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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Hi, Karin, our company is growing so fast, I’m not even sure what our CULTURE is. I’d like to have some semblance of unity on my team, but I’m not sure where to start. How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! You can (and should) work to build a culture for your focus on influence.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Episode 236: When you find yourself frustrated, yelling to yourself or the world, “Don’t they understand?” the answer is likely “no, they don’t.” But you do understand – and these moments of frustration are an opportunity for you to lead and make things better. In this episode David shares severals ways to meet these frustrating moments with leadership, whether that’s leading up, down, or sideways.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Episode #232 – When issues or conversations come up in the workplace do you want to be responding not reacting? Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity. In this episode, Susan Freeman, Author of Inner Switch: 7 Timeless Principles to Transform Modern Leadership , lays out a transformational path for mainstream Western business leaders through ancient yogic

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Navigating Workplace Conflict is Getting Harder: Here’s What You Can Do The workforce has been through unprecedented change in the last few years—for better and worse. Stress, disengagement, quiet quitting, and mass resignations… Has all the rapid change led to more workplace conflict? Is conflict wearing us all down? At what cost? A Glimpse into the World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey Results We surveyed 5000+ full-time workers in over 45 countries and in all 50 United

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To lead through chaos, clarify what matters most and define reality for yourself, your team, and your manager. When you feel completely out of control, tossed back and forth on an ocean of rapidly changing priorities, reactive pronouncements from senior leaders, and an insurmountable list of priorities, it’s natural to expect your manager to solve the problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 25, 2023

Being unmessable with is not about having perfect circumstances but rather, who you are in the face of the real circumstances life throws at you. Being able to create possibility and make a difference under any circumstance, with anyone at any time, and never lose who you are is what Josselyne Herman-Saccio calls being UNMESSABLEWITH. How to be Unmessable With 14:09 Being unmessable with is not about being tough and it’s not about being impervious to people or getting rid of things that me

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Want to make an impact in your new role? Position your ideas at work so they’re more likely to be heard. “Hey Karin, “I was hired for my ideas and my extensive experience. I was told “We welcome your different perspectives, experiences, and ideas at work. That’s exactly what we need here! And now, I’m here. And I’m constantly hearing, “ahhh, I don’t think we can do it that way.” “Eh… we tried that before…” “

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

The numerous daily leadership decisions we make, both at work and in life, are small chances to make a big impact. In this episode Richard Moran, author of Never Say Whenever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference, offers a blueprint to help everyone understand why and how the choices we make, even the minor ones, are pivotal to professional development and career trajectory.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2023

So many leaders feel the need to be right to demonstrate competence or to feel like they have all the answers, but in most leadership positions this doesn’t fly anymore and leaders need to be wrong from time to time. The people you’re leading who are closer to the work will inherently know more about it than the leader, so the question is, can you learn?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 19, 2023

What to Say When a Passive-Aggressive Coworker Tries to Ruin Your Day Passive-aggressive behavior is contagious. It’s easy to let yourself react with frustration or even get passive-aggressive (or maybe aggressive-aggressive) yourself. Now you look like the jerk—not good. The best way to deal with a passive-aggressive coworker is not to get caught in their game.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, “Does work really have to suck this bad?” It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, our results will suffer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 22, 2023

How to Know If You Should Stay or Go One of the heartbreaking findings in the World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey was the number of people who said if they were faced with this workplace conflict again, they would quit, or quit sooner. Or as one guy from Denmark warned, “If you meet a psychopath at work, run!” If you’ve been following our recent research and writing, you know we’re working on a book to empower you to deal with conflicts better and faster (Harper Collins

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2023

Have you wondered how your past experiences affect your present success and future opportunities? Experiential Intelligence— the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences– helps uncover just that. While you can’t change what’s happened to you or how you’ve responded to it, within your unique stories are hidden strengths waiting to be discovered.

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MAY 21, 2023

My Feedback Isn’t Working…Performance Management for Repeat Issues You take performance management seriously. You care deeply about your team, their results, and their long-term career success. If you’re reading this, it sounds like you’re feeling a bit frustrated and stuck, because your well-intentioned accountability conversations aren’t fixing a repeated issue.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2023

If you find yourself caught in the day-to-day demands wondering how do I find time for strategy that allows me to invest in myself, be more effective, or invest in building my business, you don’t need a new productivity trick. The first step is to begin a deeper leadership journey and address four core factors – Tactics, Influence, Mindset, and Environment (T.I.M.E.).

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2023

Start a Conversation to Help Your Boss See Your Genius and Recognize Your Skills You want your boss to see your genius. But what if they don’t? How do you communicate your worth to get the recognition, support, and advocacy you need? And how do you do it without looking needy? One tool you receive when you participate in our foundational leadership development program is the Confidence Competence Model.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 24, 2023

Have you ever wondered what the most essential leadership competencies are and how they can be learned without taking up too much time? Whether you are in a formal leadership role or are a rising leader, entrepreneur, or changemaker driven by a desire to use your voice to create change, in this conversation with Reiner Lomb, you will get tips on how to positively influence key stakeholders, build trust, lead with optimism, ride the waves of negative emotions, mobilize people to take action and c

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 3, 2023

How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team When You’re Rarely in the Same Room “Hey Karin, I have a great team, but they’re spread out ALL OVER THE WORLD. I wouldn’t say we have a trust issue, but I would like to find some additional ways to INCREASE TRUST. What do you suggest? Today on #askingforafriend I’m taking you on a road trip to Virginia, on my way to give a keynote and talk about how to increase trust in a highly dispersed remote or hybrid team along the way

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to Deal with a Lazy Coworker and Still Be Seen as a Team Player When I was a little girl, my mom loved to tell us the story of the Little Red Hen. In this sweet little children’s book, our little, plucky, red heroine stays focused on her MITs (most important things) and gives her barnyard friends plenty of chances to pitch in. When a lazy coworker refuses her requests to help, she just keeps doing what needs to be done.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2023

Leading with an ethical compass may seem to be challenging in this time of deepening divisions and “alternative facts”, trust and authenticity grow more precious by the hour. More and more people find themselves driven to overcome the personal, professional, and social pressures of ignoring what is right in favor of what passes for ‘success.’ But what people want is t ruth in their decisions, a uthenticity in their relationships, and s olid ground for making tough, ethical choices in business an

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Capture Their Attention with a Message so Appealing They Put Down Their Phones and Listen “Karin, I’ve got to tell you. The executives at my company are so busy and distracted. There are just so many things going on. I find it really, really difficult to have an engaging powerful conversation to capture their attention. And I have SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The power of getting small, a small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. Where can you get small and be the leader you’d want your boss to be? Getting Small. What weighs just over a hundred million tons? I’ll give you a hint.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. As the year draws to a close, I’m curious. What are YOU NOTICING? About yourself? About your leadership? Your culture ? And, your team? I always find the end of the year an important time to stop and consider the themes. I love to reflect on what we’re seeing in our work with clients and within our own company at Let’s Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes New Managers Make. So many new managers don’t receive the training or skills they need to be effective, lead their teams, and achieve meaningful results. As a result, well-intentioned, hard-working new managers often trip into these common mistakes new managers make; unnecessarily frustrating their teams, diminishing their credibility, and curtailing their influence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

People are a lot like trees. You can’t make a tree do something, and the same holds true for people. No person brings the entire package to their work, just like no tree brings everything for every environment that you could possibly want. That’s not how any of it works. You’ll help your leadership when you can embrace and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Use These 3 Questions to Help Your Gain Clarity. When So Much is Unknown. When you’re dealing with uncertainty and change , it’s easy to feel like EVERYTHING is uncertain, but that’s seldom true. Help your team differentiate what they know from what they don’t, and empower them to focus on tactical, practical next steps. Today’s Asking for a Friend will help your team gain clarity in uncertainty.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Prepare for Workplace Conflicts. with a few “Go-To” Conversation Starters. Have you ever felt this way? You’re in the middle of a challenging workplace conflict, and you’re at a complete loss for words. You’re mad. They’re mad. Maybe you even say something you can’t take back. And then in the middle of the night, the perfect words come to you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

To Gain More Confidence Saying No at Work, Start with Your “Yes” It’s never easy to say no at work. After all, you want to be helpful, responsive, and a team player. And yet, every time you say “yes” to something or someone, you’re saying “no” to something or someone else. When you tell your boss, “Yes, I will work late tonight,” you might have to tell your daughter, “No, I can’t come to your tee-ball game.” Or, when y

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2022

Navigating the current environmental, economic, and political realities is challenging (yet essential). This is where The Leadership Pause can help. In this episode, Chris Johnson, author of The Leadership Pause gives you tools to sharpen a skill that leads to clarity of mind and heart, reduces stress, and increases resilience. It starts by accurately discerning your position, strategizing a plan, and only then moving forward steering through life’s challenges.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Better Recognition Starts With More Strategic Contribution. You care about your team and the work they’re doing. They’re working hard. And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. They want to know their work matters and that you (and your boss) appreciate all they do. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2022

Practical Approaches For a Better Clear the Air Meeting. Do you ever need to have a meeting to “clear the air?” This question came in from one of our recent leadership development programs. An HR professional working to support co-workers who wanted to resolve their conflict and show up for one another in a human-centered way. They wanted to have a clear-the-air meeting, but they wanted to ensure it didn’t backfire and make things worse.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2022

7 Simple Ways to Give Your High-Performing Employees. What They Need Most. This Asking For a Friend question comes up so frequently in our leadership development programs, particularly now with such a focus on retaining high-performing employees. “I worry that I’m not giving enough attention to my really high-performing employees, you know, the ones that seem like they don’t need my help.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2022

Compassionate leadership is not weak. Compassionate leaders are tough leaders who understand that they can be good to their people and deliver stronger results. In fact, taking care of your people actually leads to better results and creates sustainable commitment to an organization’s mission and values. In this episode, Donato Tramuto, recognized CEO, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist makes the case that compassion is a key leadership principle that drives trust, success, and in

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether you want more influence and to make a bigger difference within your organization or the world beyond, Weaving Influence CEO and author Becky Robinson gives you the roadmap. Too many think it’s a question of numbers—the more people you can get in front of, the better. But true reach is about expanding your audience while making a meaningful and enduring difference that has a lasting impact.

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