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:

Watch me do this

Help me do this

Let’s do this together

I’ll help you do this

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

Related Episodes

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

The Four Stories Leaders Need For Influence, with David Hutchens (episode 148)

How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally, with Kim Scott (episode 302)

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