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Karin Hurt and David Dye
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...
How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results
Transform your leadership and team’s results with the power of small habits Your team won’t become a high-functioning powerhouse after one offsite. You can’t be a trusted, influential leader after one week on the job. There are no leadership hacks or shortcuts that...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
What Do You Like Most About Your Job? (With Video)
Your leadership highlight reel: Start by identifying what you like most about your job What do you like most about your job? When you reflect on your career (so far) what's the highlight reel? What are you most PROUD of in your leadership? What brings you JOY?...
Intimidating Questions: How Bad Questions Shut People Down
Avoid These Intimidating Questions That Can Silence Innovation and Problem Solving When someone on your team screws up or has one of those "what were they thinking" moments, particularly when the stakes are high. You need to figure out what's going on-- fast. In...
No More Vague Reports: How to Help Your Team Give You Useful Information
Help your team turn data into action by teaching them how to present useful information Tired of sitting through endless PowerPoint presentations that never answer your question? Does your team drown you with emailed essays and spreadsheets without clear...
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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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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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With David Dye
Why Humility is the Leadership Path to Productivity and Problem Solving
Do you think mastering your leadership path means always having the answers? What if embracing humility could make you a more effective and respected leader? Leadership demands more empathy, adaptability, and connection than ever before. This episode explores how...
Building Resiliency: How to Become Your Own Coach
How do great leaders turn setbacks into comebacks? They cultivate resilience—and so can you. In today’s fast-paced, high-stakes environment, it's not enough to lead with purpose alone; resilience, your ability to bounce back and find a way through the toughest...
Leadership Practices for Creating a Human-Centered Work Culture
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to succeed in business while building a human-centered work culture and staying true to your values? In today’s episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul, host David Dye dives into a profound conversation with Mark...
