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Karin Hurt and David Dye
5×5 Communication: a Leadership Communication Strategy to Ensure Your Message Sticks
The right communication strategy helps your message cut through noise and distraction. You’ve said it. You’ve said it again. And yet, somehow, people still don’t seem to know what’s going on. If you're ever frustrated that your team doesn’t act on important...
Confidential Information – What to Say When You Can’t Say Anything
Handle confidential information with candor and care to build trust It can feel like a trap. Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter. A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. In all these...
Navigating Change: How the Holidays Can Help You Be a Better Leader
The holiday season gives you a human-centered leadership map for navigating change Is your holiday season a time of celebration? Of bustling end-of-year stress to meet business goals? A time of nostalgia and reflecting on what you appreciate most? Of remembering...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
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 most frequently asked questions we hear from participants in our leadership development programs. So, let’s get this out of...
Leading Through Low Morale: How to Stay Strong When Everything Feels Uncertain
In Times of Chaos and Low Morale, Lead Yourself First You love your work. You’ve dedicated so many years to serving your people, the mission, and making a difference. But now, everything’s changed. Day after day, you face a new set of decisions that make little...
The Secret to High-Performance Work Teams: Mastering the Performance Loop
High-Performance Teams Don’t Leave Their Achievement to Chance You know what it's like when a high performance work team fires on all cylinders. There’s energy, trust, and clarity. You make decisions quickly, everyone shares their insights, and people genuinely...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Welcome to Team Crickets: How to Support Your Quiet Team
Inheriting a Quiet Team? Here’s How to Build a Culture of Voice You're a human-centered leader who wants people to speak up and contribute their ideas. AND, you've inherited a quiet team, what to do next? Dear Asking for a Friend,"I inherited a team that’s...
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 workplace distractions. Maybe you've even gathered your team around a campfire (or at least a flip chart), and focused on...
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 directions: Slack messages dinging like a fire alarm, meetings that could be emails, emails that could be lawsuits, and...
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Karin Hurt
Welcome to Team Crickets: How to Support Your Quiet Team
Inheriting a Quiet Team? Here’s How to Build a Culture of Voice You're a human-centered leader who wants people to speak up and contribute their ideas. AND, you've inherited a quiet team, what to do next? Dear Asking for a Friend,"I inherited a team that’s...
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 workplace distractions. Maybe you've even gathered your team around a campfire (or at least a flip chart), and focused on...
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 directions: Slack messages dinging like a fire alarm, meetings that could be emails, emails that could be lawsuits, and...
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With David Dye
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 stay on top of competing priorities while also protecting your team’s time and energy, this episode is your shortcut to...
3 Delegation Leadership Skills that Improve Productivity and Reduce Overwhelm
Episode 301: What if the key to improving productivity is simply learning how to delegate without anything falling through the cracks? Delegation is supposed to free up your time and build your team—but if you're constantly chasing updates or getting back subpar...
3 Overlooked Communication Skills to Be a Leader People Want to Follow
Episode 300: What separates a leader people want to follow from one they just tolerate—and could it be as simple as how you say, "Great job"? If you're like most leaders, you're juggling tasks, solving problems, and keeping your team afloat—but somewhere in the...