- Wise Words - Webinar: From Hate to Habit. How to Excel at the Least Favorite Parts of Our Workday by fergus mellon
When choosing a career, the advice we often receive is "do something you love". While this is good advice, it does not mean everything we will do during our nine-to-five are tasks we will love.
In fact, we're likely winning in our career choice if we love 80% of our day. If we dislike 20% of the work though, it doesn't mean we should ignore it. Instead to be 100% successful we need to excel at the tasks we don't love, even if we don't actually hate them!
The following are covered in the webinar:
Devil & Detail: Why we should master the devil and even more importantly how we can make that mental shift to focus on it.
Personal Organization: Tactics on how to ensure that we can focus so we can crush it at work.
The Interpersonal Bits: Covers the host of interpersonal areas (giving and receiving feedback, building relationships with everyone in your team, networking) that we can find difficult and approaches to succeeding at them.
Working From Home: Quick tips on how to be effective when working remotely.
Hope it's a good listen!
Fergus Mellon is author of Early Stage Professional: starting off right. He is also a digital media executive and has worked at a mix of large media companies (AOL, Gannett), start-ups (PebblePost, Meebo, Federated Media) as well as adtech (Criteo, Rubicon Project).
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