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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success
To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And there’s nothing more frustrating than being told,...
Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams
To Lead Highly Productive Teams: Keep Them Focused on What Matters Most If you want to increase productivity at work, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most in four areas. First, ensure your team understands their big strategic priorities - the outcomes...
Micro-Motivation: A Powerful Technique to Inspire Your Team
Inspire Your Team By Isolating Habits and Behaviors Through "Confidence Bursts" What if you believe your strategy is achievable, but your team is skeptical if they can pull it off? You’ve set and reinforced clear expectations and clearly communicated "what" you...
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The Secret to High-Performance Work Teams: Mastering the Performance Loop
High-Performance Teams Don’t Leave Their Achievement to Chance You know what it's like when a high performance work team fires on all cylinders. There’s energy, trust, and clarity. You make decisions quickly, everyone shares their insights, and people genuinely...
Recognition Power Words: The Phrases that Mean the Most
The Right Words at the Right Time: Crafting Recognition That Sticks Think about the best recognition you’ve ever received. Who said what, and why did it hit you so deeply? Recently, two people told me, “I am proud of you.” Both times, my throat tightened with...
5×5 Communication: a Leadership Communication Strategy to Ensure Your Message Sticks
The right communication strategy helps your message cut through noise and distraction. You’ve said it. You’ve said it again. And yet, somehow, people still don’t seem to know what’s going on. If you're ever frustrated that your team doesn’t act on important...
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Karin Hurt
“Get Off Your Butt” Isn’t Sales Coaching (But Here’s What Is) with Video
Sales Coaching for Habit Change, Not Just Hopeful Conversations We were at the ATD (the global Association for Talent Development) conference, chatting with folks at our booth, when a sales manager stopped by, clearly frustrated with unsuccessful attempts at sales...
Pump Up the Praise: Fun Employee Appreciation on a Budget
Employee Appreciation on a Budget? Bring the Balloons So you're bringing your team together and want to include a bit of employee appreciation. Maybe it’s been a while. You want to start strong—good energy, some connection, perhaps even a little fun. And you...
6 Practical Ways to Be Easy to Work With
Smart, Strategic, and Still Easy to Work With? Yes, You Can. You know that person everyone wants on their team? The one people describe with a big smile and a big thumbs up because, “they’re just so easy to work with”? Yeah, be that person. Whether you’re...
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Karin Hurt
“Get Off Your Butt” Isn’t Sales Coaching (But Here’s What Is) with Video
Sales Coaching for Habit Change, Not Just Hopeful Conversations We were at the ATD (the global Association for Talent Development) conference, chatting with folks at our booth, when a sales manager stopped by, clearly frustrated with unsuccessful attempts at sales...
Pump Up the Praise: Fun Employee Appreciation on a Budget
Employee Appreciation on a Budget? Bring the Balloons So you're bringing your team together and want to include a bit of employee appreciation. Maybe it’s been a while. You want to start strong—good energy, some connection, perhaps even a little fun. And you...
6 Practical Ways to Be Easy to Work With
Smart, Strategic, and Still Easy to Work With? Yes, You Can. You know that person everyone wants on their team? The one people describe with a big smile and a big thumbs up because, “they’re just so easy to work with”? Yeah, be that person. Whether you’re...
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1 Surprising Way to Ensure You Grow Your Leadership Skills
Episode 306: What if the most powerful feedback tool to grow your leadership skills isn’t in your manager’s hands—but yours? Let’s face it—leaders often struggle to get the kind of feedback they actually need to grow. Either it’s anonymous, vague, or just too...
Poor Communication Skills that Destroy Trust and Teamwork
Episode 305: Have you ever wondered if the way you communicate as a leader could destroy trust with your team? Even well-meaning leaders unintentionally send the wrong message through avoidable communication missteps—and when trust slips, so does performance,...
How Great Leaders Escalate Accountability to Get Everyone the Feedback They Need
What do great leaders do when a team member says they'll change… but nothing changes? You’ve had the first accountability talk. Maybe even a second. And still—you're stuck in a frustrating loop, repeating yourself while performance stalls. This episode is your next...