Claire Wasserman
speaker
537 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Claire Wasserman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And seriously, there are very good clues from back in the day when you were just doing things for the sheer joy and pleasure and curiosity of it. OK, but sounds like you're in a pretty good place. So I would think back now. All right. In the last few years. And it could be everything from you really like the experience of.
preparing and delivering a presentation, or you really liked going to this conference or, you know, so they could be moments in time. This doesn't have to be, oh, this project I worked on, right? It could really, you know, or like I liked being on a team. I like this environment or process or these kinds of details are very important. As we say, the sort of devil is in the details here.
So as you're doing this reflection, just write down, there's no wrong answer. The reason I'm having you do this first is these become kind of the foundation upon which you're building the rest of the house. So you know what you want to carry with you, right? We want you to activate these kinds of strengths in this sort of environment. And then as we take the next step of figuring out
people to talk to both internally. Okay. So at the company, but also externally, when you start to explore what's out there, you can now filter it. Ah, if I take this next step, will I be leveraging these talents to the best of my ability? You know, or, Is this skill set I have in this next role, would it be a nice to have?
Like, I remember a friend once said to me when we came home from an event, she said, Claire, you know, your ability to connect with people and to network, you really take it for granted. And not only do you take it for granted, You're not even monetized. You should monetize this.
You should make this a front and center aspect of what you do for a living, both in terms of your role and even companies you look like. And from then on, I only worked for companies that literally the job was to network. The companies themselves were networks, were professional networks. And I was the person marketing and fundraising to help people connect. So I really listened to this one.
I was a friend of mine who said this to me. So that'd be the first step. Second step is what are you curious about? This is all about learning. I like to think about work as if it were school and not school in like a school because I actually really didn't like school that much, but more school of life. Like we are getting our MBA. And it is now our time to write up the curriculum.
What do we want to learn in our MBA? And here's what's kind of awesome is instead of us paying for the MBA, they're paying us, right? Like you were getting paid to go to school. That's how I think of work. Like you were just here to learn. And in learning, you have to deliver. You're doing projects. You've got senior thesis, right? Like you've got teams, you know?
You're getting your, you know, an A plus or not, right? You're We want to build the curriculum. And this is a cliche, but I'm going to say it anyway. You don't know what you don't know. You don't even know what opportunities are out there unless you put yourself out there. Unless you get exposure somehow to something or somebody who's simply interesting to you. And let yourself be open-minded.
Let yourself be curious. And if there's, let's say, a person at your company, you just kind of admire them. Like they've either risen up in the ranks or they totally pivoted or came from a different background or feel similar to you. There's somebody. Start there, especially a person who has changed or has done any kind of path that looks somewhat similar to you or something you admire.
I would love to hear from them how they did it. And then I want to hear more about their job, right? What do they do and what do they not like about what they do? What skills and strengths and expertises do they really leverage in that job?
Gathering this kind of information will help you, A, make a better decision about what your next move will be, and B, how to make a compelling case that you are indeed ready for this. Or C, you'll discover, actually, I want this. I'm not ready for it. Okay, now we can make a plan for how to get ready for it. Based off of all that, tell me what you're thinking, what you're feeling.
Yeah. But I think you bring up a very valid and important point, which is people are busy and we don't want to bother them. So I want to actually work backwards from that for a second. When you reach out to somebody who I'll just say has influence, right? or somebody you want something from, and you're like, oh, I know they're busy or whatever.
Well, first of all, before you reach out, think about, is there anything that you can do for them? Now, in your case, it's a little bit different because it sounds like you already are just sort of a helpful person to her anyway, and you have somewhat of a relationship, right? So this is maybe a different use case than a person who wants to reach out to somebody they've never met before, right?
But- One way to help another person is this is going to be a totally random idea I'm throwing out there. It may not apply to you, but hopefully it inspires you to start thinking creatively about how to connect with people of influence. Can you recommend them for a conference or a podcast if you feel like that's something that would make sense for them, right?
For example, if anyone wants to reach out to me, and is like, hey, I could connect you with this conference. I think you'd be a great speaker. I mean, that might be money in my pocket. And it didn't take you more than like five minutes potentially to do that. I mean, of course, there's like an etiquette to making kinds of connections, et cetera.
But that's you bringing value in a way that doesn't take much time and effort, but has a big positive impact on the other person. So just before anybody reaches out to anyone else, just think, is there something I could do for them? Or it could be as simple as they post it on LinkedIn, you reshare it or you comment. So I don't want anyone saying, let me volunteer and work for this person for free.
We don't have to do anything big to have a positive impact on another person. So think about that. Second, when you ask her to connect with you, I want you to give her a time frame. Say, I'd love 15 minutes of your time. I have 20 minutes of your time. You're probably going to speak for much longer. But when you give people that short time, Period.
They can now visualize how it will fit into their schedule and they're much more likely to say yes. You also want to have very specific questions prepared. By the way, you could say, hey, I'm happy to send you my questions beforehand if that would be helpful. I know your time is really valuable.
By the way, Jay, you may be listening to me going, this sounds way more formal than I need to be with this person. Totally. Do whatever makes sense for the dynamic that you have. I just want to always say what I feel like kind of the framework that would be the correct etiquette in all of this, but tailor it for your situation, of course.
Showing 141–160 of 537 · page 8 of 27
← Previous
Next →