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Karin Hurt and David Dye
One Easy Way to Get Your Team Talking (With Video)
This technique will get your team talking about hopes and fears. You want to get your team talking about their concerns, but if they're like so many of the employees in our courageous cultures research, they are likely holding back. In fact, 40% of the employees in...
How to Get Better at Delegating the Right Decisions (With Video)
Delegate the Right Decisions to Save Time and Reduce Anxiety for Everyone You want to empower your team to make the right decisions. But delegating can be scary. After all, some decisions are not up to them. Heck, some are not even up to you. So, how do you...
Thriving into the New Abnormal: How to Support Your Team (with Video)
There's Nothing Normal About Where We're Headed Next- Time to Embrace the New Abnormal Your team is looking to you for guidance on what happens next. As you're making plans think beyond the new normal, and focus on helping your team thrive in the new abnormal. Last...
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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?
How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? In this week's Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. [wp-video-popup...
Staying Coachable with Sean Glaze
Change is challenging for most of us. But the most effective leaders continually learn and grow. Former basketball coach and leadership consultant Sean Glaze gives you the path for staying coachable and avoid the complacency that can undermine your influence. If...
Good Comes First with Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt
As a business leader, how do you create a purposeful, positive, and productive work environment for your employees and customers while improving your bottom line? In short, "good" comes first. Your culture is imperative. In this episode, culture experts Chris...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback
Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review You’re right. You deserve high-quality, carefully considered feedback in your performance review. Your manager should take this seriously and do it right. But often they don't. It's statistically...
How to Reset Expectations When You’ve Been “Too Nice”
You don't have to keep tolerating destructive behavior. Here's how to reset performance expectations. You've been so nice. You care about _____ (your team, your boss, your co-workers, your career, not rocking the boat...) so you've looked the other way when the...
How do I Succeed in My First Job? Asking for a Friend
3 Practical Ways to Show Up Strong as You Start Your Career You're new to your career. Maybe this is even your very first job. You want to get it right and have smooth sailing from the start. Excellent. Let's start with three practical tips that make your new...
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Karin Hurt
Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback
Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review You’re right. You deserve high-quality, carefully considered feedback in your performance review. Your manager should take this seriously and do it right. But often they don't. It's statistically...
How to Reset Expectations When You’ve Been “Too Nice”
You don't have to keep tolerating destructive behavior. Here's how to reset performance expectations. You've been so nice. You care about _____ (your team, your boss, your co-workers, your career, not rocking the boat...) so you've looked the other way when the...
How do I Succeed in My First Job? Asking for a Friend
3 Practical Ways to Show Up Strong as You Start Your Career You're new to your career. Maybe this is even your very first job. You want to get it right and have smooth sailing from the start. Excellent. Let's start with three practical tips that make your new...
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7 Critical Communication Skills for First Time Managers to Boost Teamwork
Episode 298: Are you a new manager struggling to boost teamwork and communicate in ways that truly move your team forward? This episode explores seven essential communication skills every first-time manager needs. Skills to reduce conflict, earn respect, and build...
How to Influence Your Boss and Share Critical Feedback
Episode 297: How do you give critical feedback to your boss without risking the relationship, overstepping, stressing out, or burning bridges? You’re juggling priorities, managing a team, and trying to meet expectations. But what happens when your manager’s...
6 Overlooked Leadership Skills To Run Meetings That People WANT To Attend
Episode 296: Are you running meetings that drive real results—or just draining everyone's time and energy? People don't hate meetings—they hate pointless meetings. Those soul-sucking wastes of time. If your team’s meetings often end with vague action items, low...