Ask Muriel Anything: Listening to Your Team, Leading With Uncertainty, Balancing Empathy and Accountability
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Ask Muriel Anything: Listening to Your Team, Leading With Uncertainty, Balancing Empathy and Accountability

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202641 min

How do I show my team I’m listening when I don’t agree with them? How do I project confidence when I don’t know what the future holds? How do I balance empathy with accountability? How do I influence others when I don’t have formal authority? In this episode, Muriel and communication expert Matt Abrahams, lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and host of Think Fast, Talk Smart, answer listeners’ questions about some of the trickiest communication and leadership challenges. They discuss how to demonstrate that you’re listening...

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Hi friends, this is Muriel Wilkins and this is Ask Muriel Anything from Coaching Reel Leaders. In these episodes, I'm joined by some special guests who I also call friends that will help me field questions that have come in from folks like you who are listening, the Coaching

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Reel Leaders community, or that also come up in my client work. today I am super excited to be joined by Matt Abrahams. He is a lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He hosts an amazing podcast. You might've heard about it.

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I'm sure you have called Think Fast Talk Smart. And he is releasing an updated version of his book, which by the way is one of my favorite books to refer clients to called Think Faster Talk Smarter.

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