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Karin Hurt and David Dye
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....
Leading Through Rapidly Changing Priorities
Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing...
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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...
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...
Employee Retention Strategies When Work Gets Chaotic and Messy
Employee retention strategies will help your team stick around through reorganizations, layoffs, and other corporate chaos. Transitions, reorganizations, layoffs, mergers, acquisitions—they are all part of the business landscape. And while effective leaders will...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
How to Reduce Conflict at Family Gatherings (Without Reaching for the Diaper Genie)
Family Gatherings, Minus the Tension: Powerful Phrases That Help What’s the polite way to not lose your mind when there is conflict at a family gathering? #askingforafriend Like, hypothetically, if someone brings up that topic.Or makes that comment.Or stares...
So… Who’s Leading This Matrixed Team? Asking for a Friend
Make your matrixed team easier to lead, one conversation at a time. You’re leading a matrixed team, and it feels like no one’s really in charge—but everyone wants to be. Priorities conflict. Meetings drag. People say things like “we need alignment” but leave...
I Accidently Got Promoted and Became the Boss, Now What? #AskingForAFriend
Leadership Wasn’t the Plan, But Here You Are You didn’t campaign for this promotion. You weren’t trying to climb anything. But here you are—a newly promoted manager. And suddenly, everything feels different. People are looking at you like you have answers....
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
How to Reduce Conflict at Family Gatherings (Without Reaching for the Diaper Genie)
Family Gatherings, Minus the Tension: Powerful Phrases That Help What’s the polite way to not lose your mind when there is conflict at a family gathering? #askingforafriend Like, hypothetically, if someone brings up that topic.Or makes that comment.Or stares...
So… Who’s Leading This Matrixed Team? Asking for a Friend
Make your matrixed team easier to lead, one conversation at a time. You’re leading a matrixed team, and it feels like no one’s really in charge—but everyone wants to be. Priorities conflict. Meetings drag. People say things like “we need alignment” but leave...
I Accidently Got Promoted and Became the Boss, Now What? #AskingForAFriend
Leadership Wasn’t the Plan, But Here You Are You didn’t campaign for this promotion. You weren’t trying to climb anything. But here you are—a newly promoted manager. And suddenly, everything feels different. People are looking at you like you have answers....
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With David Dye
7 Destructive Things Leaders Say that Stifle Innovation, Trust, and Teamwork (and what to say for more innovation)
Episode 349: What if the everyday phrases you use as a leader are quietly stifling innovation on your team? If your team seems hesitant to share ideas or to take initiative, the issue might not be a lack of talent; it might be communication. This episode zeroes in...
4 Steps to Build Trust and Improve Your Performance Management
Episode 348: What would it mean for your business’s worth if every tough conversation you handled helped you build trust instead of quietly eroding it? You’ve been there—someone puts you on the spot, asking about promotions, performance, or sensitive...
This 1 Leadership Communication Skill Helps You Get Results Without Burning Out Your Team—or Yourself
Episode 347: What if one simple leadership habit could help you get results faster—without burning out your team or yourself? You’re juggling competing priorities, endless conversations, and a workload that never seems to shrink. Maybe you’ve said things like...