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Help Your Team Become More this Year

by Karin Hurt | Jan 3, 2014 | By Karin Hurt | 14 comments

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams At the turn of one new year, I remember my eyes were crossing and my neck was twitchy after 27 conference calls to finalize our New...

Finding The Perfect Gifts For Your Team: A Development Exercise

by Karin Hurt | Dec 4, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 12 comments

Jack gets very excited this time of year. He stumbles on a perfect gift that he knows EVERYONE on his list must have. It’s clever, and he finds it useful. Convinced his friends and family can no longer live without it, he buys a dozen or so. Watching the...

Leadership Development Made Easy

by Karin Hurt | Aug 20, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 16 comments

Leadership development used to be easier. Early in my career, my team was small, and I was in HR leading other HR folks. We all spoke the same language, and everyone believed in leadership development. Then a move out of HR to a team 50 times the size in a union...

5 Ways to Surface Team Conflict and Live to Tell About It

by Karin Hurt | Jan 22, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 6 comments

We all know deep in our hearts that teams need conflict. Conflict is “healthy.” Leaders and teams have been talking about Tuckman’s forming, storming, norming, performing model since the mid 1960s. Teams were storming long before that. We get it...

The Scary Secret to Great Meetings

by Karin Hurt | Dec 17, 2012 | By Karin Hurt | 2 comments

The first time it happened, I was devastated. After all the hard work on building relationships. All that investment in the team. All that transparency. All that work to create a level-less organization. Why had my direct report team started holding...