E220 | Kim Scott: Just Work

What would we be able to accomplish if our teams, cultures and companies encouraged people to give each other feedback with radical candor, speak up when wronged and challenge colleagues and supervisors to think differently? What would happen if we were able to recognize, attack and eliminate workplace injustice and “just work”? 

 

On today’s episode we talk to Kim Scott, author of Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair as well as Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Kim co-founded two companies that help organizations put the ideas in her books into practice. She’s also been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies and held leadership roles at Apple and Google. Earlier in her career she managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.

 

We discuss: 

• How to give and receive difficult feedback 
• Best hiring practices (how to set checks and balances)
• Using improv as a way to scenario plan for hard conversations
• When and why it’s okay to get communication wrong

 

Connect with Kim:

Via her books: Radical Candor & Just Work 

Via Instagram: @kimmalonescott 

Via Twitter: @kimballscott

Via her website: https://kimmalonescott.com/just-work

 

Despite her international acclaim for work in these areas, Kim agrees these skills can’t be learned by just reading her books. Like any leadership or interpersonal skills, they must be practiced in real time in the presence of others. 

 

That’s why we created The Apprenticeship communication workshop- so coaches and leaders could be around people from different backgrounds and professions, step outside of their own environment and get reps giving and getting feedback and having hard conversations. Check out our upcoming events at artofcoaching.com/apprenticeship. 

 

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