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7 Ways to Deal with Employees Who Drive You Crazy

by Karin Hurt | Dec 10, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication, Employee Engagement & Energy | 11 comments

If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing...

How to Deal With REALLY Difficult People at Work

by Karin Hurt | Dec 8, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 14 comments

Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. “Oh, boy do I need to take that class.” Or, “Why didn’t they have that when I was in...

Better Executive Presentations: Avoid These Big Mistakes

by Karin Hurt | Dec 5, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 16 comments

Executive Presentations: Don’t Forget to Ask For What You Need You’re preparing for your next executive presentation, and you know it’s going to be a doozy. Perhaps the leader you’re presenting to has a track record of impatient questions or...

How Leadership Development is Hurting Your Career

by Karin Hurt | Dec 3, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 12 comments

“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and...

How to Give a Motivational "Locker Room" Speech

by Karin Hurt | Dec 1, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Communication, Employee Engagement & Energy | 8 comments

The band had traveled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It...

What Is Gratitude?

by Karin Hurt | Nov 26, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt | 15 comments

True gratitude begins wtih deep humility. True gratitude changes us. True gratitude transforms our relationships. True gratitude changes the game. Courtesies Aren’t Gratitude And yet, as leaders, we spend much time on “Thanks for passing the gravy” kind of...