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Karin Hurt and David Dye
Lead Your Team to Make Better Decisions, Faster
When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. In this episode, you'll get the tools to overcome both of these problems before they derail your team. Take these two quick...
Leading When Things Break
Are you blindsided when things break down, problems happen, or conflict occurs? Great leaders anticipate these breakdowns and know that it's a matter of when - not if - they'll happen. Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to...
Calm the Chaos and Help Your Team Regain their Focus
It's a challenge common to many leaders and managers: Last-minute customer requests, emergencies, interruptions, and distractions make it hard to stay focused on your M.I.T.s (the Most Important Thing). If you're not careful, reactivity can become a permanent way...
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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...
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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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Recurring Conflict Conversations: How to Unstick Stuck Situations
To prevent recurring conflict conversations, focus on commitment Do you ever get frustrated by conflict conversations that just won't end? You think you've reached an agreement, and a few weeks later you're back to the same Groundhog Day discussion. Your...
How to Get Your Team to Stop Sending You Frustrating Email Communication
Streamline Your Team's Email Communication With 4 Important Questions Have you ever been SO FRUSTRATED by your team's email communication that you just want to hit "delete all"? Too many words. Gobs of attachments. Data with no explanation. If you're frustrated...
Team Conflict: Powerful Questions to Help Your Team Get Along
Powerful Phrases to Help With Team Conflict What do you do when YOUR TEAM is in conflict? They're coming to you, wound up, riled up, wanting YOU to solve THEIR team conflict for them... You might even think, "If I wanted this kind of drama, I would have taught...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Recurring Conflict Conversations: How to Unstick Stuck Situations
To prevent recurring conflict conversations, focus on commitment Do you ever get frustrated by conflict conversations that just won't end? You think you've reached an agreement, and a few weeks later you're back to the same Groundhog Day discussion. Your...
How to Get Your Team to Stop Sending You Frustrating Email Communication
Streamline Your Team's Email Communication With 4 Important Questions Have you ever been SO FRUSTRATED by your team's email communication that you just want to hit "delete all"? Too many words. Gobs of attachments. Data with no explanation. If you're frustrated...
Team Conflict: Powerful Questions to Help Your Team Get Along
Powerful Phrases to Help With Team Conflict What do you do when YOUR TEAM is in conflict? They're coming to you, wound up, riled up, wanting YOU to solve THEIR team conflict for them... You might even think, "If I wanted this kind of drama, I would have taught...
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Boost Productivity with a Human-Centered Culture
Episode 270: In this episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul podcast with David Dye, Chris Dyer is joining us to discuss how improving your company culture can also boost productivity. A great place to start? Pinpoint the pillar that’s most lacking in your...
The Change Challenge: Empowering Your Team for Success
Episode 269: In this episode of The Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, hosted by David Dye, you'll dive the into change challenge and the fascinating world of behavioral economics with guest Melina Palmer. Behavioral economics is all about understanding...
Uncovering Bias: How to Identify and Mitigate Systemic Issues
Episode 268: In this episode of the Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, David Dye sits down with Binna Kandola to explore the impact of bias on our thinking and decision-making. Bias can lead to snap judgments and stereotypes. Unconscious bias is even...