Join our hosts and special guest, Stacia Solomon, Director of Duke Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, as they discuss how to identify and affirm the forgotten superpowers in the workplace.
When someone says superpower – what do you think of? What about when it comes to work?
When you think of putting together a team, what are some of the superpowers you MUST have?
What do we do when we don’t see any superpowers in others or even in ourselves?
Transcript:
- Hello and welcome to the What's Career Got to Do With It podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages a listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way.
- On today's episode, we are joined by special guest, Stacia Solomon, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. As we discuss an answer or many to the question, what are some forgotten superpowers in the workplace?
- Hey Stacia.
- Hey y'all. Good morning.
- I appreciate y'all doing that cuz I just jump in. What's up? What are the superpowers?
- Rudi. On ramp, ease into it.
- I'm sorry, I'm bad at greeting people. In person too, I just wave. I'm just like, ert.
- Yeah.
- Just quickly.
- Literally quiet that is your wave.
- I'm working on it. Welcome Stacia. Thank you for joining us today.
- Thank you for having me.
- Of course, of course. We are excited to have our guests today and we are excited to continue to dive into this topic Further Superpowers. We've talked about it in many different capacities in many different ways, and superpowers of course means something different to everybody, but Stacia, superpowers.
- Hmm.
- What are they?
- Superpowers.
- Do you need more parameters here?
- I might, because, you know, you can go a lot of different directions with superpowers.
- So let's see, let's be good hosts this morning and let her know kind of what some people have talked about. So some folks have talked about superpowers, hidden superpowers in the workplace.
- Mm-hmm.
- Folks have talked about superpowers and differentiating them between home and the workplace.
- Hmm.
- Superpowers in, superpowers that may not be realized for people, but they're valued within the workplace.
- Mm-hmm.
- How's that for you?
- That works.
- Okay.
- That helps, that helps.
- You're welcome. $22 please.
- Okay, invoice me. So some of the superpowers I think of are maybe just some of those things that folks don't realize are unique to them. Like it might be your ability to take in large amounts of information and still remember it. Hello, as I'm like approaching a very significant birthday and that is no longer a superpower for me.
- Me too.
- Gotta write it down. Or maybe it's like that knack for people just to be drawn to you, you know, like, hello Rudi, like you just kind of naturally that person. But I think those are some of the things that I think of with superpowers, that it could also be some of those hidden things that maybe we don't consider as assets. Like maybe it's the fact that you come from a big family and that means that you really know how to handle many different personalities all at once and still hold yourself together. I don't think that's something that's brought out as a trait or an asset in a lot of different settings, but that definitely is a superpower cuz that means that when you get into a workplace where all those different personalities, if you allow yourself to kind lean into it, then you can be like, oh, you know what that's like Aunt Mae Mae, she's a little cray cray, I can deal with you.
- Okay, Aunt Mae Mae.
- I do have an Aunt May.
- I don't know her, I don't know her. Okay, listen-
- She's very sweet, but also maybe I don't- No, she's great. She will not listen to this.
- Oh goodness. Okay. So Stacia, I got a question for you.
- Okay.
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