The New Way to Support Career Development with Julie Winkle Giulioni
How do you support your employees’ career development when promotions aren’t immediately available – or they’re not interested in a promotion? There are so many other ways that employees want to grow. In this episode, Julie Winkle Giulioni...
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...
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....
Better Problem Solving: How to Solve the Right Problems (Video)
To Get Better a Problem Solving, Learn to Solve the Right Problems Better problem solving starts with reframing the problem. Karin Hurt talks with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, author of What’s Your Problem in this edition of Asking for a Friend. 1:11 Source of...
How to Build Trust More Quickly With New Employees
Build trust with new employees by answering these four questions. Whether you’re replacing talent because of the great resignation, or your team is growing fast because of your remarkable success, you know how vital it is to build trust quickly. Until...
Leading a More Resourceful Team
During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager...
How Do I Help My Team Make the Most of Failure? (Video)
Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of Be More Wrong, to discuss the journey of...
