January 2018 : Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

If You Want to Explain Behavior, Look at Mindset

January 26, 2018

The difference between scarcity and abundance mindsets explains a lot about why we get the best or worst out of people. A scarcity mindset can result in some pretty awful actions, like those of Harvey Weinstein or Larry Nassar. An abundance mindset can enable the most extraordinary actions, like those of Malala Yousafzai, or the many heroes who went back into the massacre in Las Vegas to save more lives. If you want to inspire people to do more than they…

6 Steps to Better Outcomes for Talking to Employees

January 23, 2018

Leadership

An astounding number of managers and business leaders, 67% of them, report being uncomfortable communicating with their employees. That discomfort is about half attributable to the difficulty of delivering tough messages to employees, from feedback to company initiatives. It also includes a fair share of people who find it difficult to communicate even good news to employees. It’s difficult for many bosses to even deliver positive feedback like crediting others with good ideas (16%) or praising employees for their achievements…

I Have a Dream: 3 Ways to be More Memorable

January 16, 2018

Leadership

“I have a dream.” It’s rightly famous, perhaps one of the most memorable lines ever spoken. So, why do we remember some phrases and not others? More importantly: How do we say something in a way that other people, like our teams, remember our message? Martin Luther King knew exactly how to write so that people will remember the key message. Repetition, he knew, was important. And a lot of it. He’d used it in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,…

How Amazon.com Got Its Name

January 10, 2018

Leadership

Actually, I have no idea how Amazon.com got its name. Imagining how it got its name illustrates the power of an image–painting a picture in words. An image is something you can perceive with at least one of your five senses. It helps convey something abstract you have in mind in a way that is concrete to others. So, I imagine that Jeff Bezos goes to his marketing firm and says, “I need a name and corporate identity for my…

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If You Want to Explain Behavior, Look at Mindset

6 Steps to Better Outcomes for Talking to Employees

I Have a Dream: 3 Ways to be More Memorable

How Amazon.com Got Its Name