October, 2025 - Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

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A Leadership Guide to Better Decision Making: How to Find the Right Balance to Choose Wisely

October 10, 2025

Leadership decision making is a process—a way of managing the competing factors that pull every decision in different directions. Once you understand the fundamental pulls and build a process to get better information, you can make better choices again and again. The best decisions balance several tensions at once. Because people need to buy in, good decisions balance emotional information with rational analysis. Because innovation is exciting but uncertain, good decision makers balance new ideas with proven data. And because…

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Your Attachment Style and Confidence: How to Understand Confidence and Develop More of It

October 8, 2025

Confidence at Work

Why are some people confident and others aren’t? Research shows that attachment style and confidence are closely related. Attachment style is the way you connect with others and your ability to build trusting relatinships. Attachment style develops early, shaped by how consistently and safely your caregivers responded to your needs. Over time, those patterns become internalized as your “relational blueprint.” As it turns out, how you form relationships with others has a powerful influence on confidence Three Attachment Styles and…

Unlock Better Performance with 5 Practical and Tactical Empathy Skills

October 6, 2025

Empathy in Leadership

Leaders who use practical, tactical empathy skills know that it unlocks people’s inner drive to succeed. Key Takeaways: Empathy Skills That Boost Performance Most leaders know empathy matters, but few connect empathy skills directly to performance. The truth is, when people feel respected, valued, and supported, they work harder and smarter. Empathy isn’t some soft skill or nice to have—it’s an essential performance driver. These five practical and tactical empathy skills help build trust, create psychological safety, and unlock better…

Empathy at Work: How Good Leaders Unlock Motivation and Performance

October 3, 2025

Empathy in Leadership

Think about it: how hard would you work if your boss didn’t understand or care about you? That’s the power of empathy at work. Key Takeaways Just like you, everyone wants to be seen and accepted for who they are and the talents they bring. It’s a fact: empathy is a universal human need. When managers fill a team’s need for empathy, people want to do better. When people feel empathy at work, trust rises, new ideas surface, and teams…

Leadership resources hub with practical tips for trust, confidence, empathy, team alignment, and decision making

Start Here for Leadership Resources: Practical Tips and Solutions to Use Now

October 1, 2025

Confidence at Work, Decision Making, Empathy in Leadership, Team Alignment & 1:1s, Trust at Work

Welcome! My blog offers for practical leadership resources to help you build stronger, more productive, and more resilient teams. Leadership is not innate. It is a set of skills that, practiced daily, promote cooperative, steady focus on what matters most. Good leaders know how to diagnose and tamp down distractions. They build a positive team culture where everyone feels respected and has the opportunity to grow. In this way, they inspire whole teams to collaborate and pursue even ambitious goals.…

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A Leadership Guide to Better Decision Making: How to Find the Right Balance to Choose Wisely

Your Attachment Style and Confidence: How to Understand Confidence and Develop More of It

Unlock Better Performance with 5 Practical and Tactical Empathy Skills

Empathy at Work: How Good Leaders Unlock Motivation and Performance

Start Here for Leadership Resources: Practical Tips and Solutions to Use Now