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Karin Hurt and David Dye
Winning Well: Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be (Videos)
Winning Well - the art of blending the bottom line with the human spirit Winning Well gives leaders practical tools to achieve breakthrough results that last. After training over 10,000 leaders in fourteen countries in our Winning Well practical leadership tools...
Too Many Meetings – How to Free Your Team to Build, Create, and Thrive (video)
Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain...
Celebrating 100 Winning Wells Providing Clean Water in Cambodia
Celebrating Over 100 Clean Water Winning Wells in Cambodia It was the Summer of 2016 and we had had just launched our new book Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results—Without Losing Your Soul. We were talking to our good friend Scott Friedman about the...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
Team Conflict: How to Surface and Discuss Simmering Issues (Video)
Address Team Conflict Early Before it Erupts into Something Bigger We all know that when there is team conflict brewing, it's only a matter of time before it erupts into something bigger. It's like families refusing to talk about the tough stuff, and then one day...
How to Build a Better Network of Peer Relationships
Don't Overlook the Importance of Peers in Your Network of Strategic Advisors When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it's natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to's. Yes, you want a...
Courage at Work: How to Be More Courageous (and Why it Matters) Video
You want to be more courageous, but sometimes the stakes can just feel too high. So, how do you know the difference between courage and stupidity? "Courage is every virtue at its testing point" -C.S.Lewis In this week's, Asking for a Friend, Karin speaks with Jim...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Help! I Inherited a Dysfunctional Team: What Now? Asking for a Friend
What to do next when you inherit a team that feels like they're operating in the Wild, Wild West. You've inherited a new team and it's not going well. Employees are doing who knows what, when, where, with all kinds of "hows" that don't make sense... and you think:...
How Do I Do a Well-Being Check-in Without… (Asking for a Friend)
Practical, Easy(ish) Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In You care about your employees and their mental health. You want to talk with them. But these conversations can be tricky and sensitive. And of course, you also care about their work and their...
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...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Help! I Inherited a Dysfunctional Team: What Now? Asking for a Friend
What to do next when you inherit a team that feels like they're operating in the Wild, Wild West. You've inherited a new team and it's not going well. Employees are doing who knows what, when, where, with all kinds of "hows" that don't make sense... and you think:...
How Do I Do a Well-Being Check-in Without… (Asking for a Friend)
Practical, Easy(ish) Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In You care about your employees and their mental health. You want to talk with them. But these conversations can be tricky and sensitive. And of course, you also care about their work and their...
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...
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With David Dye
One Common Leadership Communication Mistake to Avoid for Better Conflict Resolution
Is your approach to conflict resolution unintentionally shutting down collaboration with phrases like "let's agree to disagree"? This episode tackles one of the most common but damaging phrases leaders use in the workplace. Whether you're navigating team conflicts,...
Leadership Skills for More Teamwork and Better Problem Solving
What if mastering your leadership potential and fostering more teamwork started with mastering yourself? Are you ready to discover how self-mastery can transform your team’s performance and spark creativity? In today’s fast-paced world, leaders struggle to juggle...
The Busy Leader’s Guide to Career Development Conversations
Episode 281: What if mastering career development conversations could be the key to transforming your team’s performance and keeping your best people engaged—no matter where they work? If you’re a leader, you’ve likely faced the challenge of balancing results with...