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The Winning Well
Karin Hurt and David Dye
How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer
It takes compassion and strength to fire a poor performer. Have you ever been reluctant to fire a poor performer? You might identify with Mary. She approached David as he finished delivering a leadership development program and introduced herself. “I was the vice...
3 of the Most Important Leadership Skills Your Leaders Hope You Have
Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders...
Building a High-Performance Team: A Frontline Festival
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about building a high performance team. We've expanded the Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork and are always looking for...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
Leaders Share Support Resources for Times of Crisis: A Frontline Festival
Leaders Share Support Resources During this extremely challenging time, it's so heartwarming to see so many people doing all they can to be helpful. We've been so grateful to receive the amazing support resources coming from our Frontline Festival contributors. The...
How to Be a Better Leader as Your Responsibilities Scale
Be a Better Leader as Your Job Gets Bigger Transitions in scope and scale are tricky. If you continue to approach your work exactly the same as you did at the last level, you will surely fail. On the other hand, if you abandon all your best characteristics and...
How to Support Your Team During an Unexpected Layoff
The Emotional Throes of an Unexpected Layoff My heart has been breaking all day. I've been doing the best I can with the onslaught of phone calls, emails, and texts from incredible leaders in the emotional throes of an unexpected layoff. "I've been laid off." "I...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Can I Be Both Humble and Ambitious? #Askingforafriend (Video)
Amer Kaissi Shares Insights on the Power of Humbition If you've been following me for a bit you know that I'm all about confident humility. Watching leaders with and without it inspired my first blog posts a decade ago while still working at Verizon. And was a...
How do we grow leaders as teachers? (Video) with Dr. Sydney Finkelstein
As you know, I'm really passionate about growing leaders. And, we always build a "leaders as teachers" component into our leadership and development programs. In fact, we're excited to be speaking on this topic at the ATD conference in Orlando this May. If you're...
Career Growth: How to Be More Creative as You Develop Your Team (Video)
Beyond the Climb: 7 Additional Dimensions to Career Growth As a human-centered leader, you truly care about your team and their career growth. But what if promotional opportunities are limited, or you have team members who are just not interested in taking on more?...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Can I Be Both Humble and Ambitious? #Askingforafriend (Video)
Amer Kaissi Shares Insights on the Power of Humbition If you've been following me for a bit you know that I'm all about confident humility. Watching leaders with and without it inspired my first blog posts a decade ago while still working at Verizon. And was a...
How do we grow leaders as teachers? (Video) with Dr. Sydney Finkelstein
As you know, I'm really passionate about growing leaders. And, we always build a "leaders as teachers" component into our leadership and development programs. In fact, we're excited to be speaking on this topic at the ATD conference in Orlando this May. If you're...
Career Growth: How to Be More Creative as You Develop Your Team (Video)
Beyond the Climb: 7 Additional Dimensions to Career Growth As a human-centered leader, you truly care about your team and their career growth. But what if promotional opportunities are limited, or you have team members who are just not interested in taking on more?...
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Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
How Great Leadership Styles Prevent Overwhelm and Burnout
Episode 193: How Great Leadership Styles Prevent Overwhelm and Burnout Ever feel caught between leadership and management, trying to keep your team productive without getting lost in busy, overwhelming work? What if the real key to avoiding burnout and conflict is...
Relatable Leadership with Marisa and Simon Cleveland
Have you ever wondered how the most admired leaders live? In this episode, Marisa Cleveland and Simon Cleveland draw on their combined forty years of experience in corporate, government, and higher education leadership to answer this question. Through anecdotes and...
Leading Step by Step
I fell asleep at 1:00 AM sandwiched between strangers on my right and my daughter to my left. Whatever challenge you face, leading step by step, little by little, or poco a poco, will help. You don't have to know all the answers or how everything's going to turn...