Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 11, 2025

Episode 298: Are you a new manager struggling to boost teamwork and communicate in ways that truly move your team forward? This episode explores seven essential communication skills every first-time manager needs. These are real-world strategies that have helped countless leaders make the transition with confidence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2025

Productivity doesnt happen by chanceits cultivated through clarity, communication, and habits that stick. Key strategies to define and reinforce role-specific metrics and habits that promote productivity and high performance. Boost your teams performance through engaging tools and strategies. [00:15:12]

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

All communication involves a send and a receive. When you check for understanding, you are taking ownership for the effectiveness of your communication. I just want to be sure my communication was clear so you can explain this new strategy to your teams. Communication is a team sport.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. The Danger of Focusing Only on Strategy. This weekend I went for a long trail run.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Master remote team communication with variety and consistency. If you’re serious about becoming a better remote leader, you’re going to want to become a master in the art of remote team communication. Key initiatives, motivation, strategic priorities, updates, celebrations–there is so much to communicate with your team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2024

Employee retention strategies will help your team stick around through reorganizations, layoffs, and other corporate chaos. Effective employee retention strategies are critical to help your team come through the other side with confidence and enthusiasm for their work. They had a clear communication plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. When you can embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive. Does everyone know what success looks like?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this episode, former Silicon Valley communications CEO Sabrina Horn gives you the tools to lead with integrity, navigate the challenges that compromise authenticity, and transform your influence by leading from the truth. 33:57 – Why honesty is a great marketing strategy. Make It, Don’t Fake It. Connect with Sabrina.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

10:38] – The 5×5 Strategy for Communicating What Matters Most One mention isnt enough. The post Four Critical Communication Skills to Solve 90% of your Leadership Challenges appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Episode 292: Are leadership challenges making your job harder than it should be? The good news?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2024

Episode 259: In this episode, David Dye breaks down strategies for dealing with those chronic complainers at work. He also reminds us to use the strategies from his book, “ Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict ,” and gives us a sneak peek of what’s coming up in future episodes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There are three critical steps senior leaders must take to make this vision a reality: Visibly Model Comprehensively Communicate Intentionally Amplify Lasting Business Culture Change Starts with Senior Leaders Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. This is where a 5 x 5 communication plan is essential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2024

More Powerful Phrases to Respond to Scapegoating at Work Here are some additional powerful phrases and strategies to help you navigate being unfairly blamed, one conversation at a time. Not only will you protect your reputation, but you’ll also foster a healthier, more collaborative team dynamic—and that’s a win for everyone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 9, 2025

Youll discover a practical, people-centered communication tool that replaces fuzzy follow-ups with real resultswithout tipping you or your team into burnout. Heres what youll take away when you hit play: A concrete strategy to turn we should into we did without relying on willpower. Its not a people problem, its a communication gap. [03:28]

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2025

Heres what youll walk away with: A mindset shift and strategy to understand what really drives your manager (and their manager). Communication techniques to present ideas that actually get tractionbacked by data and story. Communicating ClearlyEven When Its Critical Feedback 8:45 Say yes to say no.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Your HR team should be vital strategic partners in building your HR strategy. Ensure every executive team member team has a practical plan to model, communicate, and build a cadence of accountability and celebration around those habits. I (Karin) spent years in HR at Verizon leading successful culture initiatives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? He explains how open communication is the key to creating a collaborative workplace that adapts and thrives. [09:08]

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

You know this: the best strategies fall flat without the right habits to back them up. The way you respond to challenges, celebrate wins, and communicate expectations creates the framework everyone else will follow. Before your team alignment meeting, communicate this initiative with your team and why it’s critical.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As a leader, your ability to communicate effectively directly impacts your success and your team’s performance. Learn practical strategies to present information that adds value instead of confusion. Understand how to align your communication style with your manager’s needs to avoid miscommunication and frustration.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

These eight strategies will help you maintain your team’s energy and morale when goals change frequently. Create a Consistent Reliable Communication Strategy. These first three steps take place before you communicate changes with your team. Create a consistent, reliable communication strategy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2024

While it may seem like a peaceful resolution, it can be a major leadership communication pitfall, shutting down meaningful collaboration. [01:13] It prevents resolution, dismisses perspectives, and misses opportunities for innovation in leadership communication and team dynamics. [02:38]

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2025

Communicate With Your Manager So youve found a compelling idea and want to dig deeper. How to Stay Curious Without Getting Completely Sidetracked The rabbit holeoh, its so easy to fall in. You want to stay focused, but it’s hard. Its not that youre unfocusedyou care. If your core tasks arent done, the rabbit hole can wait.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This section breaks down how to effectively set and communicate expectations. Mastering Strategies for Leading Gen Z Employees [27:54] 5 Key Questions to Build Stronger Relationships with Gen Z Employees From preferred feedback styles to pet peeves, these five questions will transform how you lead and communicate with Gen Z team members. [31:16]

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2025

Weve all been in tense conversations where emotions run high, and communication breaks down. This episode teaches you a simple strategy for using listening skills to transform conflict into connection and collaboration, improving your relationships at work and beyond.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 10, 2024

You’ll get solid advice on fostering trust and nailing communication with your manager. Mastering Micromanagement: Expert Strategies to Navigate and Negotiate Overbearing Supervision Understanding Micromanagement 00-00:30 – Let’s start with a deep dive into why bosses micromanage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Use a 5 x 5 communication strategy for the most vital aspects of the team’s work. That means you communicate critical messages five different times through five different forms of communication. People will internalize these key messages when you communicate with repetition and variety. Expect people to understand.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Can you please come and share your thoughts as part of my 5×5 communication plan? For example: Here’s how I’ve been communicating this key initiative and why it matters. We’re going to be working on this MIT (most important thing ) in our strategy session. Devon has been looking around at other options.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 13, 2025

With training, practiced techniques and strategies, and trust in the coaching process, your gift for helping others can make for a top-notch coach. Heighten communication skills. These are the personal qualities that make for the best coaches. Here they are: Keen sense of self-awareness. High emotional intelligence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Building a Human-Centered Leadership Approach [00:38] Discover how a human-centered leadership approach can transform your work environment, helping you master communication and accelerate team performance while building a career with respect and influence. [01:30] 18:55] Dive into the importance of mutual dependence in a team.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Decision-makers tend to consider multiple factors – beyond just the benefits of a new practice, they also weigh the financial constraints – before deciding to implement it within their organizations. Therefore, this paper examines how coaching can be applied cost-effectively in resource-constrained government institutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2021

Once you’ve emotionally prepared yourself for the unknown, there are more leadership strategies you can use to empower your team, restore confidence, and achieve meaningful results. You can help your team with: Consistent communication – use your 5×5 communication strategy (and maybe amp it up to 10 times or more).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2024

This ensures ongoing communication and no surprises during performance reviews. 17:30 – Wrapping Up David encourages you to grab his book for more phrases and strategies. 17:30 – Wrapping Up David encourages you to grab his book for more phrases and strategies. Try saying, “Thank you. What’s working?

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Unlike solving your problems for you, a coach helps you find the tools, strategies, and mindset to solve them yourself. Team Dynamics: finding yourself in the team, effective collaboration, professional challenges, different opinions, the importance of communication, and decision-making. Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), and GROW Model.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

Communicate. Communicate–consistently. Communication is vital to every relationship, but it’s easy to take it for granted. You might think everyone’s sick of you communicating that key initiative, but they’re probably just beginning to internalize it. 7 Ways to Protect Against the Great Resignation. Cultivate Curiosity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” Now, I’m not sure if that was a bungled HR communication strategy or a rogue leader, but either way, that level of transparency does nothing but create pre-mature angst. Before we communicate, can we be sure we’ve thought this through and can answer their questions and concerns?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2024

4 Examples of Workplace Conflict (And What to Say Next) This guide is your recipe book, offering you a few Powerful phrases and strategies needed to craft the perfect chaser to the biggest examples of workplace conflict. What communication channels are appropriate for what messages? “It seems that we see this differently.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 30, 2023

If you’ve been hanging around Let’s Grow Leaders or #askingforafriend for more than a minute, you know how much we love to talk about the importance of creating clarity and communicating clear expectations. #Asking For a Friend This week on #askingforafriend Steve Gielda of Ignite Selling, Inc., Start with the sales process.

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