How to Be Awesome at Your Job

2nd Year - 221: Becoming a Great Conversationalist with Celeste Headlee

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Show Notes

Journalist Celeste Headlee breaks down the steps towards being a better conversationalist.

— YOU’LL LEARN — 1) The top ways to have better conversations 2) The myths you believe about good listening 3) An eye-opening way to find out your bad habits as a conversationalist

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— ABOUT CELESTE — Celeste Headlee, Public Broadcast Radio Show Host, and Author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk. Celeste Headlee is the host of “On Second Thought” at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta and has been a host and correspondent for NPR and PRI since 2006. She has trained many journalists through NPR’s Next Generation program. Headlee also has appeared as a guest on CNN, the BBC, and other international networks, and in 2012, she anchored presidential election coverage for PBS World. • Book: We Need to Talk • Website: CelesteHeadlee.com • TED Talk: "10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation"

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Tool: Fitbit • Tool: S+ ResMed • Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens • Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens • Previous episode: 171: Brevity = Critical with Joe McCormack

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