Human-Centered Leadership Development Video Series

Reinforce Your Leadership Influence and Impact—One Micro-Lesson at a Time

Continue your team’s leadership journey with the Let’s Grow Leaders Human-Centered Leadership Development Video Series. Whether you’re looking to review key concepts, orient new managers before your next leadership development cohort begins, or empower your team to share the learning, this bite-sized video series provides practical tools and actionable insights to cascade the practical tools and common vocabulary throughout your organization.

From clarifying priorities with the M.I.T. Mindset to holding accountability conversations, these lessons are designed for maximum impact in minimal time.

With actionable tips and memorable frameworks, managers and teams can confidently tackle their most critical challenges—together.

Empower your team. Embed the habits. Make your training stick.

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Leadership Development Video Series

Here are a few of our core video series available to license in your LMS now.  We can also work to produce a leadership development video series for your organization.

Contact us to learn more.

M.I.T. Mindset Introduction

You only have so much time. So does everyone else. So how do you ensure that you’re doing what matters most? How can you be sure you’re not just busy – but accomplishing what matters most?

M.I.T. Mindset (part 2)

As you think about your MITs, you probably began to realize that there are different levels of priorities. In fact, there are four levels of priorities and to be effective, you want to be aware of and focus on each of them in turn.

Check for Understanding

Have you ever had one of those times where you were positive you understood someone, but then realized, you weren’t clear at all? How much frustration, wasted time, and energy could you avoid if you could just make sure you understand one another?

5 x 5 Communication

How do you ensure your team knows what matters most? You might have clarified what matters most and hopefully you’ve connected it to a meaningful reason “why.” But that’s not enough to ensure your team has truly internalized those key messages.

Strategic Empowerment: Building Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills

Some of the most important problems you and your team will solve don’t have easy answers that you can look up with search or AI. And you can’t always go to your manager and give them the problem to solve, either. Your ability to think critically and solve meaningful problems with your colleagues is vital to your success and your career. So how can you improve you and your team’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills?

How to Say No at Work and Handle Overwhelm

It’s never easy to say no at work. After all, you want to be helpful, responsive, and a team player. But learning how to say no and handle overwhelm is a critical skill that will help give you the ability to do the work that matters most, make the most meaningful contribution manage your quality of life.

Land in the AND

 Do you ever feel like you’re pulled in two directions? One side pulls you towards your tasks and all the work you need to do. The other direction pulls you to build relationships and connection with your coworkers and everyone you need to work with to get anything done.

Or maybe you’ve been told you need to show up with more confidence? Or that you need to admit mistakes. How do you balance all of this?

Building Trust: Deeper Conversations

Do you dread small talk? Does the idea of asking “How was your weekend?” make you cringe? We get it. You don’t have a lot of extra time for long conversations. But here’s the thing. People are more likely to help you when they feel seen by you—as a person—not just for what they can DO for you. Lots of research shows that connection is vital for trust.  And trust leads to better collaboration and results.  In other words, connection makes work, work better. So how can you connect more deeply with your coworkers, especially if that doesn’t come as easily for you?

Powerful Phrases for Better Collaboration

Conflict – what happens in your body when you heard the word? Do you tense up? Feel it in your gut? Get ready for a fight? Or do you worry about damaging relationships? The truth is that most people don’t like conflict and as a result, we’re not very good at it. And yet, conflict doesn’t have to be destructive. Conflict at work can be a vital, effective part of collaboration, innovation, and building a better future together with your team and colleagues. 

How to De-Escalate an Emotional Conversation

When people are fired up, angry, and defensive, it’s tough to have a conversation and resolve conflict. One of the reasons conflict is so difficult for so many people is that when these emotions kick in, they’re contagious. One person gets defensive and the other person responds in kind. “Why are you getting angry? Can’t you see how right I am? What’s wrong with you?”

This cycle escalates until someone storms off, shuts down, or commits one of those “career limiting activities.” Nothing is ever resolved. Frustrations and resentments build up and poison the work. But, if you can learn how to de-escalate these conflict conversations, you’ll give yourself and your coworkers the gift of a path forward.

Prepare for a Career Development Conversation with Your Manager

As you build your career, your manager can be an incredible resource. They can help you get the skills you need, build relationships, and connect with opportunities. So how can you help your manager to help you? 

Build Your Network of Strategic Partnerships

Do you have a best friend at work? Do you have co-workers who challenge you to get better? Who’s your technical go-to when you’re feeling stuck or need to learn something new?

How to Build Your Professional Brand

Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing how you show up at work. What would it say? What’s your professional brand? How  others would describe you in a sentence or two. Would your professional brand include any “buts”?

“She’s smart, BUT she doesn’t follow-through.”

“He’s the best sales guy we have BUT he’s a complete jerk with his internal partners.”

“They meet their commitments, but I wish they were better at problem solving.

“She has great ideas, BUT doesn’t always execute.”

When you’re managing your professional brand, the “buts” matter – and you can you build a better brand to address these perceptions.

Courageous Questions

Imagine if you and every member of your team consistently showed up for one another to make things better – better for your team, better for your customer, better for results. What would that mean? How much more would enjoy your work and what you achieve together?

How to Get Your Manager Excited About Your I.D.E.A.

You’ve got a great idea you just know will improve the business. How do you get your boss excited? Okay, let’s be real, not just excited, but as excited as you are?

How to Get the Feedback You Need (DIY 360)

How do you get the feedback you need to be your best? Hopefully, your manager is giving you regular, helpful feedback, as well as summarizing that with practical next steps in your 4x4s. But what if you need more? Or need feedback from more people?

Schedule the Finish

Do you ever get frustrated because a coworker, or even your boss didn’t do something when you thought they should get it done? Or, have you ever had someone frustrated with you because you took too long to get something done?

Accountability Conversations-I.N.S.P.I.R.E. Method

“Why won’t anybody follow through and do what they say they’ll do?”

If you or your teammates are asking this question, you’re headed for conflict. But, when you look at high-performing teams, one common characteristic is that accountability isn’t just the manager’s job – the team holds one another accountable (and their manager too).

How to Deliver Bad News (D.A.R.N.)

Uh oh. Something’s gone wrong. It might not be your fault – or maybe it is. Work long enough, and no matter how responsible and attentive you are, something, somewhere, will go wrong. What you do next with that bad news makes all the difference to your relationship and trust with your manager. 

Habits of High Performing Teams

Does your hybrid or virtual team struggle to get along or to be productive? Are you looking for a few quick tips to make virtual work, work better.

Karin Hurt and David Dye help human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results. As CEO and President of Let’s Grow Leaders, they are known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick. Karin and David are the award-winning authors of six books including, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict A former Verizon Wireless executive, Karin was named to Inc. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. David Dye is a former executive and elected official. Karin and David are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells – building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.