Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast Yadira Caro

Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the end, the customer was not interested. 
What went wrong? They just don’t get it, right? Perhaps you did not bothered to put yourself in the feet of the customer. You did not show enough empathy. Something similar happened to my guest jermy adamson. Jeremy is the author of the book Geek with Empathy. 
Jeremy is a leader in AI and analytics strategy, and has a broad range of experience in aviation, energy, financial services, retail, and public administration
You will learn today how to build empathy with those around you to bring you better results at work. He say at the root of every tech problem there is an empathy problem. 
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Lets talk about AI, Artificial Intelligence. You are probably using itn right now to make your life easier, create transcripts, products, images… but are you really using it to make yourself a better person? Today you will learn how in this conversation with Camilo Rojas, Ph. D.

Camilo is the CEO and Founder of ProjectUs.ai, a venture capitalist backed MIT Media Lab spinoff that created an AI tool that seeks to help people become the best version of themselves. 
Camilo did his postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on the ethical use of AI to help people develop complex skills that we talk about on the podcast such as e.g., empathy, self-awareness, effective communication, etc.), and to help teams and organizations become more creative, cohesive and productive. 
Today, you will learn how Project Us AI was developed and how it works, misconceptions about AI and possibilities for the future.
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How do I  help my team become agile?
 
Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS.  If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have spoken to globally recognized authors, Harvard professors, military leaders, psychologists, pscyhitiatrics, people who have done scientific reserahc on how to become better at the so called "soft" skills to help you thrive in your career.
I want to thank you for being with me in this learning journey. I started this alongside my graduate studies in Organizational Psychology at Harvard, and through my own career journey which at this time involves working with multiole technical teams to help them become high perfoming, and create an agile organization. 
This is why today I chose to highlight this topic of agility because it embodies what soft skills are about, how to integrate human dynamics to deliver a solution. 
In this episode I’ll play some excerpts from some of the folks who co-created the famous Agile Manifesto, the base document for all things agile. Let's listen to Jeff Sutherland talking about what makes a great team, Jon Kern, on what we really need or don’t need, to get things done faster, and Arie van Benekum on the essentials of collaboration. 

It is time to take an inventory of your year, figure out what do you eally want: a new job, a new career, growth. 
So I will replay an excerpt of my interview with executive coach and author Dr Gary Crotaz. He is considered one of the top coaching leaders in the world.  Listen to his model based on his book The IDEA Mindset where he breaks down how to conduct a good self assessments and define our true path. 
 
 

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team. 
To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter. 
The feeling that management or even team members do not realize how much we contribute to a team is something I hear often. We usually hear the advice of ‘just put your head down’ do the work and it will be noticed.' But this is rarely the case and we just need to be more strategic about it. 
This is why when I read the book Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman, I knew I wanted her on the show. In the book and as she discusses in our conversation, she describes what disnguishes good employees vs those that really make an impct and seemed to be relied upon the most. 
 

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team. 
To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter. 
If there is a skill I need help with, and I am sure you do to, is how to deal with difficult people. People who either may come at you screaming, or be condescending or whom we may simply be consider plain crazy. Sometimes we may be the crazy person in a situation. 
So I had the honor to speak with a psychiatrist about it. Dr Mark Goulston gave critical techniques on how to act during a moment of heated conversation.