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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review You’re right. You deserve high-quality, carefully considered feedback in your performance review. Your manager should take this seriously and do it right. But often they don’t. It’s...

Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Feb 26, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, powerful phrases, Synergy Stack | 0 comments

Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results. One of the most frustrating aspects of teamwork is the feeling of futility – of spinning your wheels. You connect with one another, establish clear success criteria, get curious, and build on...

How Did Leadership and Culture Improve on the North Pole?

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Dec 13, 2023 | Asking For a Friend Featured, By Karin Hurt and David Dye, Courageous Cultures | 0 comments

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about...

Year-in-Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings

Taking a moment for a team year-in-review fosters curiosity and connection I don’t know about you, but we love a good “year-in-review” list. There’s something about looking back over the entire year and seeing what stands out. More than the...

4 Powerful Communication Strategies for an Unpopular Return to Office Decision

by Karin Hurt | Dec 1, 2023 | Asking For a Friend Featured, By Karin Hurt, Synergy Stack | 2 comments

How Do I Communicate an Unpopular Return to Office Decision #AskingForaFriend? “Hi Karin, we’ve just received word that after much debate and deliberation, there is a company-wide mandate that EVERYONE must return to office at the beginning of the year. I...