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Karin Hurt and David Dye
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...
Why Your Team Won’t Trust You – and What to Do About It
When your team won't trust you, that's job number one. If there’s one realization every leader can take to heart from the pandemic and social-political turmoil gripping the United States right now, it’s that you cannot lead without trust. Civil society requires...
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Your Talent Strategy: How to Avoid This Huge Mistake
Don't Jeopardize Your Talent Strategy With This Big Mistake As you formalize and add more rigor to your talent strategy and focus on your nine-box grid, be careful that your focus doesn't become overly myopic. The best talent strategies help all employees to grow. ...
Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now
Psychological safety pioneer, Dr. Amy Edmondson discusses the difference between psychological safety and courage at work Psychological safety pioneer, Dr. Amy Edmondson discusses the difference between psychological safety and courage at work, and why both are so...
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...
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Karin Hurt
How to Make a Great First Impression with Your New Team
Make a Great First Impression with a Stellar Team Meeting Hi Karin, I have a new team at work, and I want to make our first meeting fantastic. What recommendations do you have to form a great first impression with my new team? #askingforafriend Show up Interested...
How to Host Better, More Focused and Productive Executive Visits
Reduce "Zoo Fatigue": Take Control of Executive Visits "Hi Karin, I'm a manager of our flagship location. Which is pretty cool. And.... we are getting SO MANY executive visits. It's a constant parade of senior leaders looking to learn and looking to help. Don't get...
Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?
Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: "Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I'm...
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Karin Hurt
How to Make a Great First Impression with Your New Team
Make a Great First Impression with a Stellar Team Meeting Hi Karin, I have a new team at work, and I want to make our first meeting fantastic. What recommendations do you have to form a great first impression with my new team? #askingforafriend Show up Interested...
How to Host Better, More Focused and Productive Executive Visits
Reduce "Zoo Fatigue": Take Control of Executive Visits "Hi Karin, I'm a manager of our flagship location. Which is pretty cool. And.... we are getting SO MANY executive visits. It's a constant parade of senior leaders looking to learn and looking to help. Don't get...
Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?
Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: "Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I'm...
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Expert Strategies for Handling Vague Feedback from Your Boss
Episode 257: In this episode, you'll learn how to handle a manager who gives lazy, frustrating, and vague feedback. Drawing from the insights in his recent book, David offers practical phrases to navigate various feedback scenarios. Here's what you can do when...
Breaking Free from Micromanagement Through Effective Communication
Episode 256: Do you have a micromanager as a boss—what do you do to combat micromanagement? Tune in to this episode for some go-to phrases you can use to improve the relationship and keep the interactions at work positive. Host, David Dye, gives you a sneak peek at...
Simple Strategies for Resolving Conflict And Unlocking Team Potential
Episode 255: In this episode, you'll dive into the challenges of unlocking team potential when leading a team tangled in conflict. Imagine having a handbook of exactly what to say to calm the storm—that's what the book, "Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace...