3rd Year - 361: Communicating In the Language of Leadership with Chris Westfall
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Hello and welcome back. We are celebrating 10 years of How to Be Awesome at Your Job by highlighting a super fantastical episode that listeners still come back to again and again right now in 2026. So I will now highlight an episode from our third year, episode 361, communicating in the language of leadership with Chris Westfall. I met Chris in person and he is a powerhouse and his insights are timeless and true or truer today than they were when he shared them in October of 2018.
And particularly, I have noticed his insight that we listen with different goals in mind and the leaders listen with the intention of learning something new. I've been in a number of meetings with super impressive multimillion dollar folks who've led organizations and done awesome things and they are listening intently to little old me and others as though we are the experts, and we are in the context in which we're engaged in that meeting, and they're listening with the intention to learn something new, not to disprove, not to impress, but genuinely to learn something new. And you can tell that that's been a key enabler of their success. So please join me for this representation of episode 361 with Chris Westfall.
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. Chris has got so much good stuff to share, and this time he's talking about the language of leadership. So you'll learn one the three ways that people listen to each other, two, Two, euphrases that will help you get what you want, and three, the thought that makes the impossible possible.
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