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How to Convince Your Boss You Have a Great Solution
Convince Your Boss You Have a Great Solution You see a problem and you have a great solution. But, no one asked you for your opinion. You are tempted to convince your boss that your solution is a good one, but it's tricky. If you're like many of the employees in...
How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change
Help Your Team Navigate Through Culture Change When you're working hard on culture change, it's natural for your team to feel skeptical. After all, you've been thinking about this for a while. You're committed to engagement and making a difference. You may wonder...
Great Skip Level Meetings: 5 Strategic Approaches for Executive Visits
Skip Level Meetings: Strategic Approaches for Executive Visits You know executive visits and skip-level meetings are important. And , they come more naturally to some of us than others. Skip-level meetings and executive visits can backfire, or they can be...
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How to Be an Even Better Leader
If you want to be a better leader, get curious about what you might still be able to learn We recently had a very senior leader join a live-online leadership training he had hired us to do with his team. Not in a "watch from the sidelines" kind of way as sometimes...
Compassionate Accountability: How to Build a More Compassionate Workplace
In this Asking For a Friend LIVE interview with Dr. Nate Regier of Next Element, Karin and Nate talk about how to build a more compassionate workplace and share practical approaches for balancing accountability and compassion. [wp-video-popup...
Leaders Share Their Best of 2020 Insights: Frontline Festival
In this month's Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their Best of 2020 thoughts and posts. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Best of 2020 Insights: Practical Help Rachel Blakely-Gray of...
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Karin Hurt
Leading Through Change: 4 Practical Tips To Help Your Team Embrace a New Idea
How to Rally Your Team When Leading Through Change You're a human-centered leader, leading through change that you know will have a positive impact on your team, your customers, and your results. You know how important it is to get your team rallied around an...
Powerful Phrases to Deal With a Credit Stealer or Idea Thief
Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve "I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I've been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right...
Should I Change My Style to Fit My Workplace Culture?
Should I change my style to fit in with my workplace culture? That's a tricky and complicated question... "should I change my style?" In this week's #askingforafriend on the road, I come to you from Montreux, Switzerland, and the famous Freddie Mercury statue. ...
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Leading Through Change: 4 Practical Tips To Help Your Team Embrace a New Idea
How to Rally Your Team When Leading Through Change You're a human-centered leader, leading through change that you know will have a positive impact on your team, your customers, and your results. You know how important it is to get your team rallied around an...
Powerful Phrases to Deal With a Credit Stealer or Idea Thief
Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve "I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I've been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right...
Should I Change My Style to Fit My Workplace Culture?
Should I change my style to fit in with my workplace culture? That's a tricky and complicated question... "should I change my style?" In this week's #askingforafriend on the road, I come to you from Montreux, Switzerland, and the famous Freddie Mercury statue. ...
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Leading Yourself with Clarity and Accountability with Marc Lesser
Clarity and accountability are key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces. This can look like prioritizing long-term benefits by facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection,...
Help for the Overwhelmed Working Manager
Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, "I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren't working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team....
Is Maintaining a Dirty Word for Leaders
Why do we have to have a conversation about maintaining our infrastructure? When you build a road, you know it's going to deteriorate. You build a bridge, the engineers will tell you upfront what the serviceable life of that bridge will be. And they even have fun...