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7 Ways to Build Confidence in Your Employees

by Karin Hurt | Aug 13, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 15 comments

You see her talent and potential. She’s not convinced. She has great ideas, but seldom shares. She could be contributing so much more, you know it. But for reasons you don’t understand, she’s not ready. It’s crushing you to see her shying away...

6 Things to Do When You Don’t Have a Clue

by Karin Hurt | Jul 11, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 8 comments

Perhaps you convinced them you were ready, or maybe someone convinced you. Either way, you’re in a new job or staring at a new project and don’t have the slightest clue where to start. You feel stupid on the inside and you wonder how badly it’s...

Hillary Clinton And I Share This Concern

by Karin Hurt | Mar 26, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 18 comments

Hillary Clinton’s noticed a pattern in her decades of work developing men and women staffers. As she shared it from the stage at the conference I attended last week, I felt my eyes tear up. Her words articulated a concern I’ve had for years. “Too...

7 Sales Skills For Leaders

by Karin Hurt | Mar 19, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 15 comments

Sales gets a bad rap. No one wants to be that smooth-talking guy pushing a vacation club or spamming us on LinkedIn. By the way, if you’re that guy, please stop, I will never buy a program from a LinkedIn spammer. But the truth is, leadership and sales have a...

Confident Humility: The Conversation Continues

by Karin Hurt | Sep 16, 2013 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt | 13 comments

Two of our most popular conversations on Lets Grow Leaders involve the concept of confident humility. See both of these related articles: 9 Ways Confident Leaders Remain Humble and Can We Teach Humility?. The active dialogue from your inspired comments attracted...