In this episode of THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT HOT SEAT, Andy’s guest is author Liz Wiseman. She is the author of the NY Times bestselling book Multipliers and has a new book out called Impact Players. She is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. Her book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent clients include Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and more. She’s been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking, and in 2019, she was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University as a former executive at Oracle, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and is the global leader for human resources development.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. Why Liz Wiseman wrote her latest book and why it’s so timely right now.
2. The difference between rock-solid contributors and impact players and how their managers describe them.
3. The story of her rise at Oracle and how she eventually forged her own path.
4. How doing what’s on the agenda and important to the business and leadership can help you become an impact player in your organization.
5. The reason influence is more about having a service mindset than a big voice.
6. What upward empathy means and how you can use that in your role at your company.
7. Why some impact players have natural skills and others have learned skills.
8. How you can build a workforce of impact players and use your training dollars in other areas.
9. Why most managers prefer to hire people who are fun.
10. Some actionable advice from Liz Wiseman on how to help contributors become impact players.
11. Some practical tips for how you can help your employees convert from contributors to impact players.
12. How micromanaging your employees can prevent them from becoming impact players on your team.
13. What managers can do to give their people a fighting chance at working as impact players.
14. Some ways organizations can foster a culture of impact players.
15. A preview of Liz Wiseman’s new career advice blog.

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