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How To Build A Community of Collaboration

by Karin Hurt | Jan 17, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Employee Engagement & Energy | 10 comments

What is a community? Can you have one at work? Should you? If you want more of a community feel, how do you create it? Whose job is it? Senior management? Frontline leaders? The employees? HR? Do programs produce community or do people? Today, I raise more questions...

Saturday Salutation: The Cairns of Strangers

by Karin Hurt | Aug 11, 2012 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 7 comments

This week, my husband and I scrambled up the boulders of Mt. of the Holy Cross one of Colorado’s spectacular 14ers. The trek was a beautiful journey of cairns, challenge and connection. The most tangible beauty came from the dramatic 360 views on this clear,...

Saturday Salutation: Postcard from the United Nations Youth Assembly

by Karin Hurt | Aug 4, 2012 | By Karin Hurt, Developing Leadership In Children | 2 comments

This quote set the tone for the 11th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations sponsored by the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, which I attended this week. The focus was on youth empowerment, and how social networking can be used to create change. “This is...