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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...
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...
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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Leading Through Low Morale: How to Stay Strong When Everything Feels Uncertain
In Times of Chaos and Low Morale, Lead Yourself First You love your work. You’ve dedicated so many years to serving your people, the mission, and making a difference. But now, everything’s changed. Day after day, you face a new set of decisions that make little...
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...
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...
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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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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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5 Leadership Communication Skills to Quiet Chaos and Keep Teams Moving Forward
Episode 355: How do you quiet chaos that keeps your team busy but prevents them from making real progress? You start the day with a plan, but before long, interruptions, urgent requests, and unexpected problems have everyone scrambling. When chaos becomes part of...
How to Rebuild Trust, Teamwork and Collaboration in a Strained Culture
Episode 354: Is your strained culture quietly eroding trust, teamwork, and performance faster than you can fix it? When trust breaks down at work, you feel it everywhere — communication gets guarded, collaboration slows down, and people start operating in survival...
8 Communication Skills to Build a Performance Culture of Accountability
Episode 353: What would your team achieve if everyone felt confident enough to hold each other accountable and build a true performance culture? If you’re dealing with missed deadlines, a lack of follow-through, or team members avoiding difficult conversations,...