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How a 2x TEDx Workplace Performance Expert Makes Awkward Moments Turn into Career Growth Opportunities
About this episode
In this episode of the Influence Anyone Podcast, host Howie Chan interviews Henna Pryor, a Workplace Performance Expert, a 2x TEDx speaker, a regular expert columnist for Inc. Magazine, and a best-selling author. They delve into what embracing awkwardness really entails, the skills now being lost in the modern era that we need to recreate in the workplace, and what it looks like to make big career pivots.
Henna provides tips and insights on how to successfully navigate awkward moments and situations, build deeper connections, get better at selling, and become more confident.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 How Henna embraced awkwardness
0:09:26 What you risk reveals what you value
0:11:48 Awkward confidence and how to get good at it
0:19:45 Practical tips to navigate awkward situations
0:23:21 Less perfect and awkwardness vs vulnerability
0:28:47 The story behind Henna's second career pivot
0:39:07 A sales hack for better results in less time
0:43:37 How awkwardness became Henna’s banner
0:46:07 The true value of awkwardness and small bets
0:52:26 A letter to Henna’s younger self
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Watch Henna’s 2 TEDxTalks Want to get ahead at work? Risk the awkward moments and The new way to brag in the modern world - and feel good doing it.
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