How have you adapted your leadership style in the past?

How would you adapt your leadership style when faced with the opportunity to take on a senior leadership role in a new department with 20X the number of employees to lead? Listen in as Martin Hehir, the Deputy Secretary, and Chief Operating Officer for the Governance and Corporate Group within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, explains how, in his earlier career, when taking the step into senior leadership roles, he adapted part of his style in terms of how he communicated, thought about the work itself and engaged. Martin talks about the importance of keeping part of his style so that he felt he wasn’t entirely out of his comfort zone but that stretching in new ways and experiencing a degree of discomfort was worth it for the results achieved.

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