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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...

Team Chemistry: Leveraging Diversity to Drive Team Performance

by Karin Hurt | Sep 10, 2012 | By Karin Hurt, Employee Engagement & Energy | 0 comments

There is much good research on the characteristics of high-performing teams. It is possible to structure teams in ways that maximize performance (e.g. small number, shared vision, complimentary skill sets). A great resource for this is Katzenbach and Smith’s The...

Team Trouble? How to Build a Team One Person at a Time

by Karin Hurt | Aug 24, 2012 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Communication | 3 comments

My phone rang again this week. It was a front-line leader I have known for years having team trouble. “I can’t get them motivated. They just don’t seem to care like I do. I am not sure what to do, I’ve tried everything.” I have received...

Email as a Reflective Practice: Thoughtful Writing to Spark Conversation

by Karin Hurt | Jul 19, 2012 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 1 comment

Having a Reflective Practice means finding a deliberate way to stop and think. It’s a ritual you do regularly to pause, consider, and learn. So, can email be a good medium on which to build a reflective practice? Stop laughing. “Follow effective action with...