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Karin Hurt and David Dye
How To Lead In The Midst Of Urgent, Rapid Change And Strain
Lead through rapid change with calm clarity. When he started work that week, “Aaron” didn’t know that he’d be asked to guide his team through a Coronavirus response, but within just a few days the situation was urgent. Major clients were making changes quickly....
How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home
This week we've received so many calls like this from managers faced with implementing new work from home policies. "I get the safety issues, I really do. But my team is used to being together in the same office. We collaborate all day long. That's what makes us so...
Stop Frustrating Coworkers: Avoid These Innocent Mistakes
Why You're Accidently Ticking Off Your Peers and Frustrating Your Coworkers Are you frustrating your coworkers and don't know why? You don't mean to. You're working hard, moving fast, and advocating for your team. And then, one day you overhear two coworkers...
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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Executive Development
In this month's Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their perspectives and insights on executive development. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Executive Development on a Personal Level...
How to Exit Your Job With Grace and Support Your Successor
How do you exit your job with grace? You're on to the next thing. Perhaps it was your call. Maybe not. Maybe you're happy. Perhaps you're not. In fact, perhaps "not happy" is an understatement. But it's not about you. It's about the mission and your team. And the...
Strategic HR: How to Help Your HR Team Be More Strategic
You want to build a strategic HR team that gets it- compassionate business partners who know their craft AND understand what matters most for the business. Today I offer some thoughts from both sides of the story as both an HR executive and a field leader leading...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Coach Your Team and be Even More Effective and Helpful
How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team If you're a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. And, it can be hard to know exactly how to make that happen in the midst of...
Empower Your Team to Make Better Decisions
Use This Powerful Process to Empower Your Teamto Solve Problems on Their Own How do you empower your team to solve more problems on their own? In today's Asking for a Friend from the PMI Rochester conference, David shares our very popular "9 What's" coaching...
Job Interview: The Best Way to Showcase Your Unique Talents (Video)
Nail Your Next Job Interview By Showcasing Your Unique Value I get frustrated and sad when I see highly qualified people unable to sell themselves in a job interview-- particularly when they seem to be so qualified. It happened again, perhaps you know someone who...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Coach Your Team and be Even More Effective and Helpful
How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team If you're a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. And, it can be hard to know exactly how to make that happen in the midst of...
Empower Your Team to Make Better Decisions
Use This Powerful Process to Empower Your Teamto Solve Problems on Their Own How do you empower your team to solve more problems on their own? In today's Asking for a Friend from the PMI Rochester conference, David shares our very popular "9 What's" coaching...
Job Interview: The Best Way to Showcase Your Unique Talents (Video)
Nail Your Next Job Interview By Showcasing Your Unique Value I get frustrated and sad when I see highly qualified people unable to sell themselves in a job interview-- particularly when they seem to be so qualified. It happened again, perhaps you know someone who...
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The Key to Finding Solutions
Have you ever experienced a recurring issue at work and despite thinking from multiple angles, no clear solutions come up? Or have you looked for something in your refrigerator or bookshelf and not been able to find it, only to discover it was right there in front...
Leadership Perspective from Desert Island Donkeys
"There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - Arthur Conan Doyle. Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. Many...
Leading with Experiential Intelligence with Soren Kaplan
Have you wondered how your past experiences affect your present success and future opportunities? Experiential Intelligence—the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences-- helps uncover just that. While you can't change...