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Real Job Talk

Liz Bronson & Kathleen Nelson Troyer

Seasoned HR and recruiting consultants Liz and Kat help you navigate your career and get through your work day. Go beyond the employee manual for some real job talk!

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Episode 23: Listener Question: What do you do if...

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2019/11/05

We have a letter! This one addresses an issue that happens too often in the workplace: an unethical boss from a friend who signed off as, “My Boss is a Fraud With a Nice Car”. Ugh. The bottom line for our friend: it’s time for a new job! People act funny for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it means something is going on that is not being communicated with the staff. If you sense something shady, do your research and see if it might be a bigger company issue like bankrupcy or acquisition. If someone

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Episode 22: Coaching through change with Tracy Asamoah

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2019/10/22

Liz and Kat talk today with Tracy Asamoah, a coach and psychiatrist who works with people around life transitions. If you’re stuck, she will move you forward in a calm, mindful way. Tracy’s background: she describes her journey from academic/non-profit work as a psychiatrist to private practice to a coach, mostly working with women, focusing around transitioning in their life and career. Tracy and her partners are building an unusual practice, combining the skills of physicians, psychiatrists and

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Episode 21: Active Listening

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2019/10/08

Welcome! We’re talking about active listening in the workplace this week. What do we mean? In Active Listening, the listener fully listens, contemplates, and responds. The more we can actively listen, the more we can practice and the better we get. As a manager, active listening empowers employees and supports them in coming up with solutions, which helps employees thrive and builds trust. If instead you aren't really listening, you're either not taking advantage the value of the rest of your team,

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Episode 20: Career change perspective with Andrew Miller

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2019/09/24

How do you go about considering and executing a job change? Liz & Kat talk with technologist Andrew Miller about his thoughtful process: when to leave, what to go towards, playing to your strengths, taking sabbaticals, and activating your network. Andrew is a technologist based out of South Carolina. He started as a consultant, implementing IT systems, and then went into pre-sales consulting. He then joined the fast-growing Silicon Valley startup Rubrik where he managed a team of other

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Episode 19: Building a Human-First Culture - Carlos...

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2019/09/10

Welcome Carlos!! Carlos tells us his background from non-profit to marketing to consulting. He talks through how giving it all to his business and not nourishing his relationships led to burnout, which made him re-start his career and write The UnAmerican Dream. What is a human first culture? Thinking about employees as people, not assets. We think about what causes behavior, and then figure out what drives people to bring out their best. When you set expectations, care about people and trust them,

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Episode 18: Conferences, Parties, and Events

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2019/08/25

In this episode we’re talking about the fun stuff at work. Parties, conferences….the not in the office “fun times”. What do I need to remember- what’s the difference between having fun and too much fun? Conferences, off-site gatherings, Club/kickoffs. General rules across all off-site/off-hours rules: IT”S A WORK EVENT! Keep your “work mask” on. Keep behavior appropriate and professional. Alternate water and cocktails Don’t drink too much- Network- think of it as an opportunity to get to know other

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Episode 17: Oversharing at Work

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2019/08/13

We’re people, and we bring our lives to work, but what are the lines and what can we share and not share at work? Bottom line: be yourself, but maybe you should be your work self. Try not to let your personal life affect your work product. We break it down into three categories: Health, Relationships, and Family. Health: We all have our own filters, and your health issues may bring up issues for others. You going on about health issues can make a co-worker feel badly for cutting you off when they

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Episode 16: Building Effective Teams with J. Mike Smith

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2019/07/30

Welcome to Liz and Kat’s former boss, J. Mike Smith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikesmithbackwest/) from BackWest Consulting (http://backwest.com/about/)! We invited Mike on to talk about teams, building teams, what makes good teams, and how to be good team member. First, Mike breaks down for us the difference between teams and work groups. What are the interdependencies? Building a goal, vision and figure out what the team is trying to do? Process of building a team- Mike calls it the Road

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Episode 15: Questions to ask in a job interview

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2019/07/16

A lot of the job interview is other people asking you questions. But we've always told you that you should be asking them questions as well! But our bad -- we tell people to ask questions, but we didn’t help them figure them out what to ask. Oops! This epsiode takes you through some of our thoughts and advice around making the interview a two-way street. Look at your must-have list that you made after you heard episode #2, and ask questions that make sure your must have lists are met. Listen to the

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Episode 14: Mindfulness at Work

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2019/07/02

Alexis Pokorny is our guest for this epsiode. Alexis’ background in sales at Cisco, and how she turned around a team using mindfulness and how she rolled out a mindfulness program for Cisco’s 70,000 employees. This program became her passion, and she launched Open Deltas to help more teams incorporate mindfulness into companies from mom and pop shops to Fortune 50. We ask Alexis for her goals of Open Deltas. She helps people see that the ways they are working isn’t sustainable. How does Alexis

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Episode 13: Tips for New Managers

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2019/06/18

Our Resources for New Managers (/resources-for-new-managers) page Listener question! Yay!!! Today we answer a listener's questions about becoming a new manager, and how to go from individual contributor to manager without looking like a newbie. We discuss the potential lack of development opportunities for new managers, and how to learn how to managing people and being someone your team will look up to and respond to. First, do you want to be a manager? Do you want to be dealing with the people

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Episode 12: Imposter syndrome, risks, and...

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2019/06/04

Welcome Amy Lewis, aka @commsninja! Amy is an incredible influence marketer in the tech world, and we’re so excited for her to join us to talk about her experience, and our topic du jour- Imposter Syndrome. Amy shares about public speaking being a trigger for Imposter Syndrome. We talk about how Imposter Syndrome kicks in when we’re being spotlighted for our expertise, and how we feel like an imposter at different times in our mastery of a new topic. We talk about the moment of risk taking, and how

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Episode 11: Negotiating Your Offer

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2019/05/21

Do you talk about compensation in the job talk process? Quick answer- YES! Don't game the process- be clear on what you want. Holding back information puts you at a disadvantage with your offer- it will end up with low results until they know what you expect. Answer the question with what you WANT to make- what it will take for you to sign on the bottom line. How do you find out what you're worth? Ask ex-colleagues, do research online....and look at the whole package and the whole package value, not

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Episode 10: Surviving a layoff

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2019/05/07

Our goal with this episode is to help you prepare for a layoff, to know what to look for before it happens, to be ready for it, to leave your current role gracefully, and how to go about a post-layoff search. Before the layoff: Follow your company news, and look for signs the company, or your group, isn't doing well. Listen for indicators like, "We're phasing out your product", or know if there is a scandal. Update your resume, start networking, think about what your "must have" list will be, and

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Episode 9: Guest: Chris Gaither - Burnout Advice...

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2019/04/18

Liz and Kat introduce Chris (who Liz has known forever!). We talk about human sustainability and reflection on staying healthy within the work that you do. We discuss feeling stuck and working past it. Advice around listening to that "wise voice inside yourself". Our brains and bodies have a lot of wisdom in them, and we need to listen. We talk about burnout, signs on burnout and how to listen to what's happening from our physical, emotional and happiness perspectives, and how to take care of

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Episode 8: Help! I Don't Know How To Ask For a Raise!

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2019/04/09

Liz and Kat answer a listener question around how to ask for a raise. We talk about the best ways to approach the topic, how to read the situation before you ask, and ultimately how to be successful in getting yourself paid more for your job.

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Episode 7: Asking friends for professional advice:...

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2019/03/21

Have you been wondering if you've been taking too much of your friends' time asking questions in their area of expertise? Join Kat and Liz and their guests John Troyer and Dr. Michelle Natinsky as we talk about how to be friends with people with expertise in areas of our lives without overstepping. A marketer, a shrink and 2 career coaches walk into a podcast.....what happens? You get practical advice about how to work with your friends without making it awkward and overstepping boundaries

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Episode 6: Ever worked with a real a-hole?

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2019/03/07

Today Liz and Kat giggle and swear as we discuss a bunch of aspects of working with tough characters who “never do anything wrong”. Listen in for tips on how to sniff out assholes in the interview process, how to succeed on a team with them, how to coach them, and how to manage them. After you listen, you should be able to navigate your relationships with assholes in the workplace with ease, grace and without losing your cool.

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Episode 5: Even after the interview, you're still not...

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2019/02/21

You aced the interview, but you don't have the new job until you accept the offer! Liz and Kat cover how you navigate in the period after the interview. After the interview, should you send thank you notes? Would a thank-you gift make you stand out? When can you check back if you haven't heard anything? What do you do if you realize you totally screwed up an answer? What's the number one thing you should do while you're waiting to hear back from your dream job? When do you give up? Do people lose

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Episode 4: How do they find you? Secrets of the...

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2019/02/07

This week, Kat and Liz sit down with our very first guest- super sourcer and recruiter Angie Verros, owner of Vaia Talent and host of the recruiting conference Talent 42. Angie breaks down the difference between sourcing and recruiting, helps us figure out HOW that person got your name and contact information, and teaches us the different ways recruiters and sourcers work together. Join us to uncover more secrets behind the recruiting process, and learn how to make yourself more findable by the

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