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On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Can I Give Sage Advice to My Direct Reports?

Cristina is an organizational change expert and a practical philosopher who provides CEOs and entrepreneurs guided spaces for deeper thinking. With Cristina’s help, they motivate themselves to achieve greater success with direction and determination.

This week’s lead question was posed by What’s Your Work Fit? viewer Benno:

Benno is a senior team leader for a major insurance company. He freely admits that he was not a great student of philosophy in college and did everything he could to avoid Philosophy 101, one of the handful of elective courses available to him at his state university.

Years later, Benno has done well in his career and currently leads a team of about 20 managers. The work is challenging and the demands on his team (from the C-suite) can be unrelenting. Benno’s run out of his bag of tricks–and sports metaphors–to keep his team inspired, engaged, and happy.

So, in a hat-tip to the philosophy course he avoided in college, Benno asks: how can I give sage advice to my direct reports?

During this information packed episode, Cristina also answers “what’s your work fit?’ Her personal vision surely will resonate with many career professionals.

About our guest:

Cristina DiGiacomo is an organizational change expert and practical philosopher. She lives and works in New York City.

This episode originated as a live show on August 2, 2023. You can watch the show in its entirety on the What’s Your Work Fit YouTube Channel.

EPISODE DATE: August 11, 2023

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On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Do I Engage a Career Mentor?

Our guest is Stefan Bradham.

Stefan is the VP of Marketing and Communications at the National Minority Supplier Development Council in Washington, D.C.

He is also the VP of Mentoring for the D.C. Chapter of the American Marketing Association; through his professional involvements, Stefan helps organizations and people to “find themselves” through strategic marketing and other capabilities.

This week’s lead question was posed by What’s Your Work Fit? viewer Claire:

Claire is new-to-the-workplace. And, she has a lot of ambition. Claire recognizes that she’d benefit by receiving the regular insight and advice of a career mentor, to help her shape her workplace experience. But she doesn’t know how to go about getting one.

So Claire asks: how do I engage a career mentor?

During this information packed episode, Stefan also answers “what’s your work fit?’ His personal vision surely will resonate with many career professionals.

About our guest:

Stefan Bradham is the VP of Marketing and Communications for the National Minority Supplier Development Council, a trade association. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.

This episode originated as a live show on July 19, 2023. You can watch the show in its entirety on the What’s Your Work Fit YouTube Channel.

EPISODE DATE: July 28, 2023

Stefan’s social media:

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