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 Makaitas.

Hello and welcome to episode 912, Kristen Ferguson.

Kristen has some excellent perspective on how to lead well in modern times, blending both Ed and Heart,

to have great results and impact and connection with your team.

See, older and one, why traditional leadership is lacking and what you should do instead.

Two, why you may not be as self-aware as you think.

And three, why you might want to talk less in your next meeting.

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

please drop on by awesome at your job.coms.ep912.

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which gives you summary of wisdom and insight from each gas as the episode comes out.

And then it locks the whole archive of 912 of these summaries, because those the Goldnuggets over at awesome at your job.com.

Now here's a bit about Kristen. Dr. Kirsten Ferguson, PhD, is an award-winning leadership expert, best-selling author, columnist and keynote speaker.

Kirsten has been called Australia's own Brunei Brown and has been named one of the world's top 30 thinkers watch by thinkers 50.

Her latest book, Head and Heart, the art of modern leadership has been named one of the top 10 best new management books in the world in 2023.

Now here's Kristen.

Kirsten, welcome to how to be awesome at your job.

A lot of the fabulous to be here.

Well, I'm excited to hear about some of the wisdom you have for us from your book, Head and Heart, the art of modern leadership.

But first, I need to hear a little bit about your time with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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