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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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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...
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...
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Advice Fatigue Is Real—Let’s Talk About What Makes It Stick (With Video)
Why Even Great Advice Gets Ignored—and How to Change That How receptive are you to advice? I like to think of myself as a highly coachable person who is open to advice. And lately, I’ve noticed a pattern. People offer me advice—sometimes I’m fully engaged,...
Why Smart Teams Resist Your New Idea (And What to Do About It)
Practical Ways to Slow Down to Give Your New Idea a Fighting Chance of Success You've just come back from a strategic planning session with your boss and peers and you've got an amazing idea for your team to implement. You think it's visionary, game-changing,...
Share Your Concerns: Speak Up Without Blowing Things Up
Because staying silent doesn’t solve the problem— it just delays the meeting about it. You know that moment. The one where your Spidey senses tingle. Something’s off. The numbers don’t line up, the timeline feels wobbly, or someone’s “great idea” is slowly morphing...
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Karin Hurt
Advice Fatigue Is Real—Let’s Talk About What Makes It Stick (With Video)
Why Even Great Advice Gets Ignored—and How to Change That How receptive are you to advice? I like to think of myself as a highly coachable person who is open to advice. And lately, I’ve noticed a pattern. People offer me advice—sometimes I’m fully engaged,...
Why Smart Teams Resist Your New Idea (And What to Do About It)
Practical Ways to Slow Down to Give Your New Idea a Fighting Chance of Success You've just come back from a strategic planning session with your boss and peers and you've got an amazing idea for your team to implement. You think it's visionary, game-changing,...
Share Your Concerns: Speak Up Without Blowing Things Up
Because staying silent doesn’t solve the problem— it just delays the meeting about it. You know that moment. The one where your Spidey senses tingle. Something’s off. The numbers don’t line up, the timeline feels wobbly, or someone’s “great idea” is slowly morphing...
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1 Critical Leadership Skill You Need to Help You and Your Team Avoid Burnout
Episode 323: How can you, as a leader, stay grounded and avoid burnout when the pressure never seems to let up? If you’re tired of the constant pressure, the never-ending uncertainty, and the feeling that sheer grit is the only way forward, you’re not alone. This...
7 Leadership Skills That Transform Risk-Adverse Teams into Problem-Solving Champions
Episode 322: Does your risk-averse team stall out at the edge of progress—hesitating, overanalyzing, or waiting for one more approval? If you’ve seen promising ideas grind to a halt because your people equate safety with smart, this episode is for you. In today’s...
7 Crisis Leadership Skills to Help You and Your Team Navigate the Storm
Episode 321: When chaos hits, do you have the crisis leadership skills to keep yourself—and your team—steady? As a leader, you can’t always control the storm, but you can control how you show up. In today’s episode, you’ll learn practical ways to navigate upheaval...