Drive Your Career Success – featuring Ed Evarts
If you’re ambitious, talented, and ready to take your career to the next level, this episode is for you. Ed Evarts shares several principles of taking responsibility for your career. You’ll get practical ways to build a positive relationship with your...
The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback
Don’t let useless negative feedback sap your team’s motivation. Negative feedback is destructive and all-too-common. There are three common problems that erode the power of these conversations. My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager....
How to Ask for What You Need (and get it) featuring Heather Hansen
A good leader knows how to advocate for their team, their ideas, and the resources they need. No matter what you do, you’re an advocate and you’ll love this episode. Award-winning attorney Heather Hansen has spent over twenty years fighting on the battlefields of the...
How Do I Build a High-Performing Team (with Video)
Building a high performing team takes rhythm. In this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, we talk with Virg Palumbo, Regional President at Kforce. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. In...
The Hidden Cost of Retaining a Bad Hire
Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. We see...
How do I Teach my Team Critical Thinking? (With Video)
Practical Ways to Develop Critical Thinking on Your Team “Hey Karin, I want to develop critical thinking—I really do. I want to empower my team and help them grow. But …you would be surprised some of the decisions they make or things they do. How do I get...
What’s Going to Happen Next?
What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t...
Unlock Your Team’s Best Thinking
Have you ever watched a team member do something clever, solve a problem, or creatively improve a process, then ask them why they hadn’t shared it with the team? Too often, your team’s best thinking remains hidden. Their answer to why they didn’t speak up...
