Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

We discovered this technique by accident in one of our in-person strategic innovation workshops. .” This is a way for employees to anonymously share their hopes and fears in a way that creates psychological safety.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 4, 2023

Establish a Courageous Culture of critical thinkers, problem solvers, and customer advocates in your organization with a Team Innovation Challenge or Executive Leadership Workshop. Ready to rally YOUR team for breakthrough results with Let’s Grow Leaders?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Over the years, I have used strategic storytelling workshops to help drive key messages, build teams, and enhance communication skills. Today, I share the story of how my interest in that began, and why I frequently use it in my leadership today. The Strategic Story Behind Strategic Storytelling Many years ago back in my HR [.]

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2012

It could be a workshop, dinner party, political rally, anything. [.] On Monday we return to our regular leadership fare. Today is a guest post from Curtis Fletcher. Developing Leadership Qualities in Kids Imagine almost any adult gathering you’ve ever attended.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2012

Years ago, I attended a diversity workshop with an exercise designed to get us thinking about labels. How we label ourselves matters. Sometimes we wear old labels without even noticing. The main idea was that the more we talked about our differences in a safe environment, the better we would understand one another and get [.].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 20, 2015

I was talking with LGL subscriber, David Oddis (below) after giving a W inning Well workshop for his organization. Are you interested in booking a Winning Well Workshop for your organization? Should I move to part-time while my children are little? Who should I groom to carry on my legacy? ” The answer may surprise you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In our leadership brand workshops, we call this “land in the and:” Be an interesting expert AND an interested connector. Admit when you screw up. “I’m sorry, I really screwed this up,” are powerful words when working to build trust.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 24, 2012

I have done the match-making and developed and led the workshops. I have developed and implemented plenty of mentoring programs over the years. The truth is, after 2 decades of living and leading in organizations, my feeling is, these programs typically don’t work. What I do believe in is investing time, energy, and commitment [.].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2023

The HR Director of a large engineering firm where I (David) was about to start a day-long workshop had taken me aside to warn me. When you lead them out of their complaint spiral, they’ll be more effective and the team will benefit from their insights. “He’s Bad…” “I’ve got to warn you about Phil.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Please contact me at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com if you would be interested in a keynote, workshop, or virtual training. Also please know that CEO Reads is offering a nice discount for quantity orders. I’m working on my Spring Winning Well Speaking tour.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Winning Well workshops, the keynotes, the 2017 planning, the filming, the travelling (well not that), the rehearsals, the concerts, the shopping, the cooking, the visits, and then the pause. To me the most remarkable part of Christmas is how everything goes from ridiculously busy to a full-on stop.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2014

As I prepared a trust workshop for a group from Nigeria, we shared ideas of what exercises would work best culturally, I wrote content, he made slides and tools pop visually. I was always involved and given a great deal of responsibility in decisions. We worked out a lot of plans together.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2017

Yesterday “Doug,” a participant in one of our Winning Well workshops, asked, “Karin, if I were to walk into your office right now with the goal of convincing you I’m a rock star, what behaviors would get your attention?”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2014

I recently conducted a workshop on trust and strategic partnership for a group of Nigerian leaders. You feel stupid on the inside and you wonder how badly it’s showing on the outside. Everyone’s looking to you for direction. A Story of Not Knowing. “I know one thing, that I know nothing”-Socrates.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2014

And so in lieu of my usual fare, I offer up a quote with which I will start my upcoming trust workshop to tee up our week on LGL. The hospital wing was filled with moms, dads and children all trusting strangers and one another do their very best in situations much more serious than ours. My family got to go home today feeling lucky.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Last week I was doing a Winning Well workshop with the United Nations, when one of the participants, “Pete,” looked at me sincerely and said, “I hear you, and all these tools sound good, and I’m going to use them. But what do you when Winning is impossible?” ” I waited for more. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2016

He has shared the stage with other notable business icons like Sir Richard Branson, Sir Bob Geldof and even presented a workshop in the presence of President Barack Obama. His new book is The Potential Matrix. Karin Hurt (Baltimore, MD) is a top leadership consultant, keynote speaker, and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2017

In our strategic Winning Well workshops and off-sites we always include exercises to get past the “Ugh, how can we get all this done?” I encourage you to proactively write a similar letter to your boss, and to ask them to pull it out mid year. It’s amazing how motivating this can be.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 14, 2015

We’d just finished a powerful workshop where each of them had identified ways they could make a bigger impact in the their organizations, in the world and in the women leaders coming up behind them. The room was filled with successful, competent, middle-aged women.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

More About The Diaper Genie Syndrome (an excerpt from one of our Winning Well workshops). Nothing crushes morale faster than feeling you don’t have a voice. This is one of the worst examples of gaming the score.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2017

I n Winning Well workshops, as leaders lower their guard and begin to discuss the real issues they face every day, one that inevitably comes up is what to do with people who get angry, upset, or offended when you truly haven’t done anything inappropriate. What specific actions using humility can rebuild these key relationships?

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JULY 8, 2015

I’ve found a half-day kick off workshop including multiple mentoring relationships can go a long way in launching them toward success. Is seldom enough. Even your smartest, most creative types can get a little twitchy when asked to do something outside of their day job. Establish Parameters: Guidelines are vital.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

As part of the workshop, we’ll focus on these 7 fundamentals and have dialogue about why it’s so hard to pull off, and what to do to increase your chances of success. I’m preparing now for a new emerging leader program for one of my clients. 7 Fundamentals For Building Real Trust with Your Team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I’m also booking keynotes and workshops for the Winning Well book tour this Spring. Pre-orders significantly help the positioning of the book in the marketplace. I truly appreciate the support of the LGL community in spreading the word, and buying some advance copies for your team. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2016

Please contact me at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com to learn more about how we can help your team through keynotes, workshops, or online programs. We also have a recently released our new Winning Well online course.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2016

Contact me at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com or 443-750-1249 to talk about a customized Winning Well keynote or workshop just right or your team or organization. For more, visit Winning Well on the web. Let us bring the Winning Well tour to you!

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you’re using business storytelling regularly, how do you assess the impact? How do you ensure you craft the very best stories that leave your audience not only inspired, but with an inkling of what to do next? There’s no question, stories […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I was recently asked to give a workshop for the National Speakers Association on SMART goals to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses. Listen to it. I did, and found myself backward mapping my entrepreneurial journey and found the START before SMART goal process. The Start of START.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2017

We first met Cathy when she attended our workshop on how to co-author a book. Winning Well Connection Reflection. Cathy is an amazing storyteller and story listener– and we enjoyed working with her audience to share our story in a recent webinar. Cathy lights up the room with her enthusiastic approach and warm spirit.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2016

When someone tells me our approach has turned their results around, or how our book was the first time they saw lightbulbs going off in someone they are mentoring, or when someone shares the impact our keynote speech or workshop made on their association or company, I get suddenly shy. “Err… thank you.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 12, 2015

The story he shared in a recent workshop I led stopped my heart. We were talking about leadership and “bringing out the best in people,” when John (obviously not his real name) confided, “I’ve never seen anyone do what you’re talking about better than my wife.” ” We smiled.

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