823: How to Collaborate Smarter with Dr. Heidi Gardner
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Heidi Gardner reveals when, why, and how to collaborate optimally.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to stop overcommitment and overcollaboration
2) How diversity makes for better collaborations
3) How to overcome the barriers to collaboration
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— ABOUT HEIDI —
Heidi K. Gardner, PhD. is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, and was previously a professor at Harvard Business School and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Named by Thinkers50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, Dr. Gardner is a sought-after advisor, keynote speaker, and facilitator for organizations across a wide range of industries globally. She is the co-founder of the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co. and the author, alongside Ivan A. Matviak, of Smarter Collaboration.
• Book: Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos
• Book: Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work
• Tool: Smarter Collaboration Accelerator
• Website: GardnerAndCo.co
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 823 with Heidi Gardner. |
| 0:22.8 | Heidi has got some pro tips on how you can collaborate all the more effectively and fun |
| 0:27.9 | leads. |
| 0:28.9 | You'll learn one, how to stop over commitment and over collaboration, two, how diversity |
| 0:32.8 | makes for better collaborations, and three, how to overcome common barriers to collaboration. |
| 0:38.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript or the links to items we referenced, |
| 0:41.5 | please pay a visit over at awesometyourjob.com. |
| 0:44.3 | slash ep823 and check out some of our other goodies like transcripts and every episode |
| 0:48.9 | tagged by topic and competency covered, email summaries and more at awesometyourjob.com. |
| 0:54.6 | Now here is Heidi Story. |
| 0:56.4 | Heidi K. Gardner PhD is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and was previously |
| 1:01.4 | a professor at Harvard Business School and a consultant at McKinsey Company, named by |
| 1:04.8 | thinkers 50 as a next generation business guru. |
| 1:07.5 | Dr. Gardner is a sought after advisor, keynote speaker, and facilitator for organizations |
| 1:11.6 | across a wide range of industries globally. |
| 1:14.6 | She is the co-founder of the research and advisory firm Gardner and co and the author alongside |
| 1:19.7 | Ivan A. Matt Viak of Smarter Collaboration. |
| 1:23.4 | Big thanks to Heidi for sharing our wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors, check |
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