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The Winning Well
Karin Hurt and David Dye
Leaders: Welcome to the Hope Business
Leadership is the belief that together, we can have a better tomorrow. Are you in the hope business?
A Remarkably Easy Way to Get Better Customer Feedback
Do you have a good way to tap into the customer feedback your employees are hearing every day? Are your frontline employees trained and equipt to be true customer advocates? Do they feel like their voice is being heard? If you've been following our blog for a...
How to Take Charge of Your Remote Meetings
Lead remote meetings that get results and build relationships. Tired of shadowy silhouettes, screechy feedback, and multitasking participants? It doesn’t have to be that way. Remote meetings are a daily fact of life for most leaders. When you lead them well, they...
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Karin Hurt and David Dye
How to Get Support You Need When Your Boss is Overwhelmed
Get the Support You Need When Your Boss is Overwhelmed "I feel like I'm on an island. My boss is overwhelmed and has canceled all of our one-on-ones. How do I get the support I need?" "Honestly, my biggest job right now is to keep my boss from freaking out. Forget...
How to Build a Better Live Online Leadership Development Program (video)
10 Things to Look for in Your Live Online Leadership Development If your business is faced with a newly-remote workforce, you know how vital it is to have strong leaders in place to get everyone the support they need, nimbly respond to dozens of competing...
How to Capture What You’re Learning From This Crisis Now
Capture What You're Learning From This Crisis In this time of extraordinary uncertainty and change your team has learned to quickly adapt to do the best they can, with what they have, from where they are. The COVID-19 crisis has us all quickly adapting to new ways...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development
Exploring the S Curve of Employee Growth In this week's Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney's new book, I was struck by how her model...
Civility at Work: How Do I Deal with a Mean Co-Worker? (video)
Civility at work is a team sport. What do you do if you're dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, "their momma should have taught them better" kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? ...
Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)
Save days, weeks, and even months of lost time with a quick check for understanding. What is a Check for Understanding? All communication involves a send and a receive. A check for understanding is a simple confirmation that the message you intended to send is what...
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Asking For A Friend
Karin Hurt
Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development
Exploring the S Curve of Employee Growth In this week's Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney's new book, I was struck by how her model...
Civility at Work: How Do I Deal with a Mean Co-Worker? (video)
Civility at work is a team sport. What do you do if you're dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, "their momma should have taught them better" kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? ...
Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)
Save days, weeks, and even months of lost time with a quick check for understanding. What is a Check for Understanding? All communication involves a send and a receive. A check for understanding is a simple confirmation that the message you intended to send is what...
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Leadership Without Losing Your Sole Podcast
With David Dye
Getting Small
The power of getting small, a small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. Where can you get small and be the leader you'd want your boss to be?...
Breakthrough Execution with Patrick Thean
What does it take to break through ceiling after ceiling and innovate during growth? All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. How can you achieve breakthrough execution? In this episode,...
How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive with Olakunle Soriyan
How do leaders use failure to thrive? Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short-circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by “what ifs,” unable to see past the challenges of today. Shift your perspective and...