brilliant jerk

In Episode 9 of Don't Work With Tossers - The Podcast, Phil Fraser, a Business Sounding Board,  talks to host Tina Boden about how to identify people around you who are not a Tosser but a Brilliant Jerk.

Phil shares his 10 tips for identifying a Brilliant Jerk, some of them fit in Tina's top Tosser traits apparently! Phil and Tina chat about how both Brilliant Jerks and Tossers can have a negative impact on workplace culture and the importance of 'grasping the nettle' and taking action to deal with a Briliant Jerk to help a business, the business owner and the people that work in that business. Tina talks to Phil about how we often look at someone's CV rather than the personality of an individual, a process that does not always see the best person being recruited for the job.

Phil Fraser went from an accidental kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He has travelled the full SME business journey. During that journey he won many awards, appeared numerous times online and in print and even set up an annual industry report and awards ceremony.

Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach and Business Mentor). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Owners helping them to be better at what they do. Phil’s mantra is 'It doesn’t need to be lonely at the top’. He helps Business Owners to be better business owners, by helping with their clarity and focus.

Host of his own podcast, Leeds Business Podcast,  Phil has appeared on over 60 podcasts, webinars and interviews, from around the whole globe, talking on a variety of business subjects. He is a regular contributor to the ‘Voices’ section of The Yorkshire Post, is an active Angel Investor and has also been a volunteer mentor with a number of organisations including The Prince’s Trust and Young Enterprise and speaks regularly at Leeds schools to pupils about careers.

Want to know more about Phil Fraser ? Follow this link https://www.linkedin.com/in/philfraser/

Thanks for listening to Don't Work With Tossers - The Podcast.

For more business tips and life lessons to help you rid yourself of the Tossers around you visit - https://dontworkwithtossers.com

To find out more about podcast host Tina Boden and how to work with her to improve your work life blend visit - https://worklifeblendcoach.com/about-tina/

It has been far too many month since I have posted an episode. There has been a huge amount going on in my life above and beyond all the changes the COVID pandemic has caused. Like many autistics I can easily get overstimulated and drained in the course of a normal day. Between COVID and joining Google through an acquisition and the changes it brings I get overstimulated and drained by the end of the work day. Unfortunately it leaves me fried for the day and no personal work happens that evening. Weekends have been mostly dedicated to hiding from the computer and trying to avoid anything that is draining. So nothing happens on weekends either other than Tim going over the top on his special interest as is his norm.

Hoping this will be the first step in getting back to at least an episode every two weeks. We will see how fast I can get to this goal.

Thanks for listening and please share with a friend who could benefit.

This is the third and final segment of a good long chat Dr Dave and I had.

Dr Dave has a unique perspective on Autism in the Workplace. Dr Dave, like myself, was not diagnosed until later in adult life. This gave him the aspie experience of lots of jobs and careers and how thinking differently is frequently not accepted. Dr Dave is also the parent of autistic children, giving him hands on experience with the childhood side of autism. Finally, Dr Dave is the Executive Director of Vanderbilt's Frist Center on Autism and Innovations, where he gets to talk with people on all side of the employment challenge.

The Frist Center is a multi-discipline approach with a mission of: Engineering technologies and transforming the workplace – inspired by neurodiversity, at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering brings engineers, business scholars, and disabilities researchers together with experts in neuroscience and education to understand, maximize, and promote neurodiverse talent.

Details to reach the Frist Center or Dr Dave directly.
Vanderbilt's Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
Dr Dave: david.d.caudel@vanderbilt.edu

This is the second segment of a good long chat Dr Dave and I had.

Dr Dave has a unique perspective on Autism in the Workplace. Dr Dave, like myself, was not diagnosed until later in adult life. This gave him the aspie experience of lots of jobs and careers and how thinking differently is frequently not accepted. Dr Dave is also the parent of autistic children, giving him hands on experience with the childhood side of autism. Finally, Dr Dave is the Executive Director of Vanderbilt's Frist Center on Autism and Innovations, where he gets to talk with people on all side of the employment challenge.

The Frist Center is a multi-discipline approach with a mission of: Engineering technologies and transforming the workplace – inspired by neurodiversity, at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering brings engineers, business scholars, and disabilities researchers together with experts in neuroscience and education to understand, maximize, and promote neurodiverse talent.

Details to reach the Frist Center or Dr Dave directly.
Vanderbilt's Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
Dr Dave: david.d.caudel@vanderbilt.edu

Dr Dave has a unique perspective on Autism in the Workplace. Dr Dave, like myself, was not diagnosed until later in adult life. This gave him the aspie experience of lots of jobs and careers and how thinking differently is frequently not accepted. Dr Dave is also the parent of autistic children, giving him hands on experience with the childhood side of autism. Finally, Dr Dave is the Executive Director of Vanderbilt's Frist Center on Autism and Innovations, where he gets to talk with people on all side of the employment challenge.

The Frist Center is a multi-discipline approach with a mission of: Engineering technologies and transforming the workplace – inspired by neurodiversity, at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering brings engineers, business scholars, and disabilities researchers together with experts in neuroscience and education to understand, maximize, and promote neurodiverse talent.

Details to reach the Frist Center or Dr Dave directly.
Vanderbilt's Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
Dr Dave: david.d.caudel@vanderbilt.edu

For the third year in a row I was invited to guest lecture a class at Cornell University. My topic was challenges autistic people face in interviews. It is such a rich topic, unfortunately for many on the spectrum a job interview is a way to decide you "are not a good fit" which in the USA is HR speak for, your not like us and it makes us uncomfortable so we will illegally discount you from consideration, but give a totally safe non-descriptive answer.

You can download the presentation deck that goes with this talk here:
Presentation Deck, Tim presents at Cornell Oct 2019

For free resources and to learn more visit me at TimGoldstein.com
As always, if you know someone who you think Tim should interview please let us know. Also love to hear your comments, suggestions, and great ideas. Email us at podcast@TimGoldstein.com

Chris Turner is a consultant in Australia that helps companies to become more diverse by adding neurodiverse staff. His slogan is "Neurodiversity Inclusion Made Simple". While Chris deals with all humans regardless of where in the Neuro Cloud™ they fall.

This episode and 2 more came from a catch up call we had scheduled. I had just gotten a cool podcast recorder I was itching to use. Chris agreed to recording us and I edited the recording to create 3 great podcasts. This is the final segment.

You can find out more about Chris and his state of the art concepts and approaches check out his site at: ProjectEnterpriseCoaching.com

For free resources and to learn more visit me at TimGoldstein.com
As always, if you know someone who you think Tim should interview please let us know. Also love to hear your comments, suggestions, and great ideas. Email us at podcast@TimGoldstein.com

Shelly and I had such a good time chatting we kept the recorder running and produced Shelly Dival continued.

Like many of us that grew up on farms, Shelly has a huge range of skills and has had a number of careers. In her now long running career as a building designer. In Australia architect has a specific meaning, but in the USA we would probably call her an architect.

When her grandson was diagnosed with autism Shelly jumped in to learn all she could about it and how to apply her skill as a building designer to create better spaces for the autistic and others of the neurodiverse bend. As the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship Shelly was able to travel the world to learn what is being done in other countries to create living spaces for the autistic. This has given her an amazing understanding of the various approached and techniques used to create just the right environment for comfort and usability.

You can learn more about Shelly, her design philosophy, and download her summary report of all the things she learned about different designs and approaches at her website https://enablingspaces.com.au
Email: shelly.dival@enablingspaces.com.au
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shellydival
Facebook: @autismfriendly
Phone: +61 0433 510 416

Like many of us that grew up on farms, Shelly has a huge range of skills and has had a number of careers. In her now long running career as a building designer. In Australia architect has a specific meaning, but in the USA we would probably call her an architect.

When her grandson was diagnosed with autism Shelly jumped in to learn all she could about it and how to apply her skill as a building designer to create better spaces for the autistic and others of the neurodiverse bend. As the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship Shelly was able to travel the world to learn what is being done in other countries to create living spaces for the autistic. This has given her an amazing understanding of the various approached and techniques used to create just the right environment for comfort and usability.

You can learn more about Shelly, her design philosophy, and download her summary report of all the things she learned about different designs and approaches at her website https://enablingspaces.com.au
Email: shelly.dival@enablingspaces.com.au
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shellydival
Facebook: @autismfriendly
Phone: +61 0433 510 416

Chris Turner is a consultant in Australia that helps companies to become more diverse by adding neurodiverse staff. His slogan is "Neurodiversity Inclusion Made Simple". While Chris deals with all humans regardless of where in the Neuro Cloud™ they fall.

This episode and 2 more came from a catch up call we had scheduled. I had just gotten a cool podcast recorder I was itching to use. Chris agreed to recording us and I edited the recording to create 3 great podcasts. This is the first.

You can find out more about Chris and his state of the art concepts and approaches check out his site at: ProjectEnterpriseCoaching.com

For free resources and to learn more visit me at TimGoldstein.com
As always, if you know someone who you think Tim should interview please let us know. Also love to hear your comments, suggestions, and great ideas. Email us at podcast@TimGoldstein.com

Chris Turner is a consultant in Australia that helps companies to become more diverse by adding neurodiverse staff. His slogan is "Neurodiversity Inclusion Made Simple". While Chris deals with all humans regardless of where in the Neuro Cloud™ they fall.

This episode and 2 more came from a catch up call we had scheduled. I had just gotten a cool podcast recorder I was itching to use. Chris agreed to recording us and I edited the recording to create 3 great podcasts. This is the second.

You can find out more about Chris and his state of the art concepts and approaches check out his site at: ProjectEnterpriseCoaching.com

For free resources and to learn more visit me at TimGoldstein.com
As always, if you know someone who you think Tim should interview please let us know. Also love to hear your comments, suggestions, and great ideas. Email us at podcast@TimGoldstein.com