March 21, 2023
Episode 33: Following A Spark and Owning Your Career with Google’s Jenny Wood
Taking risks, being vulnerable, and seeking help are often the initial actions required to pursue your aspirations. In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld discusses taking charge of your career with Jenny Wood, the founder of Google’s Own Your Career Program. Dane and Jenny discuss the idea that working in teams provides a fresh opportunity to transform oneself, how to establish psychological safety in collaborative settings, and acknowledge that development and advancement can stem from sources other than the upper echelons of an organization.
Guest Bio
Jenny Wood is an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens of billions of revenue per year. She is also the founder of Own Your Career, one of the largest career development programs in Google’s history with tens of thousands of people benefitting.
Recap & Takeaways
- Jenny Wood and the Own Your Career program she founded at Google
- Going after what you want, and psychological safety
- How Jenny’s Own Your Career program creates frameworks for safety and team building
- Open dialogue and the power of addressing awkward conversations early
- How growth opportunities flow at Google from Jenny’s Own Your Career program
- Working in teams is a chance to reinvent yourself each time
- The opportunity to own your past and reinvention
- Setting agendas with leadership and your manager’s manager
- Leaders who invite conversations, availability, and collaboration
- Progress and leadership beyond the organizational chart
- Learning to ask for help is vital to building relationships
- Where technology plays a part of the team and helps people elevate their careers
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