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Karin Hurt and David Dye
How to Give Difficult Feedback to Your Boss (Even When You’re Scared)
To Ensure Your Upward Feedback is Received Well, Start with Connection and Intention You have some difficult feedback for your boss, but you're not quite sure they're ready to hear it. It might feel safer to stay silent. After all, they can't shoot the messenger if...
A Minute to Think with Juliet Funt
How to reclaim your creativity, conquer busyness, do your best work, and be your best self If you feel like you're constantly reacting and don't have a moment to think about what you're doing, much less why you're doing it, this episode is for you. Juliet Funt...
How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns
Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. Does your team get derailed by miscommunication, hurt feelings, customer service challenges, or another department’s dropped balls? These common relationship breakdowns don’t surprise effective...
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How Do I Have More Impact and Influence at Work? Video with Liz Wiseman
How do I have more impact and influence at work? For this Asking for a Friend, I talk with Liz Wiseman, Thinkers 50 award winner and author of Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact about what it means to be an impact player...
Our Team is Growing: How do I Lead Well Now? (With Video)
"Karin, our team is growing. Fast! How do I lead well now?" "Leading was easy when our team was small, but now our team is growing. What do I do now?" "How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?" [wp-video-popup...
Leading Through Disruption with David Giersdorf
Is there any industry that's been disrupted more at a global level over the past twenty years than the cruise lines? In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for...
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Karin Hurt
How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden
Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. Hi Karin, "I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. We are using the book and we're reading it. The good news...
How Do I Figure Out My Blind Spot and Hidden Motivations? #AskingForaFriend
Practical Advice to Deal with a Blind Spot and Make it Work For You How do you become aware of a blind spot in your leadership? After all, that's the point of a blind spot, right? In today's #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock, serial...
How To Find a Great Company Culture in Your Job Search
Take initiative to find a great company culture that's the right fit for you. You're looking for a job, perhaps even your first "real" job out of school. Awesome. Let's talk about how to find a great company culture that's the right fit for you. Here's the lowdown...
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Karin Hurt
How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden
Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. Hi Karin, "I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. We are using the book and we're reading it. The good news...
How Do I Figure Out My Blind Spot and Hidden Motivations? #AskingForaFriend
Practical Advice to Deal with a Blind Spot and Make it Work For You How do you become aware of a blind spot in your leadership? After all, that's the point of a blind spot, right? In today's #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock, serial...
How To Find a Great Company Culture in Your Job Search
Take initiative to find a great company culture that's the right fit for you. You're looking for a job, perhaps even your first "real" job out of school. Awesome. Let's talk about how to find a great company culture that's the right fit for you. Here's the lowdown...
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Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
12 G.O.A.T. Powerful Phrases to Instantly Boost Your Communication Skills
Episode 252: In this episode, David introduces you to 12 effective phrases to help you improve your communication skills and effectively navigate workplace conflict. He organizes these phrases into four critical areas: connection, clarity, curiosity, and...
How to Successfully Transform Your Team’s Conflict to Collaboration
Episode 251: In this episode, David Dye discusses transforming workplace conflict to collaboration. He introduces four dimensions that can help alleviate and deescalate conflicts. The four dimensions are: connection, clarity, curiosity, and commitment. David...
Strategies to Lead Your Company Forward to the Future of Work
Episode 250: In this episode, you'll hear David catching up with Dan Michelson, the author of "Holy Shift: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work." They tackle how critical trust is among leaders and the pivotal mindset shift needed to adeptly maneuver...
