Karin Hurt

What would happen if every member of your team came to work focused on finding solutions and creating better results?

Based on our ground-breaking new research in innovation and problem-solving, you’ll learn what leaders like you are doing to build more creative and solutions-oriented teams.

You’ll explore the root causes of FOSU (fear of speaking up) and techniques to turn your team’s fears and frustration into innovation.

You’ll learn techniques to navigate the elegant dance between clarity and curiosity and practical tools to help your team discover micro-innovations and share best practices.

The audience will leave with:

• Easy-to-use tools and techniques to empower solutions-thinking and customer-focused problem solving
• A clear understanding of what’s blocking everyday innovation in their teams
• Communication strategies to eliminate FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and encourage deeper dialogue up, down and sideways
• A plan they can apply right away
• I will inspire your team with highly-engaging stories of turnaround success and powerful tools from my executive roles and in my work with companies around the world.
• Your audience will leave with tools and techniques they can immediately apply with their teams.

As a leader, you’re barraged with problems every day, and sometimes it’s easier to take the path of least resistance. You don’t speak up because it might rock the boat. You procrastinate on a decision or don’t try that new idea because you’re afraid of failure. Or, you don’t invite feedback because you might not like what you hear. In these moments, you’re missing opportunities, you’re wasting money, and you’re eroding your team members’ trust.

Building your reputation as a courageous leader doesn’t necessarily mean making big, bold, game-changing moves. It happens every day, little by little, as you own your team members’ strengths, speak up, stand out, and dare to take appropriate risks.

This highly engaging keynote gives you practical methods to become a bit more daring every day for greater influence and impact-to become the courageous leader you would want to work for.

The audience will leave with:

• ​Inspiration to own their strengths and contribute at a deeper level
• Practical tools and techniques to present their ideas with confidence
• Techniques to prepare for and hold difficult conversations up, down, and sideways, including our I.N.S.P.I.R.E. approach to performance management
• Tools for gathering and responding to feedback

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Leading remote and hybrid teams is hard. Doing it during a time of constant uncertainty and change is even more challenging.  Now, more than ever, your managers need practical tools and techniques to create clarity and build a deeper human connection.

In this highly interactive keynote, you’ll learn 6 habits of highly effective hybrid and virtual teams, and practical tools and approaches to take your team’s performance to the next level.

Your Audience Will Leave With:

• An assessment of their hybrid and virtual teams’ strengths and opportunities
• Techniques to create a more inclusive and connected culture
• Ideas for fostering innovation, collaboration, and problem solving
• Practical tools to improve synchronous and asynchronous communication
• Tips for running better virtual meetings and one-on-ones.

This program is perfect for:

Fast-growing teams or organizations

Associations serving highly disrupted, fast-changing industries

Organizations going through times of significant change (e.g. mergers, restructures)

The audience will leave with:

• Confidence to navigate through the uncertainty with poise
• Communication techniques to keep their teams focused on what matters most
• Tools to think build critical thinking capacity and make better decisions
• Strategic questions to help uncover new strategic opportunities and insights

We will work with you to fully customize this program based on your biggest pain points. This highly interactive program will give your team an opportunity to surface and have candid conversations that address their fears, and give them to tools to navigate the change with more confidence and competence.

Do you ever wish your team had more energy, would get more done, or solve problems on their own?

It’s tempting to demand more, tighten control, and micromanage to get more results out of your team…but there is a better way.

WINNING WELL is a practical leadership strategy to achieve breakthrough results that really last. Get results while keeping your team (and yourself) energized, motivated and inspired.

Join award-winning author and Inc. Top 100 speaker, Karin Hurt as she shares real examples of turnaround successes, humor, and practical tools to guide you and your team through the art of inspiration, influence, and lasting impact.

In this program discover how to:

Mind the MIT: (the Most Important Thing) that contributes to consistent, breakthrough results

Play the Game: don’t game the score. Use data to drive, and not drown, your team

Own the UGLY: eliminate the most common productivity killers

Ditch the Diaper Genie: correct poor performance without drama

Put People Before Projects: quickly build a more competent and confident workforce

Rock Your Role: leverage your strengths to make a unique contribution to the organization

Channel Challengers: build better relationships – up, down, and sideways

Trust the Trenches: know the people closest to your customer or product and what they have to say

This program is perfect for:

• Overwhelmed managers ready for a breakthrough
• Those working to take their results and relationships to the next level
• Leaders working to build a high-performing, high-engagement culture
• Teams looking for practical tools and techniques they can use right away

The audience will leave with:

• Ways to stay focused on the MIT (most important things) that contribute to consistent, breakthrough results
• Tools to correct poor performance without drama
• Techniques to build better relationships up, down and sideways
• A better understanding of how to give each team member what they need most to take their performance to the next level
• Tools for building a more competent, confident team

Long term strategies to keep the team on track

Based on our best selling book: Winning Well: A Managers Guide to Getting Results – Without Losing Your Soul

Join award-winning author, Karin Hurt for practical leadership tools, tactics and strategies to achieve breakthrough results that really last.