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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2026-02-02 · 37 min · 5,881 words

1125: How to Reclaim Your Presence, Increase Your Influence, and Build Relationships that Last with Ravi Rajani

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Much of the time through life we try and deflect imperfect moments, cover them up, or really shy away from owning our mistakes, and I'm finding more so than ever before that when you feel or see a mistake, a Pause, smile, and say, this is a gift. This is a gift and use that imperfect moment as an opportunity to showcase your humanity because otherwise we can just end up being corporate robots. That's Ravi Rajani. He's widely seen as one of the world's top communication experts, and organizations such as OracleNet Suite, T-Bovel, and Sherwin Williams have engaged Ravi to help them and their people become masterful communicators to help build meaningful relationships that boost revenue growth and trust.

Children, one, the three Cs of building trust, two, what makes people say, tell me more, and three, why compliments can come across as insincere. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find over at awesomeatyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKaitis. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now, here's Ravi.

Ravi, welcome. You nailed the name. You nailed it first. I practiced. There wasn't even a right, can't we have to run that back?

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