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Karin Hurt and David Dye
Confidential Information – What to Say When You Can’t Say Anything
Handle confidential information with candor and care to build trust It can feel like a trap. Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter. A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. In all these...
Navigating Change: How the Holidays Can Help You Be a Better Leader
The holiday season gives you a human-centered leadership map for navigating change Is your holiday season a time of celebration? Of bustling end-of-year stress to meet business goals? A time of nostalgia and reflecting on what you appreciate most? Of remembering...
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,...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
How to Inspire Innovative Thinking in a Risk-Averse World
When There’s No Room for Mistakes, Is There Still Room for Ideas? You love the idea of a Courageous Culture—one where people speak up, challenge the status quo, and offer game-changing ideas. But what happens when you’re working in a high-stakes environment where...
Crisis Leadership: How to Show Up When Everything’s Falling Apart
Crisis leadership demands that you empower yourself before trying to lead your team. We were working with "Vance," a human-centered CEO during a tumultuous season for his business—regulations changed by the week, unpredictable political landscapes made no sense,...
One of the Secret Innovation Barriers That Keeps Your People from Solving Problems
Overcome one of the most potent innovation barriers by resolving this common fear You’re a leader who wants ideas. You’ve done the Courageous Cultures work to build a workplace that encourages everyone to speak up, identify problems, and offer solutions. Everyone...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
How to Get Buy-in For Your Idea: Tips to Seal the Deal
Great Idea. Lots of Nods. No Decision. Now What? You’re trying to get buy-in for your idea—an idea you know would add real strategic value—but it’s stuck in conversation purgatory. People are talking about it. Agreeing with it. Circling it in meetings. Saying,...
How to Lead a High-Performing Team of Competitive Achievers (With Video)
Asking for a Friend: How Do You Get High Performers to Win Together? What do you do when you’re leading a high-performing team full of smart, driven, A-type achievers? Big strengths, opinions, and energy. Also? Big potential for meetings that feel like intellectual...
How Do You Keep Going When Your Creative Vision Is Criticized?
When Your Creative Vision Meets Pushback What do you do when your creative vision (or project) that you've poured your heart into gets criticized — and it hits harder than you expected? I’m standing near the Sydney Opera House, one of the most recognizable...
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Karin Hurt
How to Get Buy-in For Your Idea: Tips to Seal the Deal
Great Idea. Lots of Nods. No Decision. Now What? You’re trying to get buy-in for your idea—an idea you know would add real strategic value—but it’s stuck in conversation purgatory. People are talking about it. Agreeing with it. Circling it in meetings. Saying,...
How to Lead a High-Performing Team of Competitive Achievers (With Video)
Asking for a Friend: How Do You Get High Performers to Win Together? What do you do when you’re leading a high-performing team full of smart, driven, A-type achievers? Big strengths, opinions, and energy. Also? Big potential for meetings that feel like intellectual...
How Do You Keep Going When Your Creative Vision Is Criticized?
When Your Creative Vision Meets Pushback What do you do when your creative vision (or project) that you've poured your heart into gets criticized — and it hits harder than you expected? I’m standing near the Sydney Opera House, one of the most recognizable...
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With David Dye
8 Leadership Communication Skills to Use When Your Boss is Micromanaging
Episode 342: Are you being micromanaged—or is there something else really going on behind your boss’s constant check-ins? If you’ve ever felt frustrated, second-guessed, or slowed down by a boss who keeps hovering over your work, you’re not alone. But here’s the...
How the Right Communication Skills Help Leaders Restore Productivity and Resolve Team Conflict
Episode 341: Are your team’s petty conflicts quietly draining productivity—and costing you business worth—because the right communication isn’t happening? You don’t have time to play referee. You’ve got goals to hit, deadlines looming, and a team that should be...
Hidden Communication Skills That Stop Unclear Expectations From Killing Productivity
Episode 340: What if the real thing killing productivity on your team isn’t laziness, workload, or attitude—but unspoken expectations no one ever clarified? You know the frustration. A meeting goes sideways. A teammate feels disrespected. You’re stuck in a circular...