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The Winning Well
Karin Hurt and David Dye
How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice
What's your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. There are several answers that consistently rise to the top, including clarity, vision,...
How to Manage a Friend at Work
When you manage a friend at work start with clarity and keep communication open. Your first leadership role can be challenging when you manage a friend and people who, until yesterday, were your colleagues. When you understand the cause of these challenges, you can...
Being a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed or Anxious
Many leaders find that it's easier to be a human-centered leader when everything is going well. When you're stressed or anxious, it's easy to snap at your team, lose your temper and undermine the culture that you've worked so hard to build. Getting stressed out or...
General Topics
Karin Hurt and David Dye
Intimidating Questions: How Bad Questions Shut People Down
Avoid These Intimidating Questions That Can Silence Innovation and Problem Solving When someone on your team screws up or has one of those "what were they thinking" moments, particularly when the stakes are high. You need to figure out what's going on-- fast. In...
No More Vague Reports: How to Help Your Team Give You Useful Information
Help your team turn data into action by teaching them how to present useful information Tired of sitting through endless PowerPoint presentations that never answer your question? Does your team drown you with emailed essays and spreadsheets without clear...
Managing Change: How to Cultivate Forward Thinking Leadership
Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it's comfortable? If it’s been a year or more since you experienced a significant change...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
How to Thrive When Your Boss is Disengaged
You Care. Your Boss Doesn't (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss You’re giving it your all. You’re solving problems, driving results, making things happen. But your boss? They’re off in another world. It could be your boss is disengaged. Or,...
Better Feedback: The Secret to Giving (and Getting) Better Feedback
How to Communicate Like a Boss—With a Little Help from Your Pod You care about your team, and you want to help. But what do you do if your feedback doesn't get through. How do you know if it's them or it's you? In today's Asking for a Friend, I answer this...
How do I build a better relationship with my difficult (icy) boss?
🔥 How to Warm Up Your Relationship with an Icy, Difficult Boss 🔥 You know the type: the difficult boss barely acknowledges you, keeps conversations strictly transactional, and never lets you see their human side. Frustrating right? But here’s the thing: their...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
How to Thrive When Your Boss is Disengaged
You Care. Your Boss Doesn't (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss You’re giving it your all. You’re solving problems, driving results, making things happen. But your boss? They’re off in another world. It could be your boss is disengaged. Or,...
Better Feedback: The Secret to Giving (and Getting) Better Feedback
How to Communicate Like a Boss—With a Little Help from Your Pod You care about your team, and you want to help. But what do you do if your feedback doesn't get through. How do you know if it's them or it's you? In today's Asking for a Friend, I answer this...
How do I build a better relationship with my difficult (icy) boss?
🔥 How to Warm Up Your Relationship with an Icy, Difficult Boss 🔥 You know the type: the difficult boss barely acknowledges you, keeps conversations strictly transactional, and never lets you see their human side. Frustrating right? But here’s the thing: their...
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Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
6 Overlooked Leadership Skills To Run Meetings That People WANT To Attend
Episode 296: Are you running meetings that drive real results—or just draining everyone's time and energy? People don't hate meetings—they hate pointless meetings. Those soul-sucking wastes of time. If your team’s meetings often end with vague action items, low...
3 Key Leadership Communication Skills to Build a High Trust Culture
Episode 295: How can you build a high trust culture that empowers your team to solve problems faster, innovate more, and reduce stress? In this episode, we explore the power of a high trust culture and how it can completely transform your team’s ability to...
Flexible Leadership: Make Better Decisions and Reduce Stress
Episode 294: What if being a more flexible leader could help you make better decisions and lead with more confidence? The world is moving faster than ever, and leading through uncertainty can feel overwhelming. The same leadership habits that worked before might...