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3 Reasons Your Team Building Activities are Tanking Morale

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Jun 24, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye | 0 comments

Stop Cringeworthy Team Building Activities By Avoiding These 3 Mistakes Done well, team building activities deepen connection and trust. They can get your team thinking (and talking about) what matters most. The best team building experiences make it easy to show up a...

Leadership Spine Poems as Reflective Practice: If Your Books Could Talk…

by Karin Hurt | May 9, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Employee Engagement & Energy | 8 comments

What does your bookshelf say about you? What if your leadership books could collaborate to support your growth? Spine Poems provide new perspective on your reading choices. The idea, take a quick look at your shelf, and use the spines to create a poem. The exercise...

Words With Teams: A Simply Insightful Teambuilding Exercise

by Karin Hurt | Mar 28, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 7 comments

I’m always looking for ways to keep remote teams connected. Remote work drives thirst for daily inspiration and touch points. Sharing words helps. Words uncover meaning. Words inform. Words create community. I emailed my larger...

Leadership Candy Hearts: A Valentines Day Teambuilder

by Karin Hurt | Feb 14, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 1 comment

Leadership grows with conversation. It’s Valentines day– How about spreading the conversation with a few candy hearts? I still get nostalgic for the doily decorated lunch bag full of cardboard valentines in elementary school, coupled with that sickening...

3 Easy and Practical Team Building Activities

by Karin Hurt | Jan 11, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 15 comments

It’s been a rather heavy week on Let’s Grow Leaders, talking about Courage, Fear, Transparency, and Chaos. So I am going to end the week on a lighter note. I had my team in town this week, working on business strategy and plans. We also made time the day...