Leadership Archives : Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

Announcing My Free Webinar: Supercharge Your Employee One-on-Ones

April 7, 2025

blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development, Leadership

This free webinar offers 12 tips to make 1-on-1s the most productive time in your week. One of the things my clients thank me for most are my tips for productive 1-on-1s. Now you can have these tips for free! Please join me for a free webinar entitled: Supercharge Your One-on-Ones: 12 Tips to make 1:1s the most productive time in your week. When managers first come to me for coaching, many of them think these weekly meetings are a…

What is Psychological Safety and How Does it Improve Performance?

September 19, 2024

blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development, Leadership

Psychological safety helps you catch and correct mistakes instead of retaliating, blaming, or shaming. It is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Psychological safety is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or blamed in any way for mistakes on the job. It describes an office culture where people accept that mistakes will be made, and that the best way to deal with them is to work together to catch…

The Advantage of Trust for High Performance

March 19, 2024

blog, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

Trust is the glue that sticks teams together. Without the advantage of trust, the smartest, most experienced team will become distracted by conflict and division. You need it to inspire your team, find consensus, and bring out everyone’s best efforts. Trust helps teams overcome the divisions, egos, and disagreements that splinter teams and distract from performance. Trust is a Virtuous Cycle The advantage of trust is that it allows people to calm down and focus on common goals. That’s the…

Build Better Relationships with Emotional Intelligence

February 7, 2024

blog, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Sales

Building better relationships is a skill we all need for success at work and in life. Some people are simply better at building better relationships than others. If your team lacks cohesion and members tend to remain siloed or in conflict, good news! We can all learn to become better at building mutually satisfying and fulfilling relationships. Naturally, due to childhood experiences and inclination, different people have different styles of relating to others. Psychologists call this your attachment style. Some…

Which Emotional Intelligence Skills Drive High Performance?

July 10, 2023

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

A guide to the 5 emotional intelligence skills that consistently show up in effective leaders. The research is clear: emotional intelligence is the number one predictor of leadership success. Up to 90% of leadership effectiveness is due to the leader’s EQ or emotional quotient. How? Mostly through these five emotional intelligence skills that show up consistently in successful leaders. Together, these skills create the ability to respond in the moment to others in a way that will result in…