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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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Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
How the Right Communication Skills Help Leaders Restore Productivity and Resolve Team Conflict
Episode 341: Are your team’s petty conflicts quietly draining productivity—and costing you business worth—because the right communication isn’t happening? Complete the quick Leadership Survey (first 30 people get a signed copy of one of our books!) You don’t have...
Hidden Communication Skills That Stop Unclear Expectations From Killing Productivity
Episode 340: What if the real thing killing productivity on your team isn’t laziness, workload, or attitude—but unspoken expectations no one ever clarified? Complete the quick Leadership Survey (first 30 people get a signed copy of one of our books!) You know the...
How to Say No: Leadership Communication Skills to Enhance Productivity
Episode 339: What if saying no at work could actually increase your business worth, even when the request comes straight from your boss? Leadership Survey If your plate is already overflowing, you know the tension: you want to be seen as collaborative and capable,...