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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

305: Screwing Up Masterfully with Kristen Hadeed

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Student Maid’s Kristen Hadeed shares her numerous leadership mistakes, how to learn fast, and inspire employees so much they clean toilets with a smile.   You'll Learn: When and how to deliver critical feedback The detrimental effects of praise The power of vulnerability to grow an inspired workforce   About Kristen: Kristen is the Founder and CEO of Student Maid, a student-powered cleaning company in Florida. She helps organizations make a lasting, meaningful impact on people by creating environments in which they thrive. Her first book, “Permission To Screw Up,” tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership. She hopes to inspire other leaders to share their “perfectly imperfect” stories of success to empower people with the knowledge that even if they screw up, they can still make it. Kristen and Student Maid have been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX Inc., NBC, TIME and Forbes. Her first TED Talk has received nearly three million hits on YouTube.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep305 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McChitis.

0:16.3

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode

0:21.4

three hundred five with Kristen Hadid.

0:23.5

I think you really enjoyed this conversation because Kristen is just so open and honest about

0:28.6

her mistakes and how she learned from them.

0:31.0

It's endearing and powerful and just so much good stuff.

0:33.4

So you'll learn one, when and how to deliver critical feedback,

0:37.2

two, the detrimental effects of praise, and three, the power of vulnerability

0:41.8

to grow an inspired workforce.

0:44.0

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced,

0:48.0

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash F-305.

0:52.0

Now here is Kristen's story.

0:54.0

Kristen Hadid is the founder and CEO of Student Made, a student-powered cleaning company in Florida.

0:59.0

She helps organizations make a lasting meaningful impact on people by creating environments in which they thrive.

1:04.2

Her first book, Permission to Screw Up, tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership.

1:08.5

She hopes to inspire other leaders to share their perfectly imperfect stories of success. To empower people with the knowledge that even if

1:14.8

they screw up they can still make it.

1:17.0

Kristen and student made have been featured in news outlets including PBS, Fox Inc, NBC,

1:21.5

time, and Forbes. Her first TED Talk has received nearly 3 million views on YouTube.

1:25.6

So thanks to Kristen for sharing some time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.

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