Confidence and Managing Yourself

How to build leadership presence through steadiness, judgment, and clarity — even under pressure. This skill is the foundation for a leadership style that enhances credibility and trust, especially in uncertain or high-stakes situations.

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Stand Up to Bullies: Keep Your Confidence, and Your Job

My article in Forbes offers six tips for standing up to bullies in the workplace. Are you silenced or confused at work? Is your best work often demeaned or dismissed? Does your boss make unreasonable or demeaning demands? If so, you may be the target of a bullying attack. It’s important to stand up to bullies to reclaim your confidence and recover a sense of power and control over your own job. Unfortunately, bullying is alive and well in the…

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Raise Your Optimism for Better Outcomes in Sales, Work, and Life

Use optimism for better outcomes in sales, at work, and in life. It also helps you feel happier and less stressed at work. Most of us know someone who is constantly having problems, often sick or injured, frequently or almost always complaining about something. Most of us also know someone for whom things almost always go well. At work and in life, things just seem to go their way. Does optimism–or pessimism–result from events or could our outlook on life…

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Lisa D. Foster, Ph.D. ACC  is an independent coach. As an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Lisa honors and abides by the ICF Code of Ethics.  All coaching sessions and consultations are confidential.

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