Leadership Blog
Let’s Grow Leaders Various Blog Topics
The Winning Well
Karin Hurt and David Dye
Leading for Justice with Rita Sever
When your cause is important and you’re working to build a better world, leadership matters more than ever – but it often takes a back seat to the scramble to achieve today’s results. The unfortunate consequence in many mission-driven...
Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects
The Great Resignation is new–the art of cultivating loyalty is consistent. When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job, you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck...
How Leaders Make The Most of Complaints
You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, and your team seems to work well together, but then you get a call. “Hey, I need to talk to you about a conflict, a disagreement, a clash of personalities.” What you do next will reinforce your...
See Karin & David In Action!
General Topics
Karin Hurt and David Dye
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...
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...
How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur
How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _______ (make this...
Practical Leadership Tools in Your Inbox
Join the Let’s Grow Leaders community for free weekly leadership insights, tools, and strategies you can use right away!
Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
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...
My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend
Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy band of underdogs are stepping onto the court, and it’s clear the other guys are taller, faster, and, let’s be...
The Most Overlooked Part of Difficult Conversations? Location, Location, Location.
Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If you’ve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, or—yes, it happens—been let go over Zoom, you’re not alone. One of the most...
Where in the World are
Karin & David?
Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
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...
My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend
Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy band of underdogs are stepping onto the court, and it’s clear the other guys are taller, faster, and, let’s be...
The Most Overlooked Part of Difficult Conversations? Location, Location, Location.
Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If you’ve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, or—yes, it happens—been let go over Zoom, you’re not alone. One of the most...
Download Free Chapters
Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
7 Crisis Leadership Skills to Help You and Your Team Navigate the Storm
Episode 321: When chaos hits, do you have the crisis leadership skills to keep yourself—and your team—steady? Leadership Survey As a leader, you can’t always control the storm, but you can control how you show up. In today’s episode, you’ll learn practical ways to...
5 Leadership Communication Skills to Use When You’re Angry, Frustrated, or Overwhelmed
Episode 320: When frustration hits, how strong are your leadership communication skills—do they help you build trust, or do they risk tearing your culture down? Leadership Survey As a leader, those heated moments can make or break your team’s culture. What you say...
One Leadership Mindset Shift to Stop Burnout, Avoid Overwhelm, and Improve Your Work Life Balance
Episode 319: Are you the leader everyone turns to for help—yet secretly running on empty? What feels like generosity today can quietly drain your energy and keep your team from growing tomorrow. It’s time for a mindset shift. Leadership Survey If you’ve ever felt...