Episode Details

Pete Mockaitis: How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Pete Mockaitis is the host of the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast, regularly listed as a top careers show on Apple podcasts.

Key Points

• Your sense of ownership in your work can have huge consequences in how well things unfold.
• Self-efficacy has a large effect on your sense of ownership in your work.
• Try to connect the job someone is doing with the overall mission of the organization.
• The effects of micromanaging can be disastrous for an organization.
• When delegating a job, think about the critical components of the job and what you want the result to be, then let employees get the job done however they see fit.
• Delegation doesn’t have to be an all-in-one-shot type of thing, it can be done in stages.

Steps to delegating:

1. Watch me do this
2. Help me do this
3. Let’s do this together
4. I’ll help you do this
5. I’ll watch you do this.

Resources Mentioned

• Albert Bandura
• The 80/20 Principle* by Richard Koch
• Essentialism* by Greg McKeown
• The ONE Thing* Gary Keller Jay Papasan
• Arthur Woods podcast episode
• Jeff McManus podcast episode
• Financial Intelligence* by Joe Knight
• Improve Your Financial Intelligence, with Joe Knight (episode 244)

Episodes from the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast that may be of value to your team:

• Increasing Confidence by Increasing Self-Awareness with Dr. Tasha Eurich
• Making Stress Work for You with Dr. Melanie Greenberg
• Overcoming Self-limiting Beliefs with R. Michael Anderson
• Honing Your Persuasive Skills with Kwame Christian
• Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

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• The Seven Steps You Follow To Delegate Work (episode 117)

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