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Karin Hurt and David Dye
How Leaders Make Business Metrics Meaningful
Meaningful Business Metrics Aren’t About the Number When it comes to business metrics, there’s a secret that top-performing leaders understand, but might not tell you aloud: “Your customer doesn’t care about your internal scorecard.” Top-performing leaders pick a...
Advanced Guide to Lead Meetings That Get Results and People Want to Attend
Effective leaders hold meetings that get results and people want to attend Horrible meetings are a cliché of the business world and with good reason. Too many meetings are a waste of time and don’t accomplish anything. Minutes creep along while the meeting leader...
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,...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
5×5 Communication: a Leadership Communication Strategy to Ensure Your Message Sticks
The right communication strategy helps your message cut through noise and distraction. You’ve said it. You’ve said it again. And yet, somehow, people still don’t seem to know what’s going on. If you’re ever frustrated that your team doesn’t act on important...
How to Lead Sustainable Business Culture Change: A 3-Step Framework for Success
Senior leaders serious about changing business culture do three things consistently. Think about the business culture you’ve always wanted for your organization—the energy, the purpose, the unwavering alignment toward a common vision. Now, think about how much...
What Do You Like Most About Your Job? (With Video)
Your leadership highlight reel: Start by identifying what you like most about your job What do you like most about your job? When you reflect on your career (so far) what’s the highlight reel? What are you most PROUD of in your leadership? What brings you...
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Karin Hurt
How to Challenge Assumptions That Hold Your Team Back (with Video)
Challenge Assumptions to Improve Decisions, Innovation, and Trust Transform your team’s decision-making by challenging assumptions. Break free from narratives that limit innovation and growth. “My team is smart, experienced, and well‑intentioned. The problem?...
Devastated with Your Employee Engagement Survey Results? Do This Next
How Courageous Leaders Respond to Tough Employee Engagement Survey Feedback You open your employee engagement survey results, and your stomach drops. You knew your team had concerns, but this is a shocker. After all, you care about your team and try to be a...
A Visioning Activity to Bring Your Team Together and Focus Forward (with Video)
Help Your Team Envision a Year They’ll Be Proud of You’re kicking off a fresh new year with your team, and you want to do more than just run through goals and set stretch KPIs. You’re looking for a visioning activity that creates space for real...
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Karin Hurt
How to Challenge Assumptions That Hold Your Team Back (with Video)
Challenge Assumptions to Improve Decisions, Innovation, and Trust Transform your team’s decision-making by challenging assumptions. Break free from narratives that limit innovation and growth. “My team is smart, experienced, and well‑intentioned. The problem?...
Devastated with Your Employee Engagement Survey Results? Do This Next
How Courageous Leaders Respond to Tough Employee Engagement Survey Feedback You open your employee engagement survey results, and your stomach drops. You knew your team had concerns, but this is a shocker. After all, you care about your team and try to be a...
A Visioning Activity to Bring Your Team Together and Focus Forward (with Video)
Help Your Team Envision a Year They’ll Be Proud of You’re kicking off a fresh new year with your team, and you want to do more than just run through goals and set stretch KPIs. You’re looking for a visioning activity that creates space for real...
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7 Common Communication Habits That Destroy Trust and Teamwork
Episode 344: Are your everyday communication habits quietly undermining your team’s trust—and your leadership influence? Complete the quick Leadership Survey (first 30 people get a signed copy of one of our books!) If you lead people, your communication habits...
The Seemingly Harmless Phrase that Erodes Team Trust and Kills Collaboration
Episode 343: Have you ever said “agree to disagree” to keep the peace—only to realize later it quietly damaged team trust and shut down real collaboration? Complete the quick Leadership Survey (first 30 people get a signed copy of one of our books!) If you lead a...
8 Leadership Communication Skills to Use When Your Boss is Micromanaging
Episode 342: Are you being micromanaged—or is there something else really going on behind your boss’s constant check-ins? Complete the quick Leadership Survey (first 30 people get a signed copy of one of our books!) If you’ve ever felt frustrated, second-guessed,...