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.

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

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode

406.

We got Brenda Bailey Hughes back,

and this time we're talking listening.

So you'll learn, one, the sad current state of listening.

Two, how to fall in love with silence in a conversation.

And three, the five focus areas of listening

so if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

items we've referenced it's over to awesome at your job dot com slash at

F four zero six now here's Brenda story been to Baye the Hughes Teachers Communication and Leadership

Skills at the Kelly School of Business undergrad program at Indiana University.

She also teaches global leadership in emerging markets for Kelly Direct, the Working Professionals MBA program.

She's authored 9 LinkedIn Learning Courses and specializes in communication training and coaching

for Fortune 500 executives such as Procter and Gamble, Samsung, Cummins, and John Deere.

So thanks to Brenda for sharing some time with us and thanks to our sponsors.

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Now, here's Brenda.

Brenda, welcome back to the How to be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

Thank you Pete, thanks for having me back.

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