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How To Ask Remarkably Better Questions To Encourage Great Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

How to Ask Your Team For Their Great Ideas If you want your teams great ideas, you need to do more than ask questions. In fact, most open-door policies are a passive leadership cop-out. They’re the founders of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm. Laura’s situation is far too common.

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212: Building a Courageous Culture that Facilitates Innovation and Problem-Solving | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

Top 100 leadership speaker. She provides leadership development programs for organizations around the world. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Engaging Leader 135: How to Lead Meetings That Get Results (and That People Want to Attend).

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213: Dealing with Challenging Employees when Building Courageous Culture | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

Top 100 leadership speaker. She provides leadership development programs for organizations around the world. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Engaging Leader 135: How to Lead Meetings That Get Results (and That People Want to Attend).

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Weekly Round-Up: Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs and Verizon's Ivan Seidenberg, Solving Manufacturing Comms Challenges, Leadership in a Digital Transformation, How to Podcast for Internal Comms

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Can You Hear Him Now? Eight years ago, almost to the day, Ivan Seidenberg retired as chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. Read more >>

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How to Prevent Redundant Performance Improvement Conversations

Great Leadership By Dan

About the Author Karin Hurt is a keynote speaker, top leadership consultant, and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in sales, customer service, and Human Resources. The author of Winning Well and Overcoming an Imperfect Boss , Hurt has been named to Inc.'s

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How to Get Employees to Care About Your Company

Let's Grow Leaders

Here I was ready to be a spokesperson and to wear it proudly, but I couldn’t figure out how! When 2 decades later I led the outsourced call center channel, it became obvious in about 37 seconds that these outsourced employees working for Verizon Wireless were wild about getting a hold of some VZW gear and would be honored to wear it.

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How To Be A Good Coach. How To Be A Bad Coach.

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by: Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback. Acting as a sounding board for new approaches. Identifying blind spots that may be holding the performer back.