Hard Earned with Laura Massetti

Real Work Ready
The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.
Learn more: www.realworkready.com


Look to your left. Look to your right. You are looking at a mentor. Most people wait until they are stuck to go looking for one. Nobody tells you that the people who most want to mentor you are already around you, and that the easiest moment to build that relationship has already passed by the time you realize you needed it.
Dr. Deborah Heiser is an applied developmental psychologist, TEDx speaker, Thinkers50 honoree, founder of The Mentor Project, and founder of Mental Mapping. Through The Mentor Project she and her team delivered over 3.5 million hours of mentorship. She is the author of The Mentorship Edge. In this conversation, she shares what all of that taught her about what mentorship actually is, why it so often fails, and what it builds when it finally works the way it should.

In this episode:

• Why the most accomplished people in any organization are looking for someone to mentor right now, and why they cannot find early professionals to mentor
• What most people get wrong about mentorship that makes corporate programs fail and organic relationships never form
• What impact amnesia is and why early professionals who are not tracking their contributions right now will pay for it later
• What someone in year one or two of their career can do this week to start building the relationships and the track record that real mentorship requires

Real Work Ready
Mentorship is most valuable before you realize you need it. Real Work Ready gives early professionals the foundation to build the relationships, visibility, and track record that make it possible.
Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Deborah:
Website: deborahheiser.com
Book: The Mentorship Edge
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/deborahheiser_phd
Instagram: @deborah_heisertmp
TikTok: @deborahheiser0

Connect with Laura:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti
Instagram: @realworkreadyhq
Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

 www.realworkready.com  

Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

Most career advice tells you to work harder, learn more, and build more skills. Nobody tells you that at some point, none of that is enough. The ceiling is whether you can actually get things done with people who see the world differently than you do.

Michael Shipler has spent 25 years building coalitions and driving results in some of the most complex conflict environments in the world. He is VP of Common Ground Leadership at Search for Common Ground, a global peacebuilding organization nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the architect of a leadership development program built around a single conviction: the ability to collaborate across divides is the most critical skill of our time. In this conversation, he brings 25 years of working in the world's hardest places into a conversation about the skill every early professional needs to start building before they ever think they will need it.

In this episode:

• What 25 years in conflict zones, from Cambodia to Central Asia to the Horn of Africa, taught about how change actually happens and why most leadership development misses it completely
• Why the ability to collaborate across divides is becoming more valuable not less as AI equalizes technical capabilities across organizations
• What trust actually is, why dialogue alone does not build it, and what does
• What someone in year one or two of their career can start building right now that will distinguish them in ten years when most of their peers have never thought about this

Real Work Ready

The behaviors that let you get things done with people who see things differently are learnable before you ever need them. Real Work Ready gives early professionals the foundation to build them first.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Michael:

Common Ground Leadership: sfcg.org

Search for Common Ground: sfcg.org

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-shipler-0088a421

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

 www.realworkready.com  

Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

Most career advice tells you to do good work and let it speak for itself. Nobody tells you what is actually being observed on the other side of the table. Nobody tells you what HR leaders and managers are seeing, evaluating, and thinking about early career professionals that they almost never say out loud.

Dr. Dieter Veldsman is Chief HR Scientist at AIHR, a global HR academy serving over 65,000 professionals across 180 countries, a Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg, a former Group Chief HR Officer, and one of the most recognized voices on the future of work. He has presented at over 100 conferences, authored 80 articles, and co-authored books including Work for Humans. In this conversation, he brings the full weight of 18 years on the evaluating side of the table to an audience that has never had access to this view.

In this episode:

• What HR leaders are actually seeing and evaluating in early career professionals that most people have no idea is being observed
• Why the gap between university and the workplace persists even when organizations know it exists, and what it costs early professionals who do not know it is there
• What the research at AIHR reveals about what is changing in terms of what early professionals need to bring to the workplace right now
• What AI is making more valuable in a person, not less, and what someone in year one or two can start building before they ever need it

Real Work Ready

Everything Dr. Veldsman describes from the HR side of the table is exactly what Real Work Ready was built to teach from the professional side. The gap is real. The behaviors are learnable. The program is built for years 0 to 5.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Dieter:

AIHR: aihr.com

Book: Work for Humans

The HR Dialogues: youtube.com/@AIHRAcademytoInnovateHR

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dieterveldsman

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

 www.realworkready.com