaging speaker? In this audio-only course from How to Be Awesome at Your Job, international speaker Julian Treasure shares tactics and techniques that improve how you communicate. Julian stresses the importance of learning how to listen first. Understanding how your audience listens will improve your speaking. Julian shows you words to avoid and roadblocks...

Burnout is more than just exhaustion. Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez discusses what burnout is, how you can prevent it from happening, and what you can do if you're experiencing it. Burnout is often assumed to be the consequence of overwork. But this is only partially true—exhaustion is merely one facet of burnout. In this audio-only course, learn about the factors that cause these overwhelming feelings of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency; how you...

Learn how to deal with difficult people more effectively by shifting the language you use. In this audio-only course, communication expert Sam Horn explains how to adjust your language to deal with difficult people more effectively. Sam identifies three choices you can always make in a conflict and shows you how quickly agreeing, apologizing, and taking action lets you get straight to what’s important. Sam discusses how finding solutions will get...

Daniel Harkavy walks through his proven framework for elevating your leadership. Your effectiveness as a leader is determined by only two things: your decision-making and your influence. As executive coach Daniel Harkavy explains in this audio-only course, a leader’s job is to mobilize a group of people. Leaders take a team from a place today to a better place tomorrow. And to do that, leaders need to make fantastic decisions to create a strategy....

Revitalize your approach to feedback. Learn how to make the performance review more effective, in this course adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job. The current feedback model is broken. Most employees don’t feel that their annual review is fair or accurate. Craig Dowden exposes gaps in common performance review practices and presents an empowering alternative approach everybody can use–no matter where you work—in this course...

Dr. Ellen Reed shares how to build mental toughness by training your brain to be more solution-focused. In this audio-only course from How to Be Awesome at Your Job, Dr. Ellen Reed reveals how to train your brain to be more solution-focused. As Ellen explains, you can teach your brain to focus on solutions, rather than problems, to build your mental toughness. She walks you through creating a success log. Making a habit out of the success log will...

Lea Waters provides the tools you need to tap into your strengths, leading to increased happiness. In this audio-only course from How to Be Awesome at Your Job, psychologist Lea Waters talks about the tools you need to tap into your strengths. Lea points out that most of us mistake our learned behaviors for strengths. Learned behaviors are things that you excel at simply because you’ve learned to be good at them. Strengths, however, provide you...

Discover an evening routine that promotes deep, restful sleep, which in turn promotes a successful day ahead. Success 101 podcaster Jarrod Warren contends that 80% of a great day starts in the evening. In this course, Jarrod explains the eight steps in his evening routine that you can adapt to your needs, to tackle a new day’s challenges well-prepared with a night of deep, restful sleep. He explains that skipping sleep hurts your performance and...

Clay Scroggins discusses how to lead without being in the top position. Have you ever looked at your work situation and thought about how things might be different if you were the one in charge? In reality, it’s possible to lead from a spot of influence rather than a position of authority. In this audio-only course, Pete Mockaitis speaks with Clay Scroggins, author of How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge, about how to lead without being in the...

Interruptions are an inevitable part of your workday. Chris Bailey discusses the many ways you can prevent yourself from getting distracted ahead of time. Chris Bailey explores how distractions affect productivity, as well as what you can do ahead of time to keep yourself from getting sidetracked. Ironically, one of the best ways to manage your attention is to let your mind rest. This usually works best when paired with a habit or activity that anchors,...