Confident Humility Archives

Build Smarter Teams: 3 Ways to Help Your Team Get 10% Smarter

by Karin Hurt | Jan 30, 2015 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication, Confident Humility | 11 comments

Your team is smarter than they look. I promise. If they’re not learning as fast as you would like, stop and consider. What if it’s not them– but you? Here are three ways to make your team 10% smarter. 1. Stop Interrupting I didn’t get this...

Are You Letting Your Team Outgrow Their Past?

by Karin Hurt | Jan 28, 2015 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication, Confident Humility | 10 comments

Most leaders mature (and yes, that’s me on the right). And yet, often when someone has been with the company for a long time, it’s their old image that sticks. Be sure you’re helping your team outgrow their past. I’ve seen too many companies go...

Outsmart the Competition: One Secret to Better Brand Positioning

by Karin Hurt | Jan 21, 2015 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication, Confident Humility, Employee Engagement & Energy | 10 comments

The hard sell is so old school. Your customers and employees have become conditioned to respond to any hard sell with a Google search to find out if what you’re saying is too good to be true. The minute the Google-search has begun, you’ve missed the...

What To Do When Results are in the Toilet

by Karin Hurt | Jan 19, 2015 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Confident Humility, Results & Execution | 8 comments

I’d much rather take over a team with results in the toilet than one executing on all cylinders. Sure they’ll be some long days and sleepless nights, but there’s nothing better than the electric feeling your team experiences when they accomplished...

Leaders Share about Confidence: A Frontline Festival

by Karin Hurt | Jan 16, 2015 | By Karin Hurt, Confident Humility, Frontline Festival | 4 comments

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our January Festival is all about Confidence. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about Humility. New contributors...

How To Bring Out the Best In People

by Karin Hurt | Jan 12, 2015 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Communication, Confident Humility | 21 comments

The story he shared in a recent workshop I led stopped my heart. We were talking about leadership and “bringing out the best in people,” when John (obviously not his real name) confided, “I’ve never seen anyone do what you’re talking...