Fireside Chat with Marcus Buckingham

How much of your workday do you spend playing to your strengths? - Chat with Marcus Buckingham

In this 41 minute podcast, I chat with speaker, author, and best selling author  Marcus Buckingham. We discuss the barriers that get in the way of us playing to our strengths at work and strategies that we can use to increase the amount of time we spend on tasks that strengthen us (and reduce the time we spend on tasks that weaken us). This is a lively and helpful podcast and Marcus shares several stories and suggestions that can help everyone enjoy their work more fully while benefiting the organization in a deeper way. This is also a great podcast for managers because we chat about the manager's role in leveraging strengths. Join the strengths revolution!

Marcus will be offering presentations in several cities March-May. Click here to see his tour schedule.  While this is a tour to share his new book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work and his DVD training series Trombone Player Wanted, he has teamed up with local organizations to offer these talks for a great value. For my fellow Seattlites, Marcus will be presenting on March 19th. The Puget Sound Chapters of ASTD, ODN, and SHRM have teamed up to produce the event. For $35-45 you get the book and tons of extras. And Marcus is very good speaker, so it will be a great event for sure. I will be there, let me know if you plan on going. Also, for those of you in the New York City area, Marcus asked that I pass along that he will on PBS station WLIW for pledge week. You can see Marcus on 2/11/07 from 3:00-4:30pm.

Want to know what Marcus means when he says that ,"on some level we are all deeply mysterious?" Listen to this podcast!

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You can also download an MP3 version of the podcast here: MP3 Download

And just a reminder.....

Here is the Podcast Feed for the entire Fireside Chat podcast series:

To see the complete list of podcasts in this series, select the Podcasts and Webcasts category on this blog or see the list on my main website here.

You can also find this series on iTunes (and several other podcast sites), just search under my last name for Fireside Chat.

Comments

[Linda Zdanowicz]

I am just finishing the last few pages of Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. I just zipped over to Amazon and ordered Go Put Your Strengths To Work. I can't wait to get it. I am excited to try using the strengths finder with our staff. I plan to ask my boss to buy each of them a copy. As a 'learning by the seat of my pants' manager I read voraciously and this book seems to have a lot that I can use. I am amazed at how accutately my strengths were rated. Thanks for mentioning the new book.
Linda

[Lisa Haneberg]

Linda - Glad you re finding Marcus's books helpful. From what I have researched, I think you will find loss of helpful information in the new one.