Lean OUT or Lean IN: Choose Your Own Career with Marissa Orr
Build High Performing Teams Podcast
Release Date: 02/18/2020
How To Build Your Career Success Team
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“I feel like I'm not doing a good job at my work, in my life. I feel lonely and overwhelmed.” I hear this a lot. My advice is that you shouldn’t be navigating the work world alone. There are resources and people to have on your own personal “team”. If you don’t have this support team already, it is your job to build it and sustain it. In this episode, I’ll tell you the roles you need to support you in your work life, internal and external, and explain what exactly to seek from these roles. Discussed in this Episode: How to promote internal success as a leader How to...
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Talking About Race and Other Taboo Topics At Work
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In today’s episode, Anna interviews Alonzo Kelly, founder and CEO of Kelly Leadership. As a sought after speaker and consultant, Alonzo leverages his corporate executive experience and 14 years as a coach and consultant to positively impact the world of work and leaders. Alonzo shares advice on “Talking about Race and Other Taboo Topics At Work” and why it’s time we do it more and better. Anna and Alonzo discuss: How to prepare for talking about race in the workplace How to create the change The power of "being a witness" How to create a safe place to talk about and understand...
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Stay Put
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DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB! I can't tell you how many people reached out to me each week that are asking questions like: · ”Is this what I should be doing with my life?” · “Isn't there something better than this?” · “I feel like I could be doing more.” · “I feel like my values could be aligned to the organization better?” These questions are what motivated my TEDx talk. To talk to the change-maker,...
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Anti-Corporate or Pro-Humanity?
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Just the other day, I got asked by a client “to tone down my anti-corporate messaging”. Yikes. And I was a little taken aback. In fact, they said they watched my TEDx talk, which is about leveraging your job now and letting that take you to your best next, whatever that is. This was one of the things that made them think that. So this is not a defensive rant, guys, you can watch my TEDx talk and search by my name: Anna Oakes. My talk is about leveraging your now to get to your best next. Feel free to listen to it yourself. But here's the thing, guys, this isn't a defense, this is an...
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What is an INTRApreneur?
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I want to talk to you about intrapreneurs, I get this question asked a lot, “What is an intrapreneur?” A lot of people ask me if I am an intrapreneur, everybody wants to know, so here we go. I have a little bit of knowledge about what an intrapreneur is. In today’s episode, I’m going to tell you why I am passionate about it, how I got to this topic, and then how I support the work of intrapreneurs. Okay, so a definition of an intrapreneur is someone who displays entrepreneurial traits and chooses to work within an organization. So that could be a for-profit company, non-profit...
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Emotions at Work with Dr. Kurt Nelson
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Emotions at work. I swear, when I said that half of you cringed, either because of your own emotions or the emotions of people that you have had to deal with. And look, as someone who has been a coach and worked with 2 individuals to 20 individuals on conflict resolution, communication, productivity and mental health in the workplace...emotions are something that are either going to hinder or help a person or a situation. I am passionate about helping you make sure that your emotions, or the emotions of other people actually help the situation and not hinder it, so I am introducing Dr Kurt...
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Leveraging Your Varied Experience For Career Success with Connie Steele
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Alright, alright, alright friends! We've got Connie Steele joining us today and I feel like we just dropped a free masterclass on how you can own your career and make an impact where you're at. Connie Steele is the co-founder of Flywheel Associates. She also has a lovely podcast and an online resource called Strategic Momentum so check them out! Their website is stocked with all amazing resources for you so please check that out. But we really wanted to spend time talking to the individuals within organizations who want to leverage where they're at right now, and they want to grow, they want...
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What Empathy at Work Truly Looks Like with Alain Hunkins
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Alright peeps in today's episode we're talking about a concept that I see leaders and employees struggle with a lot and it's the concept of empathy. It is a strength for some, yet it is confusing to others. My guest today, Alain Hunkins, is the best selling author of Cracking the Leadership Code, and he and I really dive deep, as people who have been working with leaders, facilitating training, and coaching for over 20 years each. We really gathered together to talk about how we define empathy, and how we work with a concept like holding space. It is one of the most powerful tools we can do...
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A Philosopher's Take On Performance with Deb Helfrich
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You guys. This episode is so good! Alright, you're gonna join me for this conversation. Deb and I got to know each other on LinkedIn, which is where I find a lot of my network expanding over the past ten plus years. Deb was in corporate as an HRIS, which is more of the IT side of HR technology data, working for fifteen to twenty years. Now she's out on her own under the consulting business called Insights Occur. I love her mentality. She says she is all about love and logic intertwined. You're gonna really enjoy her energy but here's the value in this conversation. Deb really considers herself...
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A Royal Marine's Take On Building High Performing Teams with Roderic Yapp
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Hello! I am very excited to give you guys exposure to Roderic Yapp today. He's a former Royal Marines officer, an accredited coach and specialist in developing resilience and leadership skills. We touch on his TEDx talk that he gave a few years back on adaptive leadership techniques but we also just focus a lot on the tactical skills to individually and collectively move towards high performance. We also talk about maintaining your team in that zone of hyper performance because it's easy for humans to get distracted, for ego to take over, for other things to happen. Sometimes high performing...
info_outlineI’m super excited for today’s episode because Marissa Orr is going to join us as she shares her experiences working for some of the most innovative companies in the country and how she learned to lean out in order to own her career. For those of you who don't know Marissa Orr; Marissa is a former Google & Facebook executive, bestselling author, and leadership speaker. Spending 15 years working at today’s top tech giants, she has conducted talks for thousands of people in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Originally from Miami, Orr received her Master’s degree in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida. Her best-selling book, Lean Out, The Truth About Women, Power, & the Workplace, was released by HarperCollins Leadership in June of 2019.
“I really had to rewire my personality, though, because I've never been known for my planning and discipline and I’m somewhat of an impulsive and instant gratification kind of person. So we spent a lot of time reading and figuring out how to instill habits and routine and discipline.” At minute 13:05, Marissa talks about how she had to adapt after getting a new job and had to create habits of productivity in order to uplevel her performance.
“I want to make sure we take a minute to define what “lean out” means, because a lot of people don’t know. It doesn't mean that you quit your job, it doesn't mean you reduce your ambition, and it doesn't mean you can take your foot off the pedal of your career. The essence of the title is really about leaning out of anyone else's story for what your career should look like or what success looks like.” At 23:38, Marissa talks about the meaning of “lean out,” the title of her book and the importance of both defining your career and making it your own, not letting other people define your career for you.
“...one of the solutions I talk about to things like that is around holding people accountable for objective measures of success. It's not easy. But the point that I make is, had the leader of that organization been graded on the outcome of the project after the fact, instead of, you know, how she looked in the process of the project, the outcome might have been different.” At minute 42:59, Marissa talks about making sure your team has objective measures of success when working on projects. Not only will this push your team to perform better, but will also give them motivation and something to strive for.
Marissa shared a lot of valuable information about owning both your career and your life. She also gave a lot of helpful tips to fellow entrepreneurs, so make sure to stay tuned!
If you want to know more about Marissa and learn all about her at https://www.marissaorr.com, and don’t forget to follow her on Instagram @marissabethorr. Go follow her now! And don’t forget to purchase her book titled, “Lean Out,” available on her website and on Amazon.
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Peace & Progress,
Anna