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How do you recognize your own progress and do you ever stop to praise yourself for it? In this short podcast I replay part of a previous conversation with Katherine Isbister who talks about working 8-5 M-F, being productive and praising yourself. I connect this to another conversation I had this week about challenges recognizing progress, as well as research around self-compassion and savoring.See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/7/23/rw9-progress-and-praise for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

This short related-work podcast follows up on the last conversation with Michael Bungay-Stanier, to present the seven coaching-like questions from his book ‘The Coaching Habit’ for helping us to stay curious longer, jump to advice a little more slowly. I also reflect on my experiences trying to apply this in my academic life where I see it as one of our most powerful tools to help empower and develop good people.

Michael Bungay-Stanier is an internationally renowned author, company founder and thought leader in coaching. Michael is the founder of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. He's the author of 6 books, the best known of which is The Coaching Habit which has sold close to a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews. His latest book The Advice Trap, focuses on what it takes to tame your Advice Monster. We start off the conversation reflecting on his career choices and discussing the differences between academia and industry. He then discusses what it means to be more coach-like in our work - staying curious a little longer, asking good questions, and being slower to jump to advice – as well as how to recognise our different advice monsters. We finish off with some questions posed by participants on a recent academic leadership development course. Overview (times approximate): 00:28 Preamble 04:07 Bio 07:26 Career choices, meaning and impact 11:41 Academia 16:45 Staying curious longer 18:05 Advice challenges 23:26 Getting practical 32:22 Advice monsters & their prizes and punishments 42:51 Responding to questions 51:32 Wrap up 53:55 End See www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/6/10/michael-bungay-stanier for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links

Dr Tanita Casci, Head of Research Policy, and Dr. Elizabeth Adams, Workstream Lead – Research Culture, at the University of Glasgow, talk about creating a positive collegial research culture as the vehicle for doing good research, along with practical strategies for how they support, reward and celebrate good practice. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/5/21/tanita-casci-elizabeth-adams for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/5/7/jeremy-birnholtz for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, a transcript and related links

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/30/cal-56-neha-kumar for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/23/rw7-job-crafting for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/11/rw6-superpowers for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/3/19/john-tang  for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links.

See www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/3/10/aaron-quigley for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links. As broad overview here: 02:00 Career path from degree in Computer Science to Head of School at UNSW 16:00 Making choices, strategic hindsight and foresight, and getting the right advice 22:55 The importance of silent warriors and service roles and his secret power of caring about getting things done and not caring about who gets the credit 34:15 His secret power of listening 37:55 Moving into his new role as Head of School 44:45 His secret power of talking

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/2/25/rw5-sweetspot  for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/2/16/austen-rainer for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/2/11/rw4-excellence for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog-rw/2021/2/3/rw3-appreciate for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog-rw/2021/1/16/from-adapting-to-growing for a time-stamped overview of the content and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog-rw/2021/1/7/year-of-being-bold for a time-stamped overview of the content and related links.

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See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/8/28/eunice-sari for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

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