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How to Navigate Unclear Expectations and Fuzzy Norms at Work

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Mar 25, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, powerful phrases, Synergy Stack | 0 comments

If it feels like you never received your company-issued secret decoder ring, you’re likely dealing with unclear expectations. Often, people have unspoken values or expectations, and there isn’t one “right” way to do things. Maybe your manager never clarified an...

Stop Right There! 5 Phrases that Crush Collaboration and Tank Teamwork

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Mar 4, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, powerful phrases | 0 comments

If you want better collaboration, eliminate these phrases from your team communication. You didn’t mean to tick them off, but here you are. Your words backfiring like a faulty engine, and now a cloud of awkwardness fills the room. You know collaboration matters...

How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden

by Karin Hurt | Feb 9, 2024 | Asking For a Friend Featured, By Karin Hurt | 0 comments

Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. Hi Karin, “I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. We are using the book and we’re reading it. The...

Help Your Team Do More: Stop (over)Talking and Start Doing

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Jan 22, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, powerful phrases | 0 comments

To do more, clarify who owns the decision and know when it’s time to move Is your team full of good intentions and meaningful conversations that don’t translate into action and results? Do discussions regularly bog down in analysis paralysis? Or do you have choke...

Assumption Busters: 7 Questions to Propel Your Team’s Strategic Thinking

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Jan 1, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye | 0 comments

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” That’s not just a lack of...