Ep 82 - Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach - Mastering Office Politics: 3 Strategies to Survive and Thrive at Work

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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If you have a hard time dealing with “office politics,” listen in. In this episode of 97% Effective, Michael Wenderoth shares three practical ways to help you reframe office politics, an area you must manage to survive and thrive in corporate life. We listen to how Camiel Gielkens, CEO at Relevance, learned from getting burned early in his career; how Executive Coach Raquel Gonzalez helps bright, rationale people navigate “arbitary social norms”; and how Keshav Pitani, VP at Light & Wonder, drew inspiration from game developers to overcome his aversion to office politics. We end with a bonus exercise to help you see office politics in a more positive light.

• The key to unlocking career success: reframing how you see and approach office politics
• Why are office politics unavoidable – and so important to navigate?
• A CEO’s insight: Tough lessons learned from ignoring office politics early in one’s career
• Office politics defined: “the mechanism by which conflicts get resolved”
• Reframe #1: “See office politics as an engineering problem”
• How to build abitrary social norms into your operating model
• Reframe #2: “Think like a game developer”
• What do you need to engage someone on your critical path?
• Managing office politics got this VP promoted, but more importantly it enabled his more important goal: elevate and better help his team flourish
• Reframe #3: Change the wording
• The two-column exercise that will make you playful, curious – and see office politics in a more positive light

 

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

 

• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• NEW: 97% Effective, now on Youtube! https://tinyurl.com/bdz53mc5
• Camiel Gielkens, CEO of Relevance, on 97% Effective: “How Power Amplifies Your Impact” https://tinyurl.com/27wfjs7z
• Research study: “How important are political skills for career success? A systematic review and mete-analysis” https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.1949626
• Raquel Gonzalez-Dalmau, Executive Educator and Coach, on 97% Effective: “Office Politics as an Engineering Problem” https://tinyurl.com/nhcyjzm9
• Keshav Pitani, VP of Light & Wonder, on 97% Effective: Overcoming Your Aversion to Office Politics” https://tinyurl.com/3mjxvbws
• Reframe #3: Exercise available on Michael’s website https://changwenderoth.com/audiobook-resources/
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://changwenderoth.com/#tve-jump-180481ecea3
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/

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