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APRIL 26, 2024

Strategies For Leading Through Change with Confidence “Hey Karin, I need some help leading through change. “I’m curious how this looks from your perspective?” ” “How can I best support you right now?” ” “What would your work day look like if we were to adopt this change?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And curiosity about how to approach your work differently. A few powerful phrases that can help. The Help-Seeker’s Script: How to Holler for a Helping Hand And, here are a few powerful phrases to help get past that feeling of overload by asking for help. We’re just lucky we have jobs.”

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Taking a moment for a team year-in-review fosters curiosity and connection I don’t know about you, but we love a good “year-in-review” list. How would your highlight reel compare to the year-in-review highlights from your team? And how do we get more of that next year? Who helped you most this year?

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APRIL 12, 2024

Episode 252: In this episode, David introduces you to 12 effective phrases to help you improve your communication skills and effectively navigate workplace conflict. ” and “I’m curious how this looks from your perspective.” Ask “What do you suggest we do next?” 11:33] Ready to empower others?

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APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process. If you jump into the discussion before establishing success criteria, how will you choose between different options?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Navigate political conflict at work with a combination of clarity, connection, and curiosity When you think of talking with people at work who have different political beliefs, your first response might be like that of many people we’ve encountered as we wrote Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict : “Yeah, no. Just like you.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We finished the description, and the committee chair thanked us for our input. Get specific to help you determine your approach. Do you wish people would see how hard you work? I wish people would know how much I _. I’d love to set up some time to talk to you about how’s Wednesday at 3?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2023

I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” This powerful phrase works well because you start by prioritizing the relationship, and (as we teach in our leadership programs ) “put people before projects.” I bet we can work this out.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. Rubin likes to say that if we treated relay races the way we treat our team members, we’d tell them, “I’m not paying you to stand here. They connect our work to something we already enjoy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. They look at the work they’re doing and ask “how can we” do this EVEN BETTER? How do we better leverage the strengths of every team member? How do we best communicate? How can we build deeper trust and connection?

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

What to Say Next After a Team Setback: Beyond the ‘F’ Word We’ve been there too—project outcomes that don’t meet expectations, missed deadlines, or even complete strategy breakdowns. ” “How do we ensure we don’t replicate the mistakes we made again?” How Can We Pivot?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You can lessen your frustration and help solve bad delegation by aligning expectations. It’s not what we need. We need to do this differently.” Why would he be satisfied with something that doesn’t do what we need it to do?” For example: “I recall last time we worked on a project like this. Why Do I Even Try?

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APRIL 5, 2024

I’m always stuck feeling like I’m the one to push if we’re going to get anything done. How can I get them to step it up? This clarity helps transform the abstract notion of “take initiative” into actionable, observable actions, which enables the person to to contribute more effectively.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Help Your Team Get Unstuck. In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67% said their manager operates under the notion “this is the way we’ve always done it.” 7 Courageous Questions Help Your Team Get Unstuck. What are we spending a lot of time on (e.g. What must we do differently?

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

But how many of these ideas are you implementing? In Karin’s just released TEDx talk, she shares why psychological safety is vital, but not enough when it comes to workplace innovation— and a practical technique to help you get better ideas. Sometimes, we say, just say bring us ANY practical ideas to improve the organization.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Use these powerful phrases to ensure every voice can be heard at work As all of us strive to create a more human-centered and inclusive workplace where everyone can feel comfortable being who they are, leaders have a unique opportunity to help voices be heard at work. Dillon, we haven’t heard from you on this topic.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. What’s equally difficult is helping your team recover, establishing a new normal, and figuring out how in the world you’ll get it all done with fewer people. Or, it could be you are worried about how to sustain momentum with a reduced staff.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

This resource will provide five tips to avoid culture conflicts and help global corporate and local entities work together seamlessly. Therefore, it is important to consider the following factors for different company locations: How important is the informal corporate culture? How is it communicated?

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APRIL 3, 2023

Show Up With More Confidence, Find Your Voice, AND Leverage Their Expertise, If you’re choosing to read this, we know you know the type. They offer unsolicited advice or undesired help. So how do you channel their expertise while staying confident in yours? Other times, a no-it-all is really just trying to be helpful.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross Cultural Leadership Challenges Recently, we were working in the Philippines when a leader asked me (Karin) how to help their team speak up with ideas or identify problems and potential solutions. A favorite of ours we learned from our Swiss clients is “Put the fish on the table.” Politely say “no”?

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Today we share a few go-to power phrases to help you navigate challenging workplace conflicts. We mean these phrases to be thought-provoking prompts, not a script. 12 Powerful Phrases to Help You Deal With Workplace Conflict. Thank you for letting me know how you feel. Rather, you acknowledge how they feel.

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APRIL 13, 2024

Ask, “What is the biggest problem we face? When you start with the question, ‘What is the biggest problem we face?’ How can we articulate that problem in one sentence? And, what’s at stake if we don’t fix it? ’ and ‘What’s at stake if we don’t fix it?’

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

When you embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they’ll work together to help you, your teams, and organization thrive. Tactical Questions to Help You Avoid “Injury”. Here are several vital questions to help focus on the tactical aspect of leadership strategy and tactics: Does everyone know what success looks like?

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MAY 12, 2023

author of The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram , provides an overview of Organization Development tools and frameworks traditionally associated with solving typical business challenges—infusing and enhancing them with insight from the Enneagram. In this episode Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D.,

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. How do you get there?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Have you ever worried that if you accept help you could jeopardize your credibility or not get the credit when things turn around? We are struggling. But my manager now wants to bring in all kinds of help: people from HR, training, and even my peers. Then, your manager decides it’s time to bring in external help.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Meredith offers practical approaches to help your team prepare for an uncertain future. The Skeptic Model for Helping Your Team Prepare For an Uncertain Future. I love her Skeptic model to help your team think through future scenarios for dealing with uncertainty and change. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal with Ambiguity.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. And they want to hope for a brighter future—that’s where courage and curiosity can help your team to thrive. On this team, we struggle together.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

via @KelloggSchool Bring people together so they can exchange ideas in person Jennifer Ouyang Altman (@helloinnerradio) on "Empty Questions" via @edbatista Democratizing Soft Skills Development – One Prompt at a Time by @Julie_WG Five Big Ideas to Help Get New Manager Development Right by @artpetty Write drunk. Edit Sober.

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MARCH 13, 2023

I wonder how many times she’s done that? ” These are just a few examples of credit-stealing examples we’ve heard recently. When we share this finding in our keynotes, you can hear always hear an audible, mmm hmm, sweep over the ballroom. We often hear, “What am I supposed to say? Thank you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Focus on Being Effective, Not Right Set aside right, and focus on how you can be effective with your difficult stakeholders. You might say, What if we set up a 15-minute check-in each week so I can give you exactly what you need? If we don’t have an important update, I’ll cancel it and send you a quick email.”

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APRIL 19, 2024

How do you push back without burning bridges? Establish Healthy Boundaries: Learn the Power of ‘No’ in Your Workplace 00:01 – Welcome and Introduction Today, we’re diving into how you can say ‘no’ in the office without losing your cool or compromising your projects.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

7 Lessons from the Holidays to Help with Navigating Change 1. When you’re navigating change, traditions can help your team maintain their connection with one another and their values. My (David’s) team would celebrate the start of a new year with a small gift of a nice pen that was a symbol of what we would create together.

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

Use These 3 Questions to Help Your Gain Clarity. 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. Invite your team to consider, “what do we know for sure.”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So how can you resolve these conflicts, maintain your team’s morale, and your leadership credibility? Reaffirm your commitment to the other person or people who asked you about it and look for ways to support them or help them with what they need. 7) “How else can I help you? We need to move on.”

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