Karin & David’s Leadership Articles
How to Handle Accountability Conversations: 6 Tough Questions, Answered
Because Clear, Constructive Feedback Shouldn’t Feel Like a Wrestling Match You want your team to succeed—and you want them to grow. And you know...
4 Critical Communication Skills for Managing Up with Style and Grace
Managing up well will build your influence, reduce stress, and improve your team’s performance. “How do I change my boss?” This is one of the...
How to Disagree with Your Boss Without Derailing Your Career
Your Ability to Disagree with Your Boss Constructively is a Game-Changing Leadership Skill Ever faced one of those moments when your boss rolls...
The Collaboration Checklist for Leaders: Five Questions to Guide Better Decisions
This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. But in the rush to deliver, it’s...
More Than a Chat: How to Make Your Career Conversations Count
This Practical Planner Could Change Your Career Conversations Let’s talk career converations—and how to get the support you need to make them...
Left Out of the Loop? Here’s How to Step Back In with Confidence
When You're the Stakeholder AND Out of the Loop You’re reading the latest executive update when it hits you: you’ve been left out of the...
David Dye’s Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast
How Great Leaders Escalate Accountability to Get Everyone the Feedback They Need
What do great leaders do when a team member says they'll change… but nothing changes? You’ve had the first accountability talk. Maybe even a...
The Four Accountability Feedback Skills Every Leader Must Master
Episode 303: Are your accountability feedback conversations falling flat—or worse, backfiring—because you're not sure what to say? If you’ve ever...
1 Incredible Leadership Skill to Improve Productivity and Manage Work-Life Balance
Tired of vague deadlines and Groundhog Day conversations that wreck your productivity—and your work-life balance? If you’re a leader trying to...

Karin Hurt’s ASKING FOR A FRIEND VLOG
Help! Workplace Distractions Stole My Zen (and Left a Trail of Bananas)
You Scheduled Time to Focus: Workplace Distractions Laughed and Brought Snacks You cared out the time, turned off your notifications to remove...
New Job, Fast Lane: How Not to Get Run Over in Your New Role
Navigating Workplace Culture as a New Hire You’re excited about your new job. You want to make an impact. And yet—it’s coming at you from all...
My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend
Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They're the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy...