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?
Forgotten superpowers of the workplace are often unspoken, sometimes forgotten, but never undervalued components of any flourishing team. They come in many different forms - from nontraditional skills to an endless supply of charisma. These superpowers can be found in anyone at your place of work but are most often found in the people that seem to make the workplace tick. From leaders to those who prefer to stay behind the scenes, we want to highlight these essential skills that make any workplace, a better place.

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, Marcus Shaw, Administrative Assistant, Operations and Logistics Manager for the Duke Career Center, or as Kay says, "the man with a plan."

- Man with a plan.

- Woot woot! As we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, What are some forgotten superpowers of the workplace? Yeah, and Nicole , thank you for sounding so cheerful.

- I just flip it on.

- You're welcome message.

- Joy to the world.

- I mean, I got the Christmas cup, I had to, on October 19th.

- I love it.

- All right, so we're gonna hop right in. I'm gonna start with Kay.

- I mean, can we do, "Hey, welcome, Marcus! "We're so happy that you're here." We are so happy that you're here, operations and logistics manager.

- Oh, it's gonna be a ride, folks, this morning, enjoy, buckle up.

- Yeah, Marcus, if you don't mind introducing yourself beyond just this title that we've got here. I think there's so much more to that and to people beyond just the title that carries, so if you don't mind sharing a little bit about who you are and, yeah.

- Well, the operations and logistics manager for the Career Center. I'm coming here after 23 years in the Marine Corps. So I started back in Duke in 2015. Again, I did a brief stint at a warehouse prior to coming to Duke, but then prior to coming to Duke, again, 23 years in Marine Corps, retired, so that's makes me retired almost 10 years now, or a little over 10 years. There's not really too much to say about me. Nothing in particular, I guess, it's just the way I look at it.

- I just want to tell y'all, Marcus is lying. There is so much more to Marcus Shaw within this office, but I'm gonna let him finish pretending like he's not more than he is and then we'll bust open that.

- Exactly.

- I mean, at least that's how I see it. I just come in. I'm just happy to help where I can. Provide little tidbits of wisdom where I can, I guess. Again, I really don't think too much about, it's not that deep, I guess, you know? I just come in and happy to serve, I guess, I don't know.

- I love that, and there's so many different encounters and so he does say, "provide a bit of wisdom." There's so many different encounters with Marcus in our office though that will just catch you off guard, 'cause you'll be like, "Man, that was good, that was good stuff." The other day he walked up, and I have the pleasure of having my office right next to Greg, who Marcus regularly goes and converses with, so I always overhear a thing or two. And I don't know if you knew I was gonna bring this up, Marcus, but you were talking about your experience and some acronyms that you use in the military. I think this captures it perfectly, and I'm not gonna spell out the acronym, because I don't want the FCC to give us a violation, not that they listen to this or do they? But the acronym itself is FITFO, so figure it out. Yes.

- They grown, they don't say it.