Why “High Agency” Might Be the Secret to Growing Your Career
In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss what having high agency at work really means, the problems having high agency poses in certain contexts, and how to cultivate more of it in order to help your career.
00:00 Intro
01:20 Defining what having “high agency” is
06:52 The elements of high agency
10:34 An important point about having agency
14:17 An important element of truly effective high agency
15:03 A time when Kaila demonstrated high agency in her career
17:46 A time when Kyle demonstrated high agency in his career
21:32 A debate on the merits of disagreeableness
30:22 Research on the “internal locus of control”
31:43 Tactics for developing more agency
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