Corporate Beyond Stories
By Kat, Baruš & Koláč
Want to understand where to fit in corporation and learn how to navigate within? Listen to 3 corporate professionals Katarina a.k.a. Kat, Barbara a.k.a. Baruš, Matej a.k.a. Koláč - who share their knowledge and experience.
We publish new episodes every Monday.
You can also watch us on YouTube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCDX7bAJgql8OHCN-qbILv2g
Our LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/company/knowledge-empowers
We publish new episodes every Monday.
You can also watch us on YouTube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCDX7bAJgql8OHCN-qbILv2g
Our LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/company/knowledge-empowers
Corporate Beyond StoriesNov 28, 2022
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21:19
Beyond Stereotypes: Hosting Foreign Colleagues (Business Trips pt.4)
In this episode, we delve into the topic of hosting foreign colleagues on a business trip in your country, using Stereotype content model.
Nov 13, 202337:05
Crossing Borders: Navigating Meetings and Cultures Abroad (Business Trips pt.3)
We delve into the world of meetings and the intricate dynamics of cultural differences on business trips. Join us as we explore the challenges faced by international teams, share personal anecdotes, and offer practical tips for fostering effective collaboration across borders.
Aug 07, 202331:02
First-Class Logistics: Tips for Effortless Business Travel (Business Trips pt.2)
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Jul 24, 202325:45
Taking to the Skies: The Benefits of Business Travel and How to Request a Trip
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Jul 17, 202316:01
Asking for More: How NOT to ask for a pay raise (Salary Raise pt.3)
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Jul 10, 202316:57
Asking for More: The Best Time to Request a Raise (Salary Raise pt.2)
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Jul 03, 202325:08
Beyond the Paycheck: Exploring the Value of Corporate Employee Benefits pt.2 - Podcast
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Jun 26, 202315:40
Navigating Corporate Employee Benefits: Insights from Senior Employees
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Jun 20, 202318:03
The Missing Ingredients in Your Business Justification
A well-written business justification can mean the difference between a project's success and failure. Join us as we explore the key components that should be included in every business justification.
May 22, 202315:24
The Art of Justifying: Navigating the Different Types of Business Justifications
In today's world, making a business case for any significant investment or decision is crucial. In this episode, we will share our experience with the different types of business justification.
May 15, 202312:35
Knowledge Empowers Brand Update
In this podcast episode, we go through the reasons behind changing the name of our podcast from "Knowledge Empowers" to "Corporate Beyond Stories" and what other updates you can look forward to.
May 08, 202304:01
Life scripts: How you predefine your future
Let's set on a path of self-fulfilling prophecies and explore the concept of Life Scripts in Transactional Analysis, a psychoanalytic theory that examines how our early life experiences shape our beliefs and behaviours about ourselves.
Apr 17, 202321:07
Transactional Analysis Pt.2: How to Adult
From Parent-Child dynamics to Adult-Adult interactions, this video will explore how different how the Adult ego states can be used to improve communication and relationships with others, as it enables us to respond to situations in a calm and objective manner.
Mar 27, 202336:04
Transactional Analysis: Unconscious Games We Play
In this podcast episode, we explore the concept of transactional analysis, a theory of personality and communication that examines the interactions between individuals. We discuss the three ego states, transactional patterns, and how understanding these concepts can improve communication and relationships.
Mar 20, 202334:05
3 Fun Facts [week10/2023]
As we enjoy our winter break we provide you with 3 fun facts.
Mar 13, 202309:06
The Purpose Upgrade with Paul Skinner
We've had a lovely discussion with Paul Skinner on the topic of purpose and how to upgrade it.
Listen and/or watch the #podcast episode to find out:
- purpose isn't #northstar and requires an #upgrade from time to time
- yesterday's solutions are today's problems
- how to navigate in the corporate world and their purposes
https://www.purposeupgrade.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-skinner-a73b8921
Mar 06, 202341:54
How we learned languages
In this episode we share what languages we speak and how we got to get to learn them. Towards the end of the episode, Kat recommends few smartphone applications that boost your language learning efficiency.
Feb 27, 202341:43
Ideating in Work - with Jakub Misun
What is ideation and how to conduct one? Our guest, Jakub Misun, share's his work experience in the area of ideation and brainstorming.
Ideation related recommendations:
https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/overview
https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/
https://www.ideou.com/pages/design-thinking
Feb 20, 202340:47
Scrum Master explains: Estimation & Grooming
Why hours are not used for workload estimation in Scrum? Why there are separate meetings involving whole team just to estimate the effort for the upcoming sprint? Jakub, certified Scrum Master will reveal answers all these questions and more.
Book recommendation: The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
Feb 13, 202334:01
Scrum Master talks about Retrospective
What is retrospective and how is it practiced in a Scrum team? Jakub, certified Scrum Master, explains his approach to retrospective meetings and even retrospective practices outside Agile project management.
Feb 06, 202329:08
Life of a Scrum Master
Have you ever been interested in a job of a Scrum Master? Wondered what they do all day or how they look at Agile project management? In this episode we interview one and provide you answers to these and many other questions.
Book recommendation
Great ScrumMaster, The: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)): Sochova, Zuzana: 9780134657110: Amazon.com: Books
Jan 30, 202333:45
Closing Phase in Project Management
So your project is finished. What are the actions that you need to do at the close of project?
https://theconversation.com/ - The world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis coming out of unique collaboration between academics and journalists.
Jan 23, 202326:59
Managing Risks in Project Management pt.2
Let's deep dive on strategies to manage risk in project management, namely: risk acceptance, risk transference, risk avoidance and risk reduction.
Jan 16, 202332:49
Risk Management pt.1
Prevention is better than cure and this is true in Project Management as well. In this episode we discuss how to prepare for risks ahead of you.
Jan 09, 202320:57
Emotional Calibration: Anger with Peter Duro
Impact of us getting angry in our professional life is often damaging. Our guest speaker, Peter, will explain what can we do in work to minimize the impact of this fundamental emotion.
Jaak Panksepp lectures on emotions in animals, humans | Cornell Chronicle
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Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-empowers/id1557801107
Other platforms - https://anchor.fm/knowledgeempowers
Jan 02, 202325:09
Holiday Greetings 2022
Happy Holidays from Knowledge Empowers Podcast Team! Barus shares a holiday related fun fact with you and Kat sends out Christmas greetings in Korean.
Dec 26, 202202:49
Emotional Calibration: Stress & Anxiety with Peter Duro
Have you ever been stressed because you had to give a presentation in front of a larger crowd? Our guest speaker, Peter, will introduce how to calibrate emotions and in this episode we will specifically look at stress and anxiety.
Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
Dec 19, 202229:10
Useful Project Management Practices
There are few practices across different project management methodologies that are widely used in corporations and not only during project management. We talk about three of these: Dot-voting, Retrospective and Mood Marbles.
Book recommendation: Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide: All-in-one Guide for Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) Certificate Assessment Preparation https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Narrative-Exam-Guide-All/dp/1521475466/
Dec 12, 202226:33
Project Management: Essential Terms
Requirements, Product Owners, SLAs and DOUs... Do you know these terms? If you work on a project or about to, you might need learn the meaning of these basic terms.
Dec 05, 202221:52
Business controls
Stand-in's, clean desk policies, disaster plans and separation of duties. What are these and how do business controls influence you as a junior employee?
Nov 28, 202221:19
Preventing Burnout
Stress and anxiety are part of normal workday. But how can you prevent a burnout before it's too late?
Resources:
• Amy Cuddy - Your body language shapes who you are: https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
• Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman Bantam Press (1999) – book
• Jane McGonigal - Resilience: https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life
Nov 21, 202231:20
Is it Burnout: Phases 7-12
Withdrawal or Inner Emptiness are just 2 of 6 later stages of burnout that we talk about this episode.
Nov 14, 202222:48
Is it Burnout: Phases 1-6
How does it look when burnout starts? Denial of Emerging Problems or The compulsion to prove your worth are just couple of the 6 phases we talk about in this episode. Do they sound familiar to you?
Nov 07, 202231:18
Is it Burnout?
We've been hearing a lot about burnout and many people seem to go through it but what is an actual definition of burnout?
Oct 31, 202220:04
Experiencing Hate that Leads to Crime
Kat talks about a criminal event that directly affected her life and how she deals with sadness, hate, anger and frustration.
- An article about the event: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23032146/two-people-dead-after-a-shooting-in-central-bratislava.html
- In case of advice needed we recommend iN Poradna: https://www.inporadna.sk/ who is providing support and social, psychological and legal counselling for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in areas related to their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Oct 24, 202225:37
Emotions: Where do they come from?
We often blame circumstances or even other people when we feel angry, sad, anxious, etc. But what is the true origin of emotions?
Oct 17, 202224:55
Manage emotions: Disgust
It is not often that we connect emotion of disgust with a professional environment. Yet there are definitely places you need to avoid it. Listen to find out more.
Sep 26, 202227:15
7 Types of Stories to use in work - Hero's Journey
How is storytelling used in work and what has Hero's Journey got to do with it?
Sep 19, 202227:28
Storytelling with Bill Baker
The skill of storytelling helps us to translate our thoughts, ideas and experience into stories. Through stories we connect with people around us. Listen to this episode to discover how you can build up your storytelling skills.
Sep 12, 202240:08
Piloting for corporations with David Hecl
Have you ever wondered how it looks #behindthescenes of an airplane corporation? We've interviewed a captain David Hecl to hear his experience. #mluvikvamkapitan
Link to the books:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/sk/book/show/59463560
Local links for SVK: https://knihy.heureka.sk/david-hecl-mluvi-k-vam-kapitan-david-hecl-martin-moravec/#prehlad/
Local links for CZ: https://www.zbozi.cz/vyrobek/david-hecl-mluvi-k-vam-kapitan-david-hecl-martin-moravec-2021-pevna/
Sep 05, 202247:29
Managing emotions: Surprise
Would it surprise you that surprise as an emotion doesn't get much attention in a workplace? No wonder it is often not manged well.
Aug 29, 202223:34
Managing your emotions: Joy
Let's talk about what is joy, where it comes from and how to bring it to work.
Aug 22, 202225:56
Manage Your Emotions: Anger
Is anger good or bad? The answer might surprise you. Listen to our "angry" stories and find out how to manage this emotion.
Aug 15, 202224:03
Manage Your Emotions: Fear
Are you dreading speaking in public or your next interview? No matter what you're afraid of, fear can be a crippling emotion. Let's look at how to handle feelings of fear in daily situations.
Aug 08, 202226:28
Satir Change Model
How would you get the best of out of major changes in your life and work? Virginia Satir thought of this challenge and created a model that was designed to help people improve the way they cope with unexpected change.
Aug 01, 202218:06
Managing Your Manager
To increase your work performance you can build a relationship with your manager. They are not the only ones managing your relationship though. You should be managing your manager as well. But how would you go about it?
Jul 25, 202226:13
Managing Vacation
How to prepare for vacation and what do you need to do after you're back in work?
Jul 18, 202230:59
Meeting Etiquette
Is it acceptable to not to come to meetings? Do you need to respond to each single meeting invitation? What is necessary information that should meeting invitation body hold? We go through these and many other rules of meeting etiquette.
Jul 11, 202234:15
Types of meetings
Did you know there are different types of meetings? Do you know which kinds you attend and what is their purpose?
Jul 04, 202234:57
Active listening
How to make listening active and what are the different stages of moving from passive listening to active one?
Jun 27, 202231:03