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Focusing on getting what's fair to you will make you bitter. Bitter people don't get promoted.

Bitterness is poison to careers. Bitter people think they deserve more than they get in life. They’re never satisfied with what they have. They’re usually paranoid and think everyone is out to get them. They don’t appreciate the kindness of other people. They think they deserve it. They don’t acknowledge that other peoples’ skills and hard work are responsible for their success. They don’t acknowledge their own faults and shortcomings. 

You’re only ruining YOUR OWN LIFE when you’re bitter. 

Don't be bitter. Be BETTER.

Focus on doing good. Focus on your success. Focus on learning, growing, giving, and setting boundaries. Focus on what's good for you and for other people, not on what's fair. Focus on the future, not the past.

In today's episode, we talk through how focusing on doing good will get you promoted.

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Guys. Stop stealing from your company.

You might think, "I'm not stealing from the company!" 

Yeah, so did I. 

Give this a listen. You might just change your mind, change your work life, and change your timeline for becoming a manager.

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 to hear it!

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Underperformers can plummet a team's enthusiasm and morale. They can kill projects, suck motivation, and make their colleagues look bad.

So - if you're trying to become a people manager - what do you do?

In this episode, we talk through what to do, how to do it, and why this flow matters:

1. Compensate for their underperformance (short-term ONLY).
2. Talk to their manager and CHECK your understanding of their performance.
3. Pull them into a deeper relationship with the team. Try to help them get better yourself. Work with their boss on remediating them. 

It's not easy to overcome having an underperforming team member... but it is rewarding to help them become star performers.

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Even the most honest person can work on their integrity.

Integrity is more than just telling the truth.

Integrity is about doing what you say you'll do when you say you'll do it.

Senior leaders only promote leaders they believe have integrity. If you don't have integrity, you will not become a manager. It's the KEY characteristic of a strong, long-lasting leader.

In this episode, I go into an embarrassing, cringe-worthy example of someone who learned to have integrity and the steps a manager goes through when they find someone without integrity.

If you're looking to be a manager, listen to this episode to find out how you can PROVE that you have integrity at work.

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When you use weak words or you kneecap your sentences, people notice - either subconsciously or consciously - and they treat you as someone who’s not confident and doesn’t deserve to be a people manager. They treat you like someone who isn’t sure, even though you were trying to be polite. They treat you like someone who didn’t do the work you did, even though you’re the resident expert in the room. 

Your words matter. 

Use strong words and people will respect your strength of character. Use strong words and your point of view will be valued more often.

There are words to avoid and words to start using. Let’s go into words to avoid first. This might be the hardest part for you if you’re used to using these words. I know I still slip up every now and then.

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I want to talk about something that might spook you: the Finance Department. 

I know, I know, the Finance Department has a reputation at nearly every company for being full of weird number nerds who like to be direct and tell people what they can and can’t do. They’re a cause of frustration and anxiety, but let me tell you - they’re actually awesome and I’m going to tell you why. 

Finance people are just people who like numbers. They (usually) want to help YOU help the COMPANY.

They can be powerful allies or powerful opponents. Which one would you like to have? 

Be friendly. Be nice. Make friends with your finance people. Ask them for advice or help. Give them chocolates. They’re under-appreciated and so, so busy most of the time. They don’t like telling you that your idea is not going to help the company any more than you like confronting people who are doing something wrong.

They're doing their job.

Let's go into what this means, why it's important, and how you can start making friends with the Finance Department.

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When I was a junior product manager, just starting out, I had to learn to get consensus on projects before the company would sign off on them and before the team would start working on them. 

It was a two-stage process: Get sign-off from the higher-ups and get sign-off from the team that would be working on it. 

Here was the catch: Nobody worked for me. I had no authority over anyone at all, just a head on my shoulders, some data analysis and visualization skills, and a big mouth that wanted to tell people what to do. 

It didn’t always work out. 

So, I had to learn… how do you influence people, change their opinions and their behaviors, when you don’t have any place in the hierarchy and nothing to threaten them with? 

There’s no hint of them losing their jobs if they disagree with you and that’s a good thing! 

Can you imagine an immature person firing a project manager because he or she didn’t get what they wanted? I can imagine it, but it’s not a pretty picture. 

Anyway, I learned that it’s really not too difficult to influence without authority. It comes down to you having showing three basic characteristics:

1. You CARE about the person you're talking to and trying to persuade. 

2. You CARE about your customers and the people you're trying to help.

3. You CARE about the company you work for, their bottom line and their strategy.

Let's get into what caring looks like in practice in this podcast episode.

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Early in my career, I didn't understand that how I learn is not how everyone else learns.

This podcast dives into how an amazing (future) manager creates effective training programs for individuals and groups.

We talk through four different learning and teaching styles:

• Teaching with slides (not active), notes, go do it
• Demonstrate, then go do it
• Do it with them and troubleshoot together
• Let them figure it out with a written packet or video walkthrough

We then apply this to how you can PROVE that you're management material.

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This episode is about communicating with people who are different from you.

We dive into three core motivations: people, goals, and analytics. Then discuss how understanding what motivates others should change how you relate and communicate with them.

We also explore two different kinds of reasoning: inductive and deductive. Inductive reasoners and deductive reasoners want to hear information in different ways. Tailor your communication to the reasoning style and you'll both be less frustrated!

Let's do this!
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The most successful career climbers have a sneaky little secret: they don't leave their positions unfilled. 

You heard that right.

Before getting to the next step in their career, they find their own replacements. 

Ambitious future- or current-managers know that the best way to their next promotion is not JUST to PROVE they have the skills for their next move, but to backfill their position ahead of time, so there's no possible reason their boss should try to keep them.

I've done it over and over. And over. And over.

You can find your own replacement, too.

This podcast will walk you through how.

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